Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the invitation to contribute to the 11th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) to be held in conjunction with European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026.


(1): The Competition is split into the below two Challenges:
(i) Multi-Task Learning Challenge
(ii) Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Video Recognition Challenge

The first Challenge is based on a static version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the second is based on the BAH dataset. More details can be found here: https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/11th


All accepted papers from the Competition will be part of the ECCV 2026 proceedings.



Important Dates:

- Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available:
25 May, 2026

- Final submission deadline:
16 July, 2026

- Winners Announcement:
18 July, 2026

- Final paper submission deadline:
20 July, 2026

- Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance:
10 August, 2026

- Camera ready version deadline:
15 August, 2026



(2): The Workshop is a premier platform highlighting the latest advancements in multimodal analysis, generation, modeling, and understanding of human affect and behavior in real-world, unconstrained environments.

Original high-quality contributions, in terms of databases, surveys, studies, foundation models, techniques and methodologies (either uni-modal or multi-modal; uni-task or multi-task ones) are solicited on -but are not limited to- the following topics:

i) facial expression (basic, compound or other) or micro-expression analysis
ii) facial action unit detection
iii) valence-arousal estimation
iv) physiological-based (e.g.,EEG, EDA) affect analysis
v) face recognition, detection or tracking
vi) body recognition, detection or tracking
vii) gesture recognition or detection
viii) pose estimation or tracking
ix) activity recognition or tracking
x) lip reading and voice understanding
xi) face and body characterization (e.g., behavioral understanding)
xii) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)
xiii) group understanding via social cues (e.g., kinship, non-blood relationships, personality)
xiv) video, action and event understanding
xv) digital human modeling
xvi) characteristic analysis (e.g., gait, age, gender, ethnicity recognition)
xvii) behaviour-aware, affective and social robotics
xviii) human-robot interaction, collaboration and communication
xix) robot perception of human affect, behaviour, intention, attention and social signals
xx) embodied AI agents, assistive robots and socially interactive robots
xxi) violence detection
xxii) autonomous driving
xxiii) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases
xxiv) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases
xxv) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases


Accepted workshop papers will appear at ECCV 2026 proceedings.



Important Dates:

- Paper submission deadline:
20 July, 2026

- Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance:
10 August, 2026

- Camera ready version deadline:
15 August, 2026



General Chair:
Dimitrios Kollias (Queen Mary University of London, UK)


Program Chairs:
Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College London, UK)
Irene Kotsia (Cogitat Ltd, UK)
Eric Granger (École de technologie supérieure, Canada)
Marco Pedersoli (École de technologie supérieure, Canada)
Simon Bacon (Concordia University, Canada)
Oya Celiktutan (King’s College London, UK)


In case of any queries, please contact d.kollias@qmul.ac.uk



Kind Regards,
Dimitrios Kollias,
on behalf of the organising committee