WILD VISION: Reliable and Responsible Computer Vision in the Wild.

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November 26th, 2026. Lancaster Town Hall, Lancaster, UK.

Call for Papers

Computer vision has made remarkable progress on curated benchmarks, yet the transition to unconstrained real-world environments remains an open challenge. In practical deployments, vision systems face distribution shifts, dataset biases, adverse weather and illumination, sensor variability, domain changes, limited computational resources, and unpredictable operational scenarios, factors that can substantially degrade their performance and trustworthiness. WILD-VISION is dedicated to advancing reliable, robust, and responsible computer vision in the wild: an international forum where researchers and practitioners from academia and industry present and discuss innovative methodologies, benchmarks, datasets, evaluation protocols, and applications for the safe and effective deployment of vision systems. The workshop builds on the success of the Pattern Recognition Special Issue “From Bench to the Wild: Recent Advances in Computer Vision Methods”, which attracted more than 200 submissions, and seeks to consolidate this momentum into a dedicated research community. Beyond presenting cutting-edge research, it will foster critical discussion on benchmark standardization, reproducible evaluation, domain-aware model design, interpretability, efficiency, and responsible deployment. We invite original research contributions on all aspects of the field, including but not limited to the following topics.

Research Topics

Robust Learning and Generalization in the Wild
  • Domain adaptation, generalization, and transfer learning.
  • OOD detection and open-world recognition.
  • Robust visual recognition under distribution shifts.
  • Long-tail learning and class imbalance.
  • Dataset bias analysis and debiasing techniques.
  • Adversarial and certified robustness.
  • Self/Semi-supervised and continual learning.
  • Test-time adaptation and online learning.
  • Foundation models for robust visual understanding.
  • Vision Transformers and robust architectures.
  • Uncertainty estimation and confidence calibration.
  • Explainable, interpretable, and trustworthy AI.
  • Fairness, accountability, and responsible vision.
  • Benchmark design, evaluation, and reproducibility.
Vision Systems for Real-World Deployment
  • Vision-language models and multimodal learning.
  • Multi-sensor and multimodal data fusion.
  • Generative AI for robustness and data augmentation.
  • Image restoration, enhancement, and degradation modeling.
  • Synthetic data and simulation-to-real transfer.
  • Edge AI, efficient deep learning, and model compression.
  • Resource-aware inference and real-time vision.
  • Robust perception for autonomous systems and robotics.
  • Intelligent transportation and autonomous driving.
  • Safety and security critical vision applications.
  • Medical, industrial, environmental, and multimedia vision.
  • Large-scale datasets and real-world benchmarking.
  • Deployment experiences and industrial applications.

Submission Guidelines

PAPER LENGTH: We invite the submission of regular papers; manuscripts must be longer than five pages.

FORMATTING: Manuscripts must comply with the same formatting guidelines required by the main conference, BMVC.

PROCEEDINGS: All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings, together with those of the main conference.

PEER REVIEW: The peer-review process is managed through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT).

The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Important Dates

All deadlines are at 23:59, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE

September 27th, 2026.

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DECISION NOTIFICATION DEADLINE

October 20th, 2026.

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CAMERA-READY DEADLINE

October 30th, 2026.

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Invited Speakers

Petia Radeva

Full Professor.
University of Barcelona, Spain.

Petia Radeva heads the Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Applications (AIBA) research group at the University of Barcelona, advancing machine learning and computer vision for health applications. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pattern Recognition, an IAPR Fellow and ICREA Academia Fellow, and a member of the ELLIS network. Recognized with the Narcís Monturiol Medal and ranked among the top 2% most cited scientists in ICT, she has authored over 500 publications and led numerous national and European research projects.

Cees Snoek

Full Professor.
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Cees Snoek heads the Video & Image Sense Lab and the Human-Aligned Video AI Lab at the University of Amsterdam, where he is also scientific director of Amsterdam AI. His research focuses on making sense of video and images through deep learning and foundation models. Through public-private laboratories with industry partners such as Qualcomm (QUVA Lab) and TomTom (Atlas Lab), his work bridges academic advances and large-scale real-world deployment. Author of 300+ refereed publications and recipient of the Netherlands Prize for ICT Research, he brings a leading perspective on robust, reliable, and responsible vision systems deployed in the wild.

Organizers

George Azzopardi
GEORGE AZZOPARDI

Associate Professor.
University of Groningen, NLD.

g.azzopardi@rug.nl

Personal Website
Laura Fernández-Robles
LAURA FERNÁNDEZ-ROBLES

Associate Professor.
University of León, ESP.

lferr@unileon.es

Personal Website
Antonio Greco
ANTONIO GRECO

Associate Professor.
University of Salerno, ITA.

agreco@unisa.it

Personal Website
Bruno Vento
BRUNO VENTO

Post-Doc Researcher.
CINI, ITA.

brunovento.it@gmail.com

Personal Website

Contact Us

For any questions, issues, or further information regarding the workshop, please contact the organizing committee at the address below.

wildvisionworkshop@gmail.com