Vision for Biomedical Discovery (CVPath + Vision4Neuro)
Full-day workshop at IEEE/CVF WACV 2027
Orlando, Florida, USA, 4-5 January 2027
https://cvpath-vision4neuro.github.io/wacv2027/

OVERVIEW

Tissue slides and neural recordings could hardly be more different as data, yet they raise the same methodological questions: foundation and multimodal models, generalization under real distribution shift, and what counts as evidence that a model is ready for clinical use. This full-day workshop brings the two communities into one room, under a shared umbrella, with two self-contained tracks, a joint panel and a combined poster session.

Each track keeps its own call for papers, program committee and reviewing process. Authors select the track when submitting.

TRACK 1 - CVPath: Computer Vision for Computational and Digital Pathology

Topics include, but are not limited to:
Foundation and self-supervised models for pathology
Whole-slide image analysis and gigapixel understanding
Cell- and nuclei-level vision; dense prediction at cellular scale
Imaging beyond H&E: IHC, multiplex/mIF, multi-stain
Robustness, domain shift and weak supervision in computational pathology
Multimodal, generative and vision-language models in computational pathology
AI interpretability and trustworthy AI in computational pathology
Reproducibility, benchmarks, deployment and clinical translation

The track hosts the OWL challenge (Observing What Models Learn) on interpretable AI for hypothesis-free discovery in prostate cancer histopathology, run on the Grand Challenge platform: https://owl.grand-challenge.org/

TRACK 2 - Vision4Neuro: Neural Decoding and Computer Vision for Behavioral and Clinical Neuroscience

Topics include, but are not limited to:
Decoding and reconstruction of visual experience from neural signals (EEG, MEG, fMRI, fNIRS, ECoG)
Brain-to-image and brain-to-video generation
Encoding models and representational alignment between vision-language models and cortex
Multimodal neuroimaging and fusion
Brain-computer interfaces, gaze-driven interfaces and assistive communication
Vision-based behavioural phenotyping: eye tracking and markerless pose analysis
Clinical and translational applications in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative conditions
Robustness in the wild: cross-subject and cross-session transfer, domain shift, calibration, open-set recognition

SUBMISSIONS

Three submission types, all in the WACV 2027 format, page limits excluding references:
Regular papers, 8 pages. Archival, published in the WACV 2027 Workshop Proceedings on IEEE Xplore and in the CVF Open Access repository.
Short papers, 4 pages. Non-archival, presented as posters or lightning talks.
Extended abstracts, 2 pages. Non-archival, presented as posters or lightning talks.

Reviewing is double-blind. Submissions are handled through OpenReview. WACV 2027 does not accommodate remote presentations: at least one author of each accepted contribution must register and present on site.

IMPORTANT DATES

Regular papers (archival) 16 October 2026, 23:59 AoE
Notification, regular papers 30 October 2026
Short papers and extended abstracts 6 November 2026, 23:59 AoE
Camera-ready, archival papers 20 November 2026
Workshop 4-5 January 2027

ORGANIZERS

CVPath: Soumick Chatterjee (Human Technopole, Milan), Francesco Ciompi, Khrystyna Faryna, Evgenia Martynova (Radboudumc), Francesco Merolla (University of Molise), Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Cristian Tommasino (University of Naples Federico II).

Vision4Neuro: Marios Petrov, Adham Atyabi, Terrance E. Boult (University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Frederick Shic (Seattle Children's Research Institute and University of Washington).

CONTACT

CVPath: cristian.tommasino@unina.it
Vision4Neuro: mpetrov@uccs.edu