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10th Sclera Segmentation Benchmarking Competition 2026 (SSBC)
https://ijcb2026.ieee-biometrics.org/
Important dates: Registration is open now
Website: https://sites.google.com/hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in/ssbc2026/home
- Track 1: Foundation Models & VLMs. In this track, we aim to benchmark the performance of sclera segmentation approaches based on Foundation Models and VLMs. Participants will submit solutions that integrate large multi-modal models into biometric segmentation pipelines. We specifically encourage grounding approaches, in which textual or auxiliary prompts guide the segmentation, or novel architectures built on top of FMs/VLMs. Results will be compared against standard lighter-weight segmentation models provided by the organisers.
- Track 2: Label-Efficient Learning. The second track will focus on semi-supervised, weakly-supervised, and self-supervised learning approaches. Participants will be challenged to train models capable of learning from incomplete or no labels, addressing the critical issue of data scarcity in medical and biometric imaging. To maintain fairness during evaluation, participants may be required to submit their models and training code, which the organisers will test using a flat protocol for the segmentation task.
Best regards on behalf of all co-organisers,
Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) Workshops @ CVPR 2026
March 31st, 2026 
Daniela Lopez de Luise Dear colleagues,
We are excited to announce the Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) workshop at CVPR 2026, featuring an outstanding lineup of speakers. This workshop will bring together researchers from CV, NLP, HCI, social sciences, and humanities, recognizing that pluralistic multimodal AI systems demand both technical expertise and an understanding of human values.
We invite you to:
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Participate in our challenge. We host a challenge on Machine Translation for Vision, which focuses on adapting images to fit different cultures while keeping their meaning. We offer two tracks: open (using open-sourced models only) and proprietary (any use of proprietary models). More details on the dataset and the task can be found in the paper, which won the Best Paper award at EMNLP 2024! The challenge will be hosted on Hugging Face challenges. The results of the challenges and winning entries will be presented at the workshop. Participate here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/cmu-lti/MachineTranslationforVision
Start date: March 3, 2026
End date: April 10, 2026
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Submit your papers of up to 4 pages that discuss but are not limited to identifying effective evaluation tasks, benchmarks, and metrics to assess cultural awareness and alignment in VLMs; new methodology for improving cultural authenticity, pluralism, and fairness of AI systems; and new techniques for capturing multiple cultural perspectives and building multimodal models that can amplify underrepresented communities and handle low-resource data at scale.
Start date: March 3, 2026
End date: April 10, 2026
Submit via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/MAPS
For more details see the Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/call-for-papers.
Useful links:
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Workshop Website: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr
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Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/call-for-papers
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Challenges: https://sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr/challenges
Please feel free to share this with colleagues who may be interested. We look forward to your participation.
For any workshop-related queries including the challenge, please drop an email at maps.cvpr@gmail.com.
Yours sincerely,
Workshop organizers
Conferences: CASAXR26 Workshop Last Call for papers
March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise CALL FOR PAPERS (Submission Deadline: March 28, (23.59cet)
As our world becomes increasingly digitized, artificial agents — whether physical (robots and embodied systems), virtual (human or non-human), or hybrid — are becoming integral to everyday life. Their rapid development requires a fundamental rethinking of how humans interact with such entities, particularly regarding social interaction and relationship-building.
This workshop on Social Interactions with Agents, hosted at CASAXR 2026, aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration around the design, modeling, evaluation, and ethical implications of social interactions with artificial agents.
We seek to bring together researchers from computer science, robotics, extended reality, animation, psychology, communication sciences, behavioral sciences, ethics, and related fields to contribute to the development of next-generation social interaction paradigms between humans and agents.
Topics of Interest
The workshop welcomes submissions including, but not limited to, the following areas:
- Social robotics
- Virtual humans
- Virtual agents
- Intelligent agents (physical, virtual, or hybrid)
- Embodiment and presence
- Modeling and animating digital/virtual twins
- Affective computing
- Behavioral animation and simulation
- Human-agent and agent-agent communication
- Behavioral animation
- Ethics of agents, social robots, and virtual humans
- Avatars and the Metaverse
- Populated heritage sites
- Populated extended reality
- Applications of virtual humans, agents, or robots for:
- Cultural Heritage
- Climate change adaptation
- Risk communication
- Individual-centered support during extreme events
- Real-world simulation environments
Types of Submissions
We invite:
- Research papers focusing on social interaction with physical, virtual, or hybrid agents.
- Technical papers addressing technological challenges that constrain or enable social interactions.
- Position papers discussing ethics, emerging concepts, theoretical frameworks, and early-stage ideas for novel social interaction paradigms.
All submissions must follow the official CASAXR 2026 conference guidelines.
Publication
Accepted papers will be published in the Springer CASAXR 2026 Proceedings.
Selected high-quality papers will be invited for submission to the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal published by Wiley.
