5th Workshop on Maritime Computer Vision (MaCVi)
MaCVi @ WACV 2027
Call for Papers
We invite original research and applied work on computer vision in maritime environments. Submissions may address underwater, surface, aerial, coastal, offshore, or remote-sensing settings, and may focus on algorithms, multimodal systems, datasets, evaluation, deployment, or scientific applications.
Archival papers are expected to follow the official WACV 2027 workshop formatting and review requirements. We currently anticipate anonymous submissions of up to 8 pages excluding references, with supplementary material permitted. Submissions and reviews will run through OpenReview. The workshop submission link, template, registration requirements, and final publication instructions will be posted here.
Topics of Interest
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Object detection, recognition, tracking, and re-identification in maritime scenes
- Semantic, instance, and panoptic segmentation above and below water
- Underwater image and video restoration, enhancement, and color correction
- Surface-vessel perception, obstacle detection, collision avoidance, and navigation
- Aerial and remote-sensing vision for search and rescue, monitoring, and mapping
- Marine animal, habitat, pollution, and environmental monitoring
- Multimodal learning and sensor fusion using optical, thermal, sonar, radar, depth, acoustic, or AIS data
- Visual localization, mapping, SLAM, heading estimation, and state estimation
- Low-light, adverse-weather, turbid-water, and long-range perception
- Domain adaptation, transfer learning, self-supervised learning, and few-shot learning
- Foundation models, vision-language models, and generalist maritime perception
- Synthetic data, simulation, generative models, and sim-to-real transfer
- Embedded, efficient, and real-time vision for maritime robots and sensor platforms
- Reliability, uncertainty, explainability, robustness, and safety evaluation
- Datasets, benchmarks, annotation methods, evaluation protocols, and reproducibility
- Field deployments and applications of maritime computer vision
Important Dates for Papers
The paper submission deadline is 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12). The camera-ready deadline is 23:59 Pacific Time (PST, UTC−8), as required by WACV.
| Event | Date |
|---|---|
| Paper submission deadline | October 16, 2026, 23:59 AoE |
| Paper acceptance notification | October 30, 2026 |
| Accepted-paper metadata handoff to WACV / IEEE (organizers) | November 2, 2026 |
| Camera-ready deadline for archival papers | November 20, 2026, 23:59 Pacific Time |
| Workshop | January 4 or 5, 2027; exact workshop day to be announced |
All authors need an active OpenReview account. Please create or activate profiles well before submitting; profile activation can take up to two weeks. The November 2 metadata handoff is handled by the organizers; accepted authors must complete any requested corrections beforehand.
Challenge entries follow the separate challenge schedule. WACV's fixed publication deadlines are listed in the official workshop information.