The Second Workshop on Computer Vision for Geospatial Image Analysis

Motivation and Impact: There is a growing need for venues that foster a richer collaboration between the computer vision and geospatial image analysis communities. By being collocated with WACV (a top-tier computer vision workshop at the cutting edge of computer vision applications), our proposed workshop will provide a platform for algorithm developers and computer vision researchers as well as researchers in the geospatial imaging and image analysis communities to come together and work on challenging problems of great social relevance}. This workshop will build on the foundations of the very successful full-day workshop https://sites.google.com/view/geocv GeoCV @WACV 2025 that was very well received (5 keynote talks, 30 posters, 20 full papers in the proceedings and a full room at the venue). For the 2026 Edition of GeoCV, we propose to emphasize self-supervised learning for the training of large vision and multi-modal foundation models, domain generalization in the context of such models and related concepts as they pertain to Geospatial Image Analysis applications. We believe that this workshop would be a complementary addition to the WACV lineup of workshops by focusing on a niche but very important and emergent area. In addition to the 2025 Edition of GeoCV, we have had a very positive experience hosting a workshop https://sites.google.com/view/morse2025 - (MORSE 2025)} that complemented other workshops and provided synergy in the https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/workshop-list - {remote sensing track} at CVPR 2025.Expected Outcomes: We expect this workshop to serve as a platform for dissemination of the state-of-the-art in computer vision and AI for geospatial imaging and its applications. Additionally, by bringing together leading researchers from academia and industry to deliver talks on emerging algorithmic ideas, sensing capabilities and research directions, we aim to provide a venue for cross-fertilization of ideas to further the impact computer vision can play in this rapidly growing area of geospatial image analysis, as well as accelerate the adoption of the latest trends and promising developments in computer vision for the analysis of geospatial image analysis at scale. Our workshop represents a diverse team, spanning 5 countries across the globe. Additionally, our team and the planned speakers represent a wide range in terms of their stage-of-career, from rising stars to established researchers. This workshop will also serve as a venue for students and postdocs to network with leading researchers in these emerging and important research areas. Details are provided in the enclosed proposal PDF file, following the WACV workshop proposal template.