SEE https://cgs-network.org/CASAXR26/index.php/workshops/ for more information
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026): Second Call for Workshop Proposals
March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise |
*** Second Call for Workshop Proposals ***
37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2026)
October 20-23, 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
Objectives
ISSRE strives to be the conference that appeals to both researchers and practitioners. To
that end, we invite proposals for workshops to co-locate with the Symposium and provide
additional opportunities for collaborating and exchanging information. The workshops
aim at discussing research developments and challenges at an early stage. ISSRE welcomes
workshops that explore new ways to provide and assess software reliability, safety, and
security. We also seek workshops that deal with the provision of reliable, safe, and secure
software and systems in fast-growing, transformative application domains. Appropriately
defined workshop proposals have the following characteristics:
• They offer researchers a forum to exchange and discuss scientific and engineering ideas
at an early stage before maturation that would warrant conference or journal publication.
• They attract practitioners and researchers to working sessions to discuss and make
progress toward solutions to current and future problems in engineering high assurance
software and systems.
• They focus on collaborative discussions and information sharing between researchers
and industry practitioners.
Recurring Workshops
Workshops affiliated with ISSRE in previous years with good organization and numbers of
participants are pre-approved. Their organizers do not need to submit a new workshop
proposal. Their organizers are kindly asked to inform the workshop chairs about returning
the workshop to ISSRE in 2026.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include development, analysis methods and models throughout the
software development lifecycle, and are not limited to:
• Primary dependability attributes (i.e., security, safety, maintainability) impacting software
reliability
• Secondary dependability attributes (i.e., survivability, resilience, robustness) impacting
software reliability
• Reliability threats, i.e. faults (defects, bugs, etc.), errors, failures
• Reliability means (fault prevention, fault removal, fault tolerance, fault forecasting)
• Machine Learning and AI-based approaches for enhancing reliability of systems
• Reliability, threads and biases of AI-based software systems, in particular Large
Language Models
• Data-related reliability and vulnerability issues and risks
• Learning-based models of software systems, threads, and reliability estimates
• Automated debugging and program repair
• Metrics, measurements and threat estimation for reliability prediction and the interplay
with safety/security
• Reliability of software services
• Reliability of open source software
• Reliability in networks softwarization
• Reliability of Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Reliability of software dealing with Big Data
• Reliability of model-based and auto-generated software
• Reliability of software in artificial intelligence based software systems
• Reliability of software within specific types of systems (e.g., autonomous and adaptive,
green and sustainable, mobile systems)
• Reliability of software within specific technological spaces (e.g., Internet of Things,
Cloud, 5G/6G, edge-to-cloud computing, Semantic Web/Web 3.0, Virtualization,
Blockchain)
• Normative/regulatory/ethical spaces pertaining to software reliability
• Societal aspects of software reliability
Proposal Submissions
Workshop proposals should include information about the proposed organizing committee
and address the following questions:
• Workshop length: Half day or one full day
• Workshop style: papers, panels, posters, workgroups
• Outline of themes and goals of the workshop
• How will you solicit participation (call for workshop papers, invitation only, etc.)
• Desired/estimated number of participants
• Organizing committee members and their past experience
Submissions need to be performed via Easy Chair, selecting the appropriate track for
workshop proposals. The submission link is:
Proposal Evaluation
Workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ISSRE 2026 Organizing Committee. The
criteria include the alignment with the ISSRE charter, relevance to the larger ISSRE
community, and the strength and experience of the organizing team.
Logistics
The conference will be “in presence” with all presenters of accepted papers expected to
attend the conference physically in Limassol, Cyprus.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Workshop proposal deadline: May 14, 2026
• Workshop proposal notification: May 21, 2026
• Workshop paper submission deadline: July 20, 2026
(NOTE: This date is only indicative – please refer to individual workshop webpages for
information about deadlines)
• Workshop paper notification to authors: August 10, 2026
• Camera ready papers: August 17, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Coordinator
• Roberto Natella, GSSI, Italy
Research Program Committee Chairs
• Domenico Cotroneo, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Jie M. Zhang, King's College London, UK
Industry Program Chairs
• Jinyang Liu, Bytedance, USA
• Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB, Sweden
Workshop Chairs
• Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• August Shi, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
• Stefan Winter, LMU Munich, Germany
• Lili Wei, McGill University, Canada
Fast Abstract Chairs
• Luigi Lavazza, University of Insubria, Italy
• Yintong Huo, SMU, Singapore
JIC2 Chair
• Helene Waeselynck, LAAS-CNRS, France
Publicity Chairs
• Allison K. Sulivan, The University of Texas at Arlington, USA
• Jose D'Abruzzo Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Publication Chairs
• Sherlock Licorish, Otago Business School, New Zealand
• Maria Teresa Rossi, GSSI, Italy
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
• Naghmeh Ivaki, University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Fumio Machida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Diversity and Inclusion Chair
• Eleni Constantinou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Financial Chair
• Costas Pattichis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Web Chairs
• Michalis Ioannides, Easy Conferences LTD
• Elena Masserini, University of Milano – Bicocca, Italy
Registration Chair
• Easy Conferences LTD
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