*submission deadline*: March 16, 2026
*less than a week remains* !!!

Workshop: https://image-matching-workshop.github.io
CMT website for paper submission:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2026

*Overview*

The 8th edition of the Image Matching Workshop is co-located as every
year with CVPR 2026. Our goal is to encourage and highlight novel
strategies for image matching that deviate from and advance traditional
formulations, with a focus on large-scale, wide-baseline matching for 3D
reconstruction and pose estimation.

*Challenge*

The workshop will once again feature an open challenge hosted on Kaggle.
This year's challenge extends the previous year one with the purpose of
serving as a reference dataset with a larger life span. Teams with best
submissions will be invited to present their solutions at the workshop.

Challenge website:
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025-ongoing

*Topics*

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
– Formulations of keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep
networks.
– Application of geometric constraints into the training of deep networks.
– Large-scale evaluation of classical and modern methods for image
matching, by means of our open challenge.
– Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground.
– Leveraging additional cues such as semantics and mono-depth estimates.
– Attention mechanisms to match salient image regions.
– Connecting local descriptors/image matching with global
descriptors/image retrieval.
– Methods addressing adversarial conditions where current methods fail
(weather changes, day versus night, etc.).
– Integration of differentiable components into 3D reconstruction
frameworks.
– New perception devices such as event-based cameras.
– Other topics related to image matching, structure from motion,
mapping, and relocalization, such as privacy-preserving representations.

*Invited speakers*

– Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Google
– Nikhil Keetha, CMU / Meta

*Paper submission*

We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and
acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template (reviews are
double-blind, so please hide author data in the pdf) and be submitted to
the CMT site (linked above). Submissions must contain novel work and
will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two
double-blind reviews.

*Important dates*

– Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2026.
– Notification to authors: April 6, 2026.
– Camera-ready deadline: April 8, 2026 (hard deadline on April 11).
– Workshop date: TBC (June 3 or 4, 2026).

*Organizers*

– Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo
– Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague
– Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University in Prague/HOVER Inc.
– Luca Morelli, University of Trento/Bruno Kessler Foundation
– Fabio Remondino, Bruno Kessler Foundation
– Amy Tabb, USDA-ARS-AFRS
– Eduard Trulls, Google
– Kwang Moo Yi, University of British Columbia