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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This workshop in conjunction with ECCV 2026, calls for high-quality, previously unpublished, works related to Computer Vision and Visual Culture.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 13:45-18:00

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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.

Schedule

8th

September

Tuesday

Afternoon - 13.45 -18:00 (UTC+2 / CEST)

  • 13:45 - 13:50

    Welcome, Stuart James (Durham University)

  • 13:50 - 14:25

    Keynote

  • "Imagining Forward Remembering Back: Artificial Intelligence, Human Pasts and the Futures" Prof. Anna Foka (Uppsala University)

  • 14:25 - 15:15

    Oral Session 1

    Session Chair: Piera Riccio (University of Amsterdam)

  • (Technical) "Lot Machine: Multimodal Lot Extraction from Auction Catalogs" Mathias Zinnen (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Alisha Mund (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Sabine Lang (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Lukas Hüttner (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Thomas Gorges (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Vincent Christlein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

  • (Technical) "OCR-Based Field Extraction for Archaeological Pottery Metadata: The CENTURIA Dataset" Gissu Valentina Naghavi (Technische Universität Wien), Dominik Hagmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Martin Kampel (TU Wien Vienna University of Technology), Irene Ballester (Technische Universität Wien)

  • (Uses) "Disagreement-Preserving Evaluation for Art Attribution" Rob Sneiderman

  • (Uses) "Broken Images, Original Machines: Glitch in Diffusion Models" Ruchika Gupta (Michigan State University), Aarav Gupta (University of San Francisco)

  • 15:15-16:15

    Coffee and Poster Session (60 Mins)

    Accepted Posters (in addition to talks)

    (Technical) "Uncertainty-Aware Art-Historical Dating with Vision–Language Models" Stefanie Schneider (Phillips-Universität Marburg), Peter Bell (Phillips-Universität Marburg)

    (Technical) "Automated Goldsmith's Mark Retrieval in Silverware" Atmik Tiwari (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Vincent Christlein (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Mark Fichtner, Freya Gohlke, Birgit Schübel, Theresa Witting, Heike Zech, Mathias Zinnen (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

    (Technical) "Benchmarking Vision-Language and Multimodal Language Models For Cultural Heritage: An Analysis of Christian Iconography Classification" Gianmarco Spinaci (University of Bologna), Lisandra S. Costiner (Utrecht University), Lukas Klic (Harvard University center for Italian renaissance studies), Giovanni Colavizza (Copenhagen University)

    (Technical) "Style or Signature? Artist-Disjoint Evaluation of Style Classification in Frozen Vision Embeddings" Rory Ashton (University of Edinburgh)

    (Technical) "SynGallery: A Synthetic Gallery of Real Paintings for Instance-Level Artwork Recognition" Patryk Bartkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan), Jakub Markil (Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan), Bartosz Kotrys (Articollect), Dominik Michels (KAUST), Soren Pirk (Kiel University), Wojtek Palubicki (AMU)

    (Technical) "TinTin DCU Benchmark: Page-level Comic Narrative Understanding" Mathijs van Sprang (University of Amsterdam), Nanne Van Noord (University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam)

    (Technical) "Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs" Fatemeh Behrad (KU Leuven), Tinne Tuytelaars (KU Leuven), Johan Wagemans (KU Leuven)

    (Technical) "Full-Page Chinese Calligraphy Character Detection: A Dataset and Benchmark with Integrity-Preserving Tiling and SDAC-Det" Tiancheng LIU (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Nanne Van Noord (University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam), Chen Liang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Kang Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))

    (Technical) "HistReNeRF: Historic Image Relocalisation within Contemporary Neural Radiance Field Reconstructions" Benjamin T Hughes (Durham University), Stuart James (Durham University)

    (Technical) "MMArt: A Multi-Perspective Multimodal Dataset for Visual Art Understanding" Shuai Wang (University of Amsterdam), Wangyuan Ding (University of Amsterdam), Yixian Shen (University of Amsterdam), JIA-HONG HUANG (University of Amsterdam), Stevan Rudinac (University of Amsterdam), Monika Kackovic (University of Amsterdam), Nachoem Wijnberg (University of Amsterdam), Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam)

  • 16:15 - 17:15

    Oral Session 2

    Session Chair: Amanda Wasielewski (Uppsala University)

  • (Technical) "Integrating Multi-view Multi-light Surface Reconstruction into Cultural Heritage Workflows" Baptiste Brument (IRIT), Robin Bruneau (University of Zurich), Benjamin Coupry (Irit), Vincent Demoulin, Jean Mélou (IRIT), Antoine Laurent, Fabien Castan (The Mill), Jean-Denis Durou (IRIT), Lilian Calvet (University of Zurich)

  • (Technical) "HTexBench: Benchmarking Generative Inpainting for Heritage Textile Restoration" Panagiotis Giannakeris (CERTH/ITI), Ilias Koulalis (CERTH/ITI), Konstantinos Ioannidis (Centre for research and technology hellas), Stefanos Vrochidis (CERTH/ITI)

  • (Technical) "Fragment-Aware Vision Transformers for Fresco-Fragment Style Classification" Sara Miketek (University of Venice), Biagio Barchielli, Nadeem Iqbal Kajla (National University of Ireland, Galway), Sinem Aslan (University of Milan)

  • (Technical) "AmalthAI: An Open-Source Computer Vision Platform for Cultural Heritage" Christos Chatzisavvas (Democritus University of Thrace), Stelios Alvanos (Dimocritus University of Thrace), Efstratios Politis (Athena Research and Innovation Centre), Panagiotis Rigas (University of Athens), Thomas Pappas (Athena Research and Innovation Centre), Ioannis Giannoukos (National Technical University of Athens), Nikolaos Mitianoudis (Democritus University of Thrace), Agata Ulanowska (Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw), Katarzyna Żebrowska (University of Warsaw), Nazarij Buławka (University of Warsaw), Christina Margariti (Athena Research and Innovation Centre), George Pavlidis (Athena Research Center), Chairi Kiourt (Athena Research and Innovation Centre), Anestis Koutsoudis (Clepsydra Digitisation Lab), Vassilis Katsouros (Athena Research and Innovation Centre), George Ioannakis (Athena Research and Innovation Centre)

  • 17:15 - 17:50

    Keynote

  • 17:50 - 18:00

    Award & Closing Remarks, Stuart James (Durham University)

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