Many biological organisms have evolved to exhibit diverse behaviors, and understanding these behaviors is a fundamental goal of multiple disciplines including neuroscience, biology, animal husbandry, ecology, and animal conservation. These analyses require objective, repeatable, and scalable measurements of animal behaviors that are not possible with existing methodologies that leverage manual encoding from animal experts and specialists. Recently, computer vision has been making a significant impact across multiple disciplines by providing new tools for the detection, tracking, and analysis of animal behavior. This workshop brings together experts across fields to stimulate this new field of computer-vision-based animal behavioral understanding.
Previous editions: 2025 Program, 2024 Program, 2023 Program
TBA.
We solicit non-archival papers on the related topics of CV4Animals. The selected papers will be presented in the poster sessions and potentially oral presentations during the workshop (will not be published in proceedings). We will provide a number of free conference and workshop registrations for the outstanding papers, thanks to our generous sponsors.
There are 2 submission tracks:
Track 1 (unpublished work): Paper must follow the CVPR format, and be limited to 4 pages plus additional pages for ethics statements and references only. Additional supplementary materials are allowed in a separate zip file, and must be submitted by the same deadline. Papers will be reviewed in accordance with the double-blind policy, based on relevance, significance, and novelty.
Track 2 (published work): We look for papers already published at a peer-reviewed venue within the last 2 years. A full paper can be submitted without modification.
IJCV Invitation: The outstanding papers submitted to Track 1 will be invited to submit an extended version to the 2026 IJCV Special Issue on Computer Vision for Animal Tracking and Modeling. This invitation path is one of the measures we take to reduce revision cycles for the special issue.
Submission Deadline: 11:59 pm, March 17, 2026 (AoE) Extended to 11:59 pm, March 24, 2026 (AoE)
Notification of Decision: April 20, 2026
Submission: OpenReview (Track 1) and Google Form (Track 2)
CV4Animals Slack channel. Sara Beery runs the AI for Conservation slack, to provide a shared, interdisciplinary space for researchers who work across the fields of computer vision, machine learning, and AI for conservation and sustainability. We launched the CV4Animals channel to better connect our sub-community. The entire community is over 2500 strong, with researchers from all over the globe. If you'd like to join us, just email aiforconservation@gmail.com
Contribute as a reviewer for the next CV4Animals workshop or IJCV. Put your name down to offer your availability and expertise: https://forms.gle/v6V4SK6QYcRTw23D6
UCLA
Princeton University
Victoria University of Wellington
Peking University
University of Cambridge
Linköping University
Please get in touch via cv4animals@googlegroups.com.
Contact: cv4animals@googlegroups.com
