🌿 The Computer Vision for Natural Heritage (CVNH) is an ECCV workshop that brings together computer vision researchers, natural heritage digitization experts, and domain scientists to advance methods for analyzing 2D, 3D, and multi-modal imaging of natural history collections and to identify open challenges.
📄 Abstract: Globally, large-scale digitization initiatives are generating massive image datasets from natural history collections. Computer vision is essential for unlocking the scientific value of these data, enabling automated extraction of specimen information and supporting research in biodiversity, ecology, and evolution, including studies of migration and ongoing mass extinction. Despite controlled imaging conditions and rich metadata, automated analysis remains challenging due to complex specimen structures, varying appearances, and handwritten labels. Natural history datasets span 2D images (e.g., photographs, multi-spectral scans), 3D volumetric data (e.g., micro-CT), and multi‑modal inputs (e.g., image-text pairs).
📢 Call for Papers: The covered topics include but are not limited to:
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Robotic vision for automated imaging
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Species recognition and AI‑assisted species description
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Phenology estimation from collection specimens
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Benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation protocols
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Vision-based quality control and error detection
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Morphological trait extraction using CV
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Computational challenges for species recognition (CT-scans of micro‑fossils and handwritten insect labels)
🏆 Kaggle challenges: We are also launching two Kaggle Challenges. The authors of the top-performing submissions will be invited to participate in a paper.
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Foram2026 Challenge: Detection and classification of microCT 3D scans of Forameniferas.
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SCAT2026: Text recognition and text type identification (e.g., “date”, “locality”) in museum label photographs.
🎤 Speakers: Elizabeth G. Campolongo (Senior Data Scientist for the Imageomics Institute, The Ohio State University (United States)); Emily Baird (Professor at the Stockholm University (Sweden)); Moritz Lürig (Assistant Professor at Bonn University (Germany)); Joakim Bruslund Haurum (Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark)).
👥 Organizers: Kim Steenstrup Pedersen (Professor, Natural History Museum Denmark, University of Copenhagen); Anders Bjorholm Dahl (Professor, Technical University of Denmark & QIM); Hans Martin Kjer (Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark & QIM); Roberta Eleanor Hunt (Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen); J. Miguel Valverde (Postdoctoral Researcher, Technical University of Denmark & QIM).
📅 Date: September 8th or 9th, 2026 (TBA)
📍 Location: Malmö (Sweden)
May 13th, 2026 
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