[Face-research-list] Re: (CfP) CVPR 2026: 10th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)

Dear Colleagues, Please find below the invitation to contribute to the 10<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th>th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th> to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026. (1): The Competition is split into the below six Challenges: * Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge * Expression Recognition Challenge * Action Unit Detection Challenge * Fine-grained Violence Detection Challenge * Emotional Mimicry Intensity Estimation Challenge * Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Video Recognition Challenge The first 3 Challenges are based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the 4th Challenge is based on the DVD database; the 5th Challenge is based on the Hume-Vidmimic2 dataset; and the 6th Challenge is based on the BAH dataset. More details can be found here<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th>. All accepted papers from the Competition will be part of the CVPR 2026 proceedings. Important Dates:   * Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available: 31January, 2026 * Final submission deadline: 15 March, 2026 * Winners Announcement: 17 March, 2026 * Final paper submission deadline: 18 March, 2026 * Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 7 April, 2026 * Camera ready version deadline: 10 April, 2026 (2): The Workshop is a premier platform highlighting the latest advancements in multimodal analysis, generation, modeling, and understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments. Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal; uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics: i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis ii) facial action unit detection iii) valence-arousal estimation iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis v) face recognition, detection or tracking vi) body recognition, detection or tracking vii) gesture recognition or detection viii) pose estimation or tracking ix) activity recognition or tracking x) lip reading and voice understanding xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding) xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition) xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality) xiv) video, action and event understanding xv) digital human modeling xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition) xvii) violence detection xviii) autonomous driving xix) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases xx) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases xxi) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases Accepted workshop papers will appear at CVPR 2026 proceedings. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: 18 March, 2026 Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance: 7 April, 2026 Camera ready version 10 April, 2026 Chairs: Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK Irene Kotsia, Cogitat Ltd, UK Panagiotis Tzirakis, Hume AI Alan Cowen, Google DeepMind Eric Granger, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Marco Pedersoli, École de technologie supérieure, Canada Simon Bacon, Concordia University, Canada In case of any queries, please contact d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk> Kind Regards, Dimitrios Kollias, on behalf of the organising committee ======================================================================== Dr Dimitrios Kollias, PhD, FHEA, M-IEEE, M-BMVA, M-AAAI, M-ACM, M-TCPAMI, AM-IAPR Associate Professor in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Member of Centre for Multimodal AI Affiliate Member of Centre for Human Centred Computing Member of Centre of Predictive in vitro Models Member of Multimedia and Vision Group Member of Queen Mary Computer Vision Group Associate Member of Centre for Advanced Robotics Academic Fellow of Digital Environment Research Institute Member of Early Life Research Institute School of EECS Queen Mary University of London ========================================================================