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Vision for Art and Culture
(VISART VIII)

Workshop at the European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV)

Malmö (Sweden), September 2026

Call for Papers

Following the success of previous editions of the Workshop on VISion for ART (2012, ’14, ’16, ’18, ’20, ’22, ’24), we present VISART VIII. VISART continues as a forum for the presentation and publication of Computer Vision techniques for the understanding of art and culture. The growth of generative art, large-scale digitisation, and digitally born artworks underscores the importance of research at the intersection of Computer Vision and art. This includes methods for reasoning about visual material, connecting vision and language, and structuring data across art and cultural heritage.

As with the prior edition, VISART VIII offers two tracks:

  1. Computer Vision for Art & Culture - technical work (standard ECCV submission, 14 page excluding references, appearing in proceedings)
  2. Uses and Reflection of Computer Vision for Art (Extended abstract, 4 page, excluding references, NOT appearing in proceedings)

The recent explosion in the digitisation of artworks highlights the concrete importance of application in the overlap between CV and art; such as the automatic indexing of databases of paintings and drawings, or automatic tools for the analysis of cultural heritage. Such an encounter, however, also opens the door both to a wider computational understanding of the image beyond photo-geometry, and to a deeper critical engagement with how images are mediated, understood or produced by CV techniques in the `Age of Image-Machines' (T. J. Clark). Submissions to our first track should consist of technical papers consistent with ECCV style; whereas, our second track encourages critical essays or extended abstracts from art historians, artists, cultural historians, media theorists and computer scientists.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in the fields of computer vision and the digital humanities with art and cultural historians and artists, to promote interdisciplinary collaborations, and to expose the hybrid community to cutting-edge techniques and open problems on both sides of this fascinating area of study.

This workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2026, calls for high-quality, previously unpublished, works related to Computer Vision and Visual Culture. Submissions for both tracks should conform to the ECCV 2026 proceedings style and will be double-blind peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. However, extended abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. 

Papers must be submitted online through the OpenReview submission system at: 

https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/ECCV/2026/Workshop/VISART

TOPICS include but are not limited to the follwing:

  • Art History and CV
  • Multimodality and Visual Culture

  • Video, film and moving image analysis

  • Interactive XR/Interfaces for GLAMs

  • Datasets and benchmarks for arts & culture

  • 3D reconstruction in heritage and archaeology

  • Cultural heritage and CV

  • Generative art practices
  • Critical perspectives on computer vision and art
  • Search and Discover in arts & culture
  • Vision Language models for arts & culture
  • Human in the loop for cultural analysis

Author Guidelines:

Paper formatting: Papers are limited to 14 pages (for full) or 4 pages (for Extended Abstracts), including figures and tables, in the LNCS style of Springer. Additional pages containing only cited references are allowed. Please download the ECCV 2026 Author Kit for detailed formatting instructions. Note also that the template has changed since ECCV 2026. Authors must thus use this new template instead of templates from older conferences.

The ECCV 2026 Author Kit for LaTeX can be obtained in three ways:

Authors wishing to write their paper in Microsoft Word must use the official Springer LNCS Word template and ensure that their submission is formatted to match the formatting set forth in the ECCV 2026 Author Kit as closely as possible.

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Important Dates

  • Full & Extended Abstract Paper Submission:

    24th June 2026 10:00 PM UTC

    1st July 2026 10:00 PM UTC

  • Notification of Acceptance:

    5th August 2026

  • Camera-Ready Paper Due:

    15th August 2026 10:00PM CET

  • Workshop:

    8th September 2026

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Keynotes

Prof. Anna Foka

Bio

Anna Foka is Professor of Digital Humanities at Uppsala University and the cluster PI of the Wallenberg National research cluster AI Futures of Culture and Memory. Anna Foka is National Mentor for AI in the Swedish South Korea Collaboration in Research and Innovation Programme (SKERIC) Professor Foka’s work focuses on the cultural and ethical dimensions of artificial intelligence, digital heritage, and interdisciplinary methods across the humanities and technology. She has published widely on digital transformation in museums, archives, and cultural institutions, and currently leads several international projects on AI, sustainability, and cultural knowledge infrastructures. Her latest books are AI and Image (Cambridge University Press) and Evolving Perspectives in Digital Classics (Routledge)

Abstract

The opening keynote explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping not only the way societies imagine and visualise the future but also how we understand the past and define humanity itself. Drawing from cultural heritage, digital humanities, and critical AI studies, it argues that the technologies driving automation and prediction are deeply entangled with inherited cultural narratives, biases, and epistemologies. By tracing the historical continuities between past, visual imaginaries of intelligence and today’s algorithmic systems, the lecture highlights the need for interdisciplinary approaches that foreground ethics, creativity, and global diversity. Ultimately, it asks how the humanities can help us reclaim agency and meaning in an increasingly automated world; turning AI from an object of control into a shared space of interpretation and reflection.

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