The eighteenth International Conference on Machine Vision Applications will be held at ACT CITY Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan from July 23 through 25, 2023. The conference is sponsored by the MVA Organization, co-organized by IEICE PRMU and IPSJ SIG-CVIM, and endorsed by IAPR.

The deadline is approaching, so we would like to inform you again.
We look forward to your submission.
Full Paper (4 pages) Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023

The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry, and to stimulate the exchange of knowledge through intensive discussions on the cutting-edge research topics.

Topics-of-interest include, but are not limited to, sensing, algorithms, and applications (Factory automation and robotics, Intelligent Transport Systems, Human computer interaction, biomedical, multimedia, and life) concerning the image media.

Papers should be prepared in the designated format in four pages, and submitted electronically by the deadline.

Accepted papers will be presented in English either as an oral presentation or a poster presentation.
Note that at least one author of an accepted paper must present their work at the conference.
If you have a reason such as illness or difficulty traveling, we allow you to participate online as well.

Details can be found in the MVA2023 Web site or our twitter and facebook.
https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/
https://twitter.com/MVA_ORG/
https://www.facebook.com/Mva-org/

Important Dates:
– Full Paper (4 pages) Submission Deadline: March 31, 2023
– Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2023
– Camera Ready Manuscript Deadline: July 4, 2023

And, we are pleased to announce MVA2023 IAPR Invited speakers and tutorial speakers.

IAPR Invited speakers:
– Dima DAMEN (Univ. of Bristol, UK)
– Chung-Chieh Jay KUO (Univ. of Southern California, USA)
– Kensaku MORI (Nagoya Univ., Japan)

Tutorial spearkers:
– Michael S. Ryoo
   (SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Stony Brook University, USA.
    Staff Research Scientist, Robotics at Google, USA)
– Shunsuke Saito
   (Research Scientist, Reality Labs Research (Pittsburgh), USA)

Contact:
MVA2023 Organizing Committee (mva2023-sec-AT-mva-org.jp)

General Chairs
– Kyoko Sudo (Toho University)
– Shunsuke Kudo (The University of Electro-Communications)

Program Chairs
– Ichiro Ide (Nagoya University)
– Wei-Ta Chu (National Cheng Kung University)

Callenge：
In conjunction with MVA2023, we host the Small Object Detection Challenge for Spotting Birds.
This challenge focuses on Small Object Detection (SOD) problem,
which is a hot topic in the Computer Vision community in recent years.
Please check the details here.
        https://www.mva-org.jp/mva2023/challenge

We look forward to your participation.