[I-RIM ML] Call for Papers & Contest Participation – WasteVision 2027 @ WACV 2027

[bruno.vento]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions and participation in WasteVision 
2027 - International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring, organized in 
conjunction with WACV 2027, and in the Second International Illegal 
Waste Dumping Detection (IWDD) Contest. The workshop focuses on recent 
advances in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision for intelligent 
waste monitoring, illegal dumping detection, environmental surveillance, 
and real-world deployment. The increasing environmental and economic 
impact of improper waste disposal calls for robust, efficient, and 
scalable vision-based solutions capable of operating under challenging 
and heterogeneous conditions.

WasteVision 2027 - Call for Papers
WasteVision 2027 provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, and 
industry representatives to present and discuss novel methodologies, 
datasets, benchmarks, and applications for smart waste and environmental 
monitoring. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Image analysis for waste detection and classification;
- Video analysis for waste tracking and management;
- Computer Vision methods for illegal waste disposal detection;
- Multimodal systems for dumping identification;
- Remote sensing and UAV-based waste monitoring;
- Video and image analytics for pollution tracking;
- Datasets and benchmarks for waste and pollution monitoring;
- Applications and real-world case studies.
- Workshop Submission Rules
- Regular papers exceeding five pages are invited;
- Papers must follow the official WACV 2027 formatting guidelines;
- Submissions will undergo peer review through Microsoft CMT;

Accepted papers will be published in the WACV 2027 Workshops 
Proceedings.

IWDD Contest 2027 - Second Edition
The International Illegal Waste Dumping Detection Contest aims to 
advance real-time detection of illegal dumping events in videos acquired 
by fixed CCTV cameras, with particular attention to solutions suitable 
for smart cameras and embedded systems. Participants will work with the 
MIVIA-IWDD dataset, containing 500 videos:

- 250 positive videos:
- 125 static disposal events;
- 125 dynamic disposal events;
- 250 negative videos.

Positive videos include temporal annotations identifying the beginning 
of each dumping event. Submitted methods will be evaluated on a private 
test set using Precision, Recall, and F1-Score, with F1-Score as the 
main ranking criterion. GPU memory consumption will be used as a 
secondary criterion when methods achieve comparable performance.

Contest Rules
Participants can request access to the training data and annotations by 
contacting the organizers and specifying their team name. External 
training data may also be used. Each method submission must include:

- Trained model;
- Complete source code;
- Technical report;
- test.py script for processing test videos;
- test.ipynb Google Colab notebook for dependency installation and 
execution;
- All additional resources required to reproduce the method.

Participants are also strongly encouraged to submit a contest paper 
describing their methodology and results. Contest papers must follow the 
official WACV 2027 formatting requirements and, if accepted, will be 
published in the WACV 2027 Workshops Proceedings.

Important Dates
- WasteVision Regular Paper Submission: October 10, 2026 - 23:59 AoE
- IWDD Contest Method Submission: October 10, 2026 - 23:59 AoE
- IWDD Contest Paper Submission: October 15, 2026 - 23:59 AoE
- Decision Notification: October 30, 2026 - 23:59 AoE
- Camera-Ready Submission: November 15, 2026 - 23:59 AoE

Organizing Committee
Antonio Greco
University of Salerno, Italy
agreco at unisa.it

Carlo Sansone
University of Naples Federico II, Italy
carlo.sansone at unina.it

Bruno Vento
CINI - Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica, Italy
brunovento.it at gmail.com

For complete submission instructions, dataset access procedures, 
evaluation details, templates, and updates, please visit:

WasteVision 2027:
https://mivia.unisa.it/wastevision2027/

IWDD Contest 2027:
https://mivia.unisa.it/iwddcontest2027/

For further information, please contact:
wastevision2026 at unisa.it

We look forward to your submissions and participation in WasteVision 
2027 and IWDD Contest 2027.

Best regards,
The WasteVision 2027 Organizing Committee
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