We welcome computer vision-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar) topics:
- estimation of position and motion of cameras and participants in sports
- tracking people and objects in sports
- activity recognition in sports
- event detection in sports
- action anticipation and prediction in sports
- spectator monitoring
- annotation and indexing in sports
- graphical effects in sports
- analysis of injuries in sports
- performance assessment in sports
- alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum)
- tactics analysis in sports
- automatic narration and captioning in sports
- training assistance in sports
- augmented/virtual reality in sports
- datasets in sports
- bias in sports
- XAI in sports
- ethics & algorithms in sports
Submission deadline: March 5, 2026 (Anywhere on Earth) – NB: Due to the very tight timeline given by CVPR chairs/IEEE for papers in proceedings, no extensions to this deadline can be given.
Submission link: Will be added soon – we will be using the OpenReview platform.
Important info: Anyone who plans to submit a paper as an author or a co-author will need to create (or update) their OpenReview profile by the paper submission deadline. Please note that if you use a non-institutional email address such as gmail.com, it can take up to two weeks to approve your OpenReview profile. Profiles tied to institutional email addresses are generally approved automatically. Plan accordingly. By submitting a paper to CVsports, the authors agree to the review process and understand that papers are processed by the OpenReview system to match each manuscript to the best possible reviewers
Nectar track
This year we invite sports related papers accepted for CVPR 2026 main conference to bring their poster for CVsports for extended reach and discussions.
Please apply by email to Rikke Gade and Albert Clapés. Include title and abstract of your paper.
Deadline: April 20.