Connectionists: [CFP] Workshop and Challenge on Human–Scene Interaction (HSI) at ECCV 2026

[Anna Deichler]

We invite submissions to the First Workshop on Human–Scene Interaction
(HSI) at ECCV 2026 in Malmö, Sweden.

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Important Dates:
Submission deadline: July 7, 2026
Notification: July 31, 2026
Workshop: September 2026

We welcome both archival and non-archival submissions.

Website: https://www.hsi-workshop.com/
Contact: hsi-workshop at googlegroups.com

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Overview

This workshop focuses on modelling and generating human/humanoid motion and
behaviour grounded in the surrounding scene. The goal is to bring together
research from computer vision, graphics, robotics, and multimodal learning
to advance scene-aware embodied agents.

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Invited Speakers

   - Umar Iqbal – NVIDIA DAIR
   - Taku Komura – University of Hong Kong
   - Zhengyi Luo – NVIDIA GEAR
   - Gerard Pons-Moll – University of Tübingen

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Topics include, but are not limited to:

   - Scene-conditioned human motion generation
   - Human-scene and human-object interaction modelling
   - Referring expression understanding and grounding in 3D scenes
   - Language understanding and grounded communication for embodied agents
   - Vision-language-motion alignment and grounding
   - Vision-language-action (VLA) models for embodied agents
   - Multimodal learning for motion and interaction
   - Datasets, benchmarks, and evaluation for interaction
   - Affordance learning and scene understanding
   - Physically-based simulation of interaction
   - Applications in robotics, animation, AR/VR, and embodied communication
   - Technical reports accompanying challenge submissions

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Submission Guidelines

Archival Submissions
   - Must present original, unpublished work.
   - Will undergo peer review.
   - Accepted papers will be published in the ECCV 2026 Workshop
Proceedings (Springer LNCS).
   - Papers must follow the ECCV formatting guidelines.

Non-Archival Submissions
   - May include previously published work, work under review, or ongoing
research.
   - Intended for presentation only (poster or oral), and will not be
included in the proceedings.
   - Ideal for sharing recent results, demos, or position papers.

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Challenge Track

The workshop will also host a challenge on scene-aware gesture generation
based on the MM-Conv dataset. Participation in the challenge requires a
paper submission describing the method. All challenge submissions will be
considered archival submissions and will undergo peer review.

Challenge details: https://www.hsi-workshop.com/challenge

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Organizers
   - Jonas Beskow, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
   - Rishabh Dabral, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany)
   - Anna Deichler, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
   - Fethiye Irmak Doğan, University of Cambridge (UK)
   - Anindita Ghosh, Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany)
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