WACV 2028 — IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision

WACV 2028, the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, takes place 2–9 January 2028 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States. WACV is the CVF's applications-focused counterpart to CVPR and ICCV: where those two reward novel theory, WACV explicitly rewards computer vision that works on real data under real constraints, which makes its programme unusually readable for engineering teams rather than only for researchers. The conference runs a two-round submission cycle with rebuttals, co-located workshops and tutorials, and an industry track. James Corso is the confirmed general chair for the 2028 edition, and the CVF has committed the conference to Waikoloa for several consecutive years. The 2028 call for papers, programme and registration rates have not been published yet; only the host site and dates are confirmed.

Date

January 2–9, 2028

Location

Hilton Waikoloa Village, Hawaii

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) and IEEE Computer Society

Added

Aug 10, 2026

Updated

Aug 10, 2026

• ✓Applied computer vision engineers
• ✓Machine learning researchers
• ✓ML platform and MLOps leads
• ✓PhD students and postdocs in vision and ML
• ✓Product and engineering managers shipping vision features
• ✓Heads of AI at industrial, retail and medical imaging companies

WACV is the computer vision conference to send an engineering team to rather than a research team. Because acceptance turns on whether a method survives real-world data, deployment constraints and latency budgets, the programme reads as a shortlist of techniques that are actually ready to be productised — the opposite of the benchmark-chasing that dominates the larger venues. A VP of Engineering evaluating whether to build in-house inspection, document understanding or medical imaging capability will leave with a defensible view of what is buildable this year, which vendors are ahead, and which of their own open problems already have published solutions. Booking eighteen months out secures the Hawai'i venue at the lowest cost.

• ✓Main conference: applications-oriented oral and poster tracks
• ✓Two-round paper submission cycle with a rebuttal/revision stage
• ✓Co-located workshops on applied vision domains
• ✓Tutorials taught by senior researchers and practitioners
• ✓Industry/applications track alongside the academic programme
• ✓Demo sessions for working systems
• ✓Student and doctoral programmes
• ✓Host site confirmed at the Hilton Waikoloa Village by the CVF and IEEE TCPAMI

• ★The applications venue in the CVF family — reviewers weigh whether a method works on real, messy data, so the papers translate to production more directly than CVPR's theory-first track.
• ★Two-round submission cycle with a rebuttal stage, which gives authors a second shot within one edition rather than a year's wait.
• ★Runs in the first week of January, well clear of the CVPR/ICCV/NeurIPS crush, so the schedule does not collide with the rest of the AI conference calendar.
• ★The CVF has committed WACV to Waikoloa for several consecutive editions (2028 through 2031), so it becomes a fixed annual date rather than a moving target.
• ★James Corso is confirmed as general chair for 2028 more than a year out.

No registration rates have been published for WACV 2028. The CVF has confirmed the host site (Hilton Waikoloa Village), the dates and the general chair; the edition website carrying the call for papers and the pass tiers has not launched yet, so there is no price to quote. For reference on timing, the WACV 2027 edition site went live with its full submission calendar roughly a year ahead of the conference.

When is WACV 2028?

WACV 2028 takes place January 2–9, 2028 in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Where is WACV 2028 held?

WACV 2028 is held in Waikoloa, Hawaii. The event format is in-person.

How much does WACV 2028 cost?

WACV 2028 is paid. No registration rates have been published for WACV 2028. The CVF has confirmed the host site (Hilton Waikoloa Village), the dates and the general chair; the edition website carrying the call for papers and the pass tiers has not launched yet, so there is no price to quote. For reference on timing, the WACV 2027 edition site went live with its full submission calendar roughly a year ahead of the conference.

Who should attend WACV 2028?

WACV 2028 is aimed at Applied computer vision engineers, Machine learning researchers, ML platform and MLOps leads, PhD students and postdocs in vision and ML, Product and engineering managers shipping vision features, Heads of AI at industrial, retail and medical imaging companies.

What topics does WACV 2028 cover?

WACV 2028 covers Applied computer vision, Deep learning, Vision-language models, Industrial and manufacturing inspection, Medical imaging AI, Video analytics and surveillance, Efficient and on-device inference, Generative AI for imaging.

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