Connectionists: (CfP) CVPR 2026: 10th Workshop and Competition on Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)

[Dimitrios Kollias]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the invitation to contribute to the 10<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th>th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th> to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2026.




(1): The Competition is split into the below six Challenges:


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Valence-Arousal Estimation Challenge
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Expression Recognition Challenge
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Action Unit Detection Challenge
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Fine-grained Violence Detection Challenge
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Emotional Mimicry Intensity Estimation Challenge
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Ambivalence/Hesitancy (AH) Video Recognition Challenge


The first 3 Challenges are based on an augmented version of the Aff-Wild2 database; the 4th Challenge is based on the DVD database; the 5th Challenge is based on the Hume-Vidmimic2 dataset; and the 6th Challenge is based on the BAH dataset. More details can be found here<https://affective-behavior-analysis-in-the-wild.github.io/10th>.

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



Important Dates:
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  *   Call for participation announced, team registration begins, data available:

31January, 2026

  *   Final submission deadline:

15 March, 2026

  *   Winners Announcement:

17 March, 2026

  *   Final paper submission deadline:



18 March, 2026

  *   Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance:



 7 April, 2026

  *   Camera ready version deadline:



 10 April, 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) violence detection
xviii) autonomous driving
xix) domain adaptation, domain generalisation, few- or zero-shot learning for the above cases
xx) fairness, explainability, interpretability, trustworthiness, privacy-awareness, bias mitigation and/or subgroup distribution shift analysis for the above cases
xxi) editing, manipulation, image-to-image translation, style mixing, interpolation, inversion and semantic diffusion for all afore mentioned cases



Accepted workshop papers will appear at CVPR 2026 proceedings.


Important Dates:


Paper Submission Deadline:                                                          18 March, 2026

Review decisions sent to authors; Notification of acceptance:      7 April, 2026

Camera ready version                                                                    10 April, 2026




Chairs:


Dimitrios Kollias, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London, UK

Irene Kotsia, Cogitat Ltd, UK

Panagiotis Tzirakis,  Hume AI

Alan Cowen, Google DeepMind

Eric Granger, École de technologie supérieure, Canada

Marco Pedersoli, École de technologie supérieure, Canada

Simon Bacon, Concordia University, Canada


In case of any queries, please contact d.kollias at qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.kollias at qmul.ac.uk>


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






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Dr Dimitrios Kollias, PhD, FHEA, M-IEEE, M-BMVA, M-AAAI, M-ACM, M-TCPAMI, AM-IAPR

Associate Professor in Multimodal Artificial Intelligence

Member of Centre for Multimodal AI

Affiliate Member of Centre for Human Centred Computing
Member of Centre of Predictive in vitro Models

Member of Multimedia and Vision Group

Member of Queen Mary Computer Vision Group

Associate Member of Centre for Advanced Robotics
Academic Fellow of Digital Environment Research Institute

Member of Early Life Research Institute

School of EECS

Queen Mary University of London

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