CVTS 2026 features an especially rich program, with 17 outstanding papers selected for CVPR 2026 in Denver. The event will include six technical sessions focused on some of the hottest topics in Computer Vision: Generative AI and realistic scene synthesis, 3D representations, Vision-Language Model applications and grounded reasoning, bias and model safety, interpretability, and transfer learning.
9.00 Welcome + IT4LIA AI Factory project
Keynote: The making of Blender
Francesco Siddi, CEO of Blender
Francesco Siddi will walk us through his own experience coming up through the Blender community and will share how the Blender was built into a public, community-centric project.
Wentao Qu, Guofeng Mei, Yang Wu, Yongshun Gong, Xiaoshui Huang, Liang Xiao
Jinwei Hu, Francesco Borsatti, Arianna Stropeni, Davide Dalle Pezze, Manuel Barusco, Gian Antonio Susto
10.45 IT4LIA AI Factory Coffee Break
11.15
Session 2: Bias, safety & interpretability
Francesco Gentile, Nicola Dall’Asen, Francesco Tonini, Massimiliano Mancini, Lorenzo Vaquero, Elisa Ricci
Weijie Wang, Songlong Xing, Zhengyu Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
11.45
Session 3: 3D representations
Guofeng Mei, Wei Lin, Luigi Riz, Yujiao Wu, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi
Alessio Mazzucchelli, María Naranjo Almeida, Jorge Bustos Sanchez, Mariella Dimiccoli, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Jordi Sanchez-Riera, Adrian Penate-Sanchez
Antonio Luigi Stefani, Niccolò Bisagno, Nicola Conci, Eckehard Steinbach, Francesco GB De Natale
Qinfeng Xiao, Guofeng Mei, Bo Yang, Liying Zhang, Jian Zhang, Kit-lun Yick
12.25 IT4LIA AI Factory Lunch + Posters
14.25
Session 4: Grounded reasoning
Runyu Jiao, Matteo Bortolon, Francesco Giuliari, Alice Fasoli, Sergio Povoli, Guofeng Mei, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi
Yan Shu, Bin Ren, Zhitong Xiong, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Begüm Demir, Nicu Sebe, Paolo Rota
14.50
Session 5: VLM applications
Jinlong Li, Liyuan Jiang, Haonan Zhang, Nicu Sebe
Zanxi Ruan, Songqun Gao, Qiuyu Kong, Yiming Wang, Marco Cristani
Francesco Laiti, Davide Talon, Jacopo Staiano, Elisa Ricci
Alberto Compagnoni, Marco Morini, Sara Sarto, Federico Cocchi, Davide Caffagni, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
15.35
Session 6: Transfer learning
Mainak Singha, Sarthak Mehrotra, Paolo Casari, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Elisa Ricci, Biplab Banerjee
Samuele Angheben, Davide Berasi, Alessandro Conti, Elisa Ricci, Yiming Wang
Haiyang Zheng, Nan Pu, Yaqi Cai, Teng Long, Wenjing Li, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
16.10 Closing
