Programs

The work we run, and the editions we have held so far.

Everything we do is built around one goal: making it possible for researchers in and from developing countries to do computer vision research, publish it, and be part of the international community that reviews and builds on it.

Our programs

CV4DC Workshop

Annual, since 2024

Our flagship program: a full-day workshop co-located with a major computer vision conference, featuring invited talks, oral and poster presentations, a panel discussion and a mentoring session.

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CV4DC Challenge

Introduced in 2026

A community challenge on resource-constrained computer vision for developing-region applications, with results presented at the annual workshop.

See the 2026 challenge →

Mentoring Session

Part of every edition

A dedicated session at each workshop where junior researchers receive one-on-one feedback on their work and career paths from senior researchers in the field.

See the 2026 program →

Workshop editions

2026

3rd CV4DC WorkshopUpcoming

in conjunction with ACCV 2026 · Osaka, Japan · December 14, 2026

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2025

2nd CV4DC Workshop

in conjunction with ICCV 2025 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA · October 19, 2025

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2024

1st CV4DC Workshop

in conjunction with ACCV 2024 · Hanoi, Vietnam · December 8, 2024

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Research topics we highlight

Past editions have featured disease detection in low-quality medical scans, road-safety assessment from low-cost cameras, crop disease and agricultural monitoring, livestock health monitoring, school mapping for connectivity, remote sensing, and OCR for underrepresented scripts — alongside method work on efficient architectures, data-efficient and self-supervised learning, robustness to domain shift, and multilingual vision–language models.

Want to take part?

Calls for papers, challenge details and important dates for the current edition are published on the workshop site.

Go to the CV4DC 2026 workshop