Workshop Program

All times are local workshop time.

8:00 Welcome Message from the Chairs
8:10 Keynote "The Seen and the Unseen: Multi-Modal Sensing for Understanding Surface and Subsurface Infrastructure"
Brian Sheil — University of Cambridge, UK
8:40 Keynote "Building World Models for Creative Use"
Sarah Parisot — Microsoft, USA
9:10 Keynote "From LSD-SLAM to ViSTA-SLAM: The Evolution of Direct and Deep Visual SLAM"
Daniel Cremers — Technical University of Munich, Germany
9:40 Invited Talk "From points to perspectives: How AI turns raw data into meaningful intelligence"
Khrystyna Bezborodova — Trimble, USA
10:00 Coffee Break and Poster Setup
10:30 Announcement of the PBVS 2026 Challenge Winners
  • "7th Thermal Image Super-Resolution Challenge" — Rafael E. Rivadeneira et al.
  • "5th Multi-modal Aerial View Imagery Challenge: Classification" — Leo Thomas Ramos et al.
  • "4th Multi-modal Aerial View Imagery Challenge: Translation" — Leo Thomas Ramos et al.
  • "2nd Thermal Pedestrian Multiple Object Tracking Challenge" — Wassim El Ahmar et al.
  • "1st Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolution Challenge" — Thomas De Kerf et al.
  • "1st Mars Landslide Segmentation Challenge" — Leo Thomas Ramos et al.
11:00 Oral Presentations of Remotely Attending Authors (6 Presentations)
  • "Zero-shot X-ray Security Image Synthesis via Cross-modal Diffusion" — Zijiao Wang, Qiang Li, Zheng Hu, Gang Fu, Li Zhang
  • "A Hybrid Data-Centric Framework for Thermal Multiple-Object Tracking with Complex Motion Patterns" — Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran, Long Hoang Pham, Quoc Pham-Nam Ho, Chi Dai Tran, Ngoc Doan-Minh Huynh, Huy-Hung Nguyen, Jae Wook Jeon
  • "HUNTS: Hybrid Unfolded Networks for Fast and Accurate Multi-Camera Thermal Super-Resolution" — Abdullahi Shuaibu, Zhihe Lu, Ali Safa
  • "DualSwinFusionSeg: Multimodal Martian Landslide Segmentation via Dual Swin Transformer with Multi-Scale Fusion and UNet++" — Shahriar Kabir, Abdullah Muhammed Amimul Ehsan, Istiak Ahmmed Rifti, Md Kaykobad Reza
  • "Frequency-Guided Fusion For RGB-Thermal Semantic Segmentation" — Ismail Emre Canitez, Ozgur Erkent
  • "An Annotated Thermal Infrared Dataset for Okra Maturity Stage Detection" — Sabari Nathan, Sasithradevi A
11:50 Closing Remarks
12:00 Poster Session (13 Presentations)
  • "EarthBridge: A Solution for 4th Multi-modal Aerial View Image Challenge Translation Track" — Zhenyuan Chen, Yuanshen Guan, Feng Zhang
  • "SCR-Guided Difficulty-Aware Optimization for Infrared Small Target Detection" — Yunus Sevim, Behcet Ugur Toereyin
  • "ACCOR: Attention-Enhanced Complex-Valued Contrastive Learning for Occluded Object Classification Using mmWave Radar IQ Signals" — Stefan Haegele, Adam Misik, Constantin Patsch, Eckehard Steinbach
  • "TopAX: Topologically Aware Explainability Analysis for Layer Sensitivity in Deep Networks" — Navin Ranjan, Alexandra Ciesielka, Andreas Savakis, Paul Schrader, Erik Blasch
  • "Single-View Seafloor Recovery from Imaging Sonar via Differentiable Rendering" — Sevan Brodjian, Michael Hobley, Pietro Perona
  • "Addressing Data Scarcity in Depth-Based Human Action Recognition via Zero-Shot Depth Estimation" — Rebeka Angyal, Pedro Hermosilla, Martin Kampel, Irene Ballester
  • "Revisiting Radar Perception With Spectral Point Clouds" — Hamza Alsharif, Jing Gu, Pavol Jancura, Satish Ravindran, Gijs Dubbelman
  • "Lightweight and Robust Embedded Radar-based Gesture Recognition with Graph Neural Networks" — Manon Dampfhoffer, Umberto Pirovano, Regis Chanal
  • "SSFT: A Lightweight Spectral-Spatial Fusion Transformer for Generic Hyperspectral Classification" — Alexander Musiat, Nikolas Ebert, Oliver Wasenmueller
  • "DIRT-SR38: A Real Paired Cross-Sensor Thermal Sequence Dataset for Super-Resolution in Clinical Dynamic Infrared Thermography" — Warre Clarys, Simon Verspeek, Thomas De Kerf, Jan Verstockt, Steve Vanlanduit, Filip Thiessen, Gunther Steenackers
  • "An End-to-End Trainable Multi-Scale CRF Framework for Decision Fusion in Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Classification" — Ushasi Chaudhuri, Papia Mahato, Shailesh Deshpande, Biplab Banerjee
  • "Approximate or Perish: Spectral MLP-KAN Diffusion with Attentive Function Learning for Unsupervised Hyperspectral Image Restoration" — Hongcheng Jiang, Jingtang Ma, Gaoyuan Du, Jingchen Sun, Gengyuan Zhang, Zejun Zhang, Kai Luo
  • "Self-supervised Diffusion-guided Hallucination-free Thermal Infrared Image Denoising" — Felix Hazebrouck, Alexander Schock-Schmidtke, Norbert Stuhrmann, Johannes Fottner, Michael Teutsch
13:00 End of Workshop