Call for Papers: Workshop Foundation Models for Vision Applications (FVMA 2026)

Call for Papers of the 1st edition of the workshop Foundation Models for Vision Applications (FVMA 2026).
The workshop is held as part of the 28th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2026), which will take place from the 17th to the 22nd of August in Lione (France).

Among the organizers Antonio Costantino Marceddu of the DAUIN.

Deadline: 24 April 2026

Topics
In recent years large scale visual-language models have seen an explosive rise in capability. As general models they offer exceptional performance on a range of downstream tasks not explicitly trained for. By necessity, the full capability of an architecture is often only expressed in terms of zero-shot performance on benchmark dataset tasks, such as ImageNet classification or ADE20K segmentation. The performance, generality, comprehension and prompt-sensitivity of the architectures in specific vision fields, such as biometrics or medical imaging, has room for exploration.

The workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Dataset development and curation
- Metrics and benchmarking methodologies (performance, robustness, and fairness, etc.)
- Innovative applications and methodological advances for exploiting visual–language models
- Multimodal learning and representation (for example, synergy between vision and language)
- Biometric analysis and human–computer interaction
- Biomedical imaging and bioinformatics
- Vehicular traffic perception and analysis
- Image, speech, and video processing
- Explainable and privacy-preserving artificial intelligence.

More information
- Contact: Antonio Costantino Marceddu
- Link to the Workshop