CV4Edu - Computer Vision for Education

Computer vision (CV) plays a central role in human‑centered AI, yet most models are trained on web‑scale benchmarks that poorly reflect real classrooms. Educational data are noisy, private, small‑scale, and multimodal (e.g.,face, gaze, pose). Students’ cognitive/behavioral states (e.g.,engagement, mind‑wandering) and learning processes (e.g.,self-regulation, collaboration) can be inferred from subtle cues in the lab. Still, today’s models struggle to generalize to noisy classroom data. CV4Edu brings together computer vision, human-computer interaction, and educational researchers to chart a community agenda for efficient, privacy‑aware multimodal data-driven models that work more efficiently and reliably in low‑resource, real‑world classrooms—potentially launching shared datasets, metrics, and unified practices.

Topics

The workshop topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Multimodal perception in classrooms: face, gaze, pose, gesture, posture, affect, prosody/speech dynamics, turn‑taking, task objects (board/projector, notebooks, lab materials)
  • Robustness & generalization: domain shift beyond the lab, few‑/low‑shot learning, continual and on‑device adaptation under occlusions, varying camera placements, seating layouts, multi‑party and multimodal dynamics.
  • Construct inference, interpretability & measurement validity: end‑to‑end mapping from vision features to learning‑science constructs using interdisciplinary codebooks (e.g., deriving behaviors that are ecologically valid requires codebook), reliability (inter‑rater/test–retest), calibration/uncertainty, and validity evidence.
  • Data, benchmarks, and protocols: curation/annotation aligned with educational constructs, consent & documentation norms/regulations, unified pre‑/post‑processing, privacy‑preserving datasets and learning (e.g., model‑weight sharing/privacy preserving approaches).
  • Case studies and deployments: human‑in‑the‑loop tools, human-AI frameworks, classroom feedback systems, and equitable uses.

Tentative Schedule

Opening & Goals
Keynote 1
TBA: Title TBA
Keynote 2
TBA: Title TBA
Poster Session 1 + Coffee Break
Keynote 3
TBA: Title TBA
Keynote 4
TBA: Title TBA
Poster Session 2 + Coffee Break
Panel: From Lab to In‑The‑Wild
Community Discussion
Closing & Next Steps

Papers

  • Types: Full papers (CVPR style/length guidelines, max 8 pp excl. refs); or possibility of extended abstract/positions papers (TBD).
  • Review process: double‑blind; at least two reviews + meta‑review; ethics/IRB checklist and optional ethics/impact statement.
  • Review timeline: We will align submission/notification with the official CVPR workshop schedule windows (see table below). Note: we will also mirror camera‑ready deadlines.
  • Paper submission will open soon.
Milestone Date Description
Paper Submission Deadline Thursday, March 12, 2026 Final date for authors to submit their completed papers via the online portal
Review Period Starts Friday, March 13, 2026 Papers are assigned to reviewers and the review period begins
Reviews Due Friday, March 27, 2026 Reviewers are expected to have submitted all their reviews by this date
Decision Notification Deadline Friday, April 3, 2026 Final decision notification
Camera-Ready Submission Friday, April 10, 2026 Final camera ready versions due

Venue

Denver Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver CO 80202

The workshop will be held together with CVPR 2026.