📣 Call for Challenges — AVSS 2026

The 22th International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS 2026) (Lecce – Italy, 1-2 September 2026) invites proposals for Challenges to be held in conjunction with the main conference.

Challenges are what make a conference truly come alive, adding energy, excitement, and plenty of conversation throughout the conference. They turn great ideas into real-world tests, where methods are compared, results are shared, and progress happens together.

By working on shared datasets with clear tasks and evaluation rules, challenges support reproducible research, fair benchmarking, and hands-on experimentation. They also bring academia, industry, and public institutions to the same table—collaborating on concrete problems inspired by real needs.

AVSS 2026 is looking for bold and engaging challenges that showcase cutting-edge research while tackling important surveillance, safety, and security topics. Help us make AVSS 2026 more dynamic, interactive, and fun than ever!

👉 Got an idea? Let’s challenge the community!

🎯 Scope and Topics of Interest

We welcome challenge proposals aligned with (but not limited to) the following AVSS 2026 themes:

• Image and Video Analytics

• Model Security, Privacy, Fairness, and Robustness

• Multimodal Sensor Fusion and AI-driven Situational Awareness

• IoT and Signal Analytics

• Environmental and Ecological Surveillance

• Systems and Applications

• Medical Imaging for Safety, Monitoring, and Security

• Healthcare and Assisted Living Environments

• Smart Cities and Infrastructure Monitoring

• Retail Analytics

🌟 Why Challenges Matter at AVSS

Challenges are more than competitions — they are engines of community building and scientific progress:

• 🔬 Promote reproducibility through shared datasets and evaluation protocols

• ⚖️ Enable fair and transparent comparison of methods

• 🚀 Accelerate innovation by focusing efforts on well-defined, impactful problems

• 🤝 Bridge academia and industry, often leveraging real-world data and constraints

• 🎓 Engage students and early-career researchers, making AVSS more inclusive and dynamic

By hosting challenges, AVSS 2026 aims to energize the conference, attract broader participation, and stimulate meaningful discussions that extend well beyond the event itself.

📄 Challenge Proposal Guidelines

Challenge proposals should include:

1. Title and short description of the challenge

2. Motivation and relevance to AVSS topics and community

3. Task definition and expected outcomes

4. Dataset description (existing or to be released, including access conditions)

5. Evaluation protocol and metrics

6. Organizing team (with brief bios and affiliations)

7. Planned format (online phase, leaderboard, workshop session, etc.)

8. Expected number of participants and outreach plan

🗓 Important Dates and Submission

• Challenge proposal submission deadline: 15/02/2025

• Notification of acceptance: 28/02/2025

• Challenge launch: 04/03/2025

• Final results & presentations at AVSS 2026

Challenge proposals should be submitted via  email at challenges@avss2026.org

📬 Contact

For inquiries, please contact the AVSS 2026 Challenge Chairs at: challenges@avss2026.org