Submissions regarding the analysis and understanding of images/videos acquired during winter activities are welcome to our workshop. The following topics serve as examples:

• Machine learning solutions for video understanding or activity recognition regarding winter sports

• Pose estimation of athletes

• Evaluation and measurement of athlete performance

• Performance forecasting

• Detection/evaluation/prevention of injuries in winter sports with computer vision

• Crowd and spectators monitoring

• Augmented/virtual reality for winter sports and fan engagement

• Applications of computer vision/AI to winter sports (skiing, ice-hockey, ice-skating,
  biathlon, bobsleigh, luge, curling, etc.).

• Image/video understanding in winter/harsh weather conditions

• Camera pose estimation in broadcast videos

• Video-based trajectory reconstruction and analysis

• Winter scene reconstruction from images/videos

• Snow/ice measurements and analysis with computer vision

• Real-time processing algorithms

• Fusion of image/video data and other sensor data

• Datasets, benchmarks and annotations of winter sport data

There will be two submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts.

Full paper submissions should propose comprehensive and well-validated solutions, and adhere to the guidelines of standard WACV 2025 submissions (max 8 pages + references). Accepted full papers will be published under the WACV 2025 workshop proceedings and included in IEEE Xplore.

Extended abstracts should be max 4 pages in length (including tables, figures and references) and can describe novel but not extensively validated ideas, ongoing works, or be recaps of recently published papers (either journal or conference). The accepted abstracts will be published under an arXiv compendium.

All submissions should be compiled for double-blind review, adopt the standard WACV 2025 template (Overleaf template, ZIP Archive), and be submitted via the workshop's CMT platform:

 https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CV4WS2025

Please select the appropriate track for your submission ("Full Papers" or "Extended Abstracts"). 

Special issue. We plan to invite a selection of authors, along with a recap paper featuring submissions to the SkiTB challenge, to contribute to a special issue of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). This special issue will encompass broader topics in sports as well. 

Important dates for full paper submissions:

• 22 November 2024, 2024 23:59 PST: full paper submission due

• 30 November 2024, 2024 23:59 PST: full paper submission due

• December 18, 2024: notification to authors of full paper submissions

• December 31s, 2024: notification to authors of full paper submissions

• January 10, 2025 23:59 PST: full paper camera-ready papers due

Important dates for extended abstract submissions:

• December 20, 2024 23:59 PST: extended abstract due

• January 10, 2025: notification to authors of extended abstract submissions

• January 31, 2025 23:59 PST: extended abstract camera-ready papers due 

Workshop date:

• February 28 or March 3 or 4, 2025