IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) provides a forum for computer vision researchers working on practical applications and innovative algorithms to share their latest developments. WACV 2025 solicits high-quality, original submissions describing research in computer vision, with a particular emphasis on systems and applications with significant, interesting vision components. 

Application areas include, but are not limited to: 

    Agriculture 
    Animals and Insects 
    Arts, games, and social media 
    Autonomous driving 
    Biomedical, healthcare, and medicine 
    Commercial and retail 
    Education 
    Embedded sensing and real-time techniques 
    Environmental monitoring, climate change, and ecology 
    Food science and nutrition 
    Psychology and cognitive science 
    Remote sensing 
    Robotics 
    Smartphones and end-user devices 
    Social good 
    Structural engineering and civil engineering 
    Virtual and augmented reality 
    Visualization 

Authors are also encouraged to submit more traditional computer vision algorithms papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 

    3D computer vision 
    Adversarial learning, adversarial attack, and defense methods 
    Biometrics, face, gesture, and body pose 
    Computational photography 
    Generative models for image, video, 3D, etc. 
    Datasets and evaluations 
    Explainable, fair, accountable, privacy-preserving, and ethical computer vision 
    Image recognition and understanding (object detection, categorization, segmentation, scene modeling, visual reasoning) 
    Low-level and physics-based vision 
    Machine learning architectures, formulations, and algorithms (including transfer, low-shot, semi-, self-, and unsupervised learning) 
    Video recognition and understanding (tracking, action recognition, etc.) 
    Vision + language and/or other modalities 

All submissions will be handled electronically through CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WACV2025

Papers can be submitted to either the applications or the algorithms tracks, which will have different review criteria. Applications papers will be evaluated on systems-level innovation, novelty of the domain and comparative assessment. Algorithms papers will be evaluated according to the standard conference criteria including algorithmic novelty and quantified evaluation against current, alternative approaches.

Authors should follow the Author Guidelines and use the WACV 2025 Author Kit (Overleaf template, ZIP archive), when preparing their papers for review.