CVPR 2026 Shatters Records, Revealing Latest Breakthroughs in Computer Vision and AI  

Attendance, paper submissions reach historic highs reinforcing CVPR as the world’s leading forum for computer vision and AI research 

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 22 June 2026 –  The 2026 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) closed on Sunday, 7 June, having drawn 12,200 registrants from 84 countries/regions. Surpassing all previous attendance and paper submission records, CVPR 2026 set the standard for the latest in computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicle, and embodied AI/robotic research.  

“As advances in computer vision and artificial intelligence fuel new possibilities, CVPR serves as the field’s home for dialogue, debate, and advancements,” said Alexander G. Schwing,  Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Ill., U.S., CVPR 2026 Program Co-Chair. “This year’s conference exceeded all expectations and will fuel the next round of technical excellence.” 

Exhibit 

The CVPR 2026 exhibit, which featured 118 exhibitors, was one of the largest in conference history. Fueled by computer vision and AI applications, more than a quarter of exhibitors were first-time participants, with others representing some of the most significant technology companies in the world, including Build, GM, Institute of Foundation Models / Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Lamda, Meta, Tencent, Tesla, Uber, Waymo, and more.  

“Every year the CVPR exhibit takes the latest in technical research and brings it to life on the show floor,” said Chen Change Loy, Tan Lip-Bu Professor in AI at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and CVPR 2026 Program Co-Chair. “These companies are shaping the future of technology. The solutions they showcased were supported by the research coming out of the CVPR technical program and now are entering the market to better serve humanity.”

Art Program

For the past three years, CVPR has also been home to an art program that highlights ways computer vision techniques are being used to make art and how computer vision art is creating novel aesthetics, imagining new ways of seeing the world, and investigating the potential of human-machine collaboration. In addition, artists look critically into the workings and applications of object and facial recognition and produce works that highlight the limitations of the current state of technology, critique the machine’s view of the world, and use the technology in unexpected ways. 

“The CVPR Art Program explores the intersection of engineering advancements and creative sensibilities,” said Luba Elliott, CVPR 2026 art program curator. “It pushes the boundaries of what’s possible from an artist’s perspective.”

Of the 114 works featured at CVPR 2026, the following received top honors from this year’s program:

• Dreambrush, Sun Chuanqi and Yuhan Wang, best artwork presentation at the conference
• artefact(s): LeNet-1, Nick Oh and Alex Park, a novel depiction of a neural network
• Rest!, Avital Meshi and Dorte Bjerre Jensen, critical examination of computer vision

These awards were announced and presented at the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TCPAMI) meeting on 6 June. 

Technical Program

CVPR 2026 received 16,092 paper submissions, a 24% increase over 2025. Out of the 4,089 accepted paper presentations, the following papers were honored with top marks:

• CVPR 2026 Best Paper: Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time 
• CVPR 2026 Best Student Paper: Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D Generation 
• CVPR 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention: NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents
• CVPR 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention: SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images
• CVPR 2026 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention: ChordEdit: One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing

More information on the award-winning papers can be found here.

In addition to paper presentations, 153 workshops, 19 tutorials, and 28 conference demonstrations showcased the latest achievements. In fact, the following were singled out as this year’s award-winning demos for their anticipated impact on the field:

• "Computational Speckle Pattern Interferometry," which introduces Computational Speckle Pattern Interferometry (CSPI), a novel single-shot approach to estimating per-pixel displacement and motion. 
• "MIBURI: Towards Expressive Interactive Gesture Synthesis,” which presents MIBURI, the first online, causal framework for generating expressive full-body gestures and facial expressions synchronized with real-time spoken dialogue.
• "KV-Tracker: Real-Time Pose Tracking with Transformers," which demonstrates KV-Tracker on both scene-level tracking and the more challenging task of on-the-fly object tracking and reconstruction without depth measurements or object priors. 

Standing impact

Year after year, CVPR’s technical program publishes the most cited papers in AI and computer vision, with past proceedings earning the number two spot in Google’s 2025 Scholar Metrics, outperforming other prestigious scientific journals. In addition, Research.com ranks CVPR as the top conference for Computer Science, Image Processing & Computer Vision, and Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.

Continuing this trajectory next year, CVPR 2027 will take place 20-24 June at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Wash. For more information, visit cvpr.thecvf.com.

About CVPR 2026

The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is the preeminent computer vision event for new research in support of artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, multi-modal AI, wearable AI, novel AI architectures, spatial computing, agentic AI, AI for science, embodied AI and robotics, and much more. Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (CS) and the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF), CVPR delivers the important advances in computer vision and pattern recognition that are expanding the frontiers of computer vision and defining the next generation of intelligent, interactive technologies. With a first-in-class technical program, including tutorials and workshops, a leading-edge, immersive expo, and robust networking opportunities, CVPR, which is annually attended by more than 10,000 scientists and engineers from across the globe, creates a one-of-a-kind opportunity for networking, recruiting, inspiration, and motivation.

CVPR 2026 took place 3-7 June at Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colo., U.S. CVPR 2027 will take place 19-26 June at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, Wash., U.S. For more information about CVPR, visit cvpr.thecvf.com.

About the Computer Vision Foundation

The Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to foster and support research on all aspects of computer vision. Together with the IEEE Computer Society, it co-sponsors the two largest computer vision conferences, CVPR and the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). Visit thecvf.com for more information.

About the IEEE Computer Society

Engaging computer engineers, scientists, academia, and industry professionals from all areas of computing, the IEEE Computer Society sets the standard of excellence and champions global advancements to benefit humanity.

As the IEEE Computer Society celebrates its 80th anniversary in 2026, it continues to build on its rich legacy. Through conferences, publications, and programs that bring together computer science and engineering leaders at every stage of their careers, the IEEE Computer Society empowers, shapes, and guides the future of its 375,000+ community members, as well as the greater computing community, enabling new opportunities to better serve our world. Visit computer.org for more information.