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Call for Papers

2nd Workshop on Human-inspired Computer Vision

19th or 20th October 2025

ICCV 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii https://sites.google.com/view/hcvworkshop2025

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AIMS AND SCOPE

The goal of the Human-inspired Computer Vision workshop is to link and disseminate parallel findings in the fields of neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and computer vision, to inform the development of human-inspired computational models capable of solving visual tasks in a human-like fashion. Recent approaches to computer vision can achieve high performance on many tasks. However, the relationship between machine vision and human vision remains unclear. Investigating such a relationship is timely and important for two reasons: improving machine vision and understanding/enhancing human vision.

Improving machine vision: Insights from psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience can inform current research on computer vision in a human-like fashion. Such an approach can help identify and tackle gaps between humans and machines, in popular research areas that can be investigated from both perspectives.

Understanding and enhancing human vision: Modeling human vision with inspiration from biology is a hot topic in the context of computational cognitive neuroscience, and it can lead to interpretable computer vision models that serve as useful tools to explain neuroscientific and cognitive observations, and to deepen our understanding of the human brain and developmental mechanisms.

TOPICS

We encourage the submission of research outcomes at the intersection of computer vision with neuroscience and cognitive science, as well as new dataset benchmarks related to the topics listed below.

Computational Vision

• Biomimetic vision systems

• Building on visual representations (e.g., internal motivation, intention, and curiosity)

• Cortical networks of visual recognition

• Neuronal dynamics and image processing

• Probabilistic inference and Bayesian priors in visual perception

• Computational models of visual attention and applications

• Automated image aesthetics

• Multi-modal sensory fusion and modulation for vision

• Visual motion processing and human tracking behavior

Biological Vision

• Bioinspired vision sensing

• Retinal processing: from biology to models and applications

Cognitive Aspects

• Adaptive systems

• Cognitive architectures

• Memory modulation in vision

• Understanding and modeling vision in a social context

• Planning and motor control for vision

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Prof. Vittorio Murino (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy – University of Verona, Italy)

• Prof. Elisa Ricci (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy – University of Trento, Italy)

• Dr. Yen-Ling Kuo (University of Virginia, USA)

• TBA

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular Paper Submission (Archival Track): June 27th, 2025 (23:59 AoE)

Extended Abstract Submission (Non-Archival Track): August 18th, 2025

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The workshop includes an archival track and a non-archival track. Accepted papers of both tracks will be presented during the workshop.

Papers must be prepared according to the ICCV 2025 template and submitted as PDF documents, following ICCV Submission Policies.

At the time of submission, authors must indicate to which track the paper is submitted.

Papers accepted to the archival track will also be published in the ICCV workshop proceedings.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Lucia Schiatti (UVIP, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)

• Mengmi Zhang (Nanyang Technological University, A*STAR, Singapore)

• Yen-Ling Kuo (University of Virginia, USA)

• Vittorio Cuculo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

• Andrei Barbu (MIT, USA)

For more details, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/hcvworkshop2025