COMPUTATIONAL OPTICAL MICROSCOPY

Workshop Scope

Optical (light) microscopy enables acquisition of visual information about samples across spatial, spectral, and temporal dimensions in a noninvasive manner. Throughout its long history, advancements in light microscopy have continuously pushed the limits of the information that can be captured along these dimensions. 

Computational microscopy approaches merge the design of hardware (light sources, optics, sensors) with computational algorithms for image reconstruction, enhancement, and analysis. This integration expands the information content beyond that of traditional microscopy and enables new functionalities such as snapshot 3D imaging. Progress in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has further accelerated developments by enabling data-driven optimization. Nevertheless, these methods introduce challenges, especially in life sciences, where collecting and annotating high-quality data is often tedious and difficult to standardize. 

It is widely recognized that future advancements in the field will be driven by multidisciplinary research integrating accurate models of image formation involving complex light–matter interactions, precise optics/photonics fabrication, and advanced AI algorithms. Crucially, these components must be jointly developed and tightly coupled to the specific problem or use case at hand. This workshop, thus, aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from Optical & Physical Sciences, Computing Sciences, and Biomedical & Life Sciences to promote collaboration and inspire future innovations in computational microscopy. 

Example topics of interest: 

• Snapshot 3D (volumetric) fluorescence microscopy

• Quantitative phase imaging

• Computational microscopy with learned optics/illumination

• Computational models of tissue optics and scattering

• Machine learning for biomedical image reconstruction and analysis

• Datasets for microscopy: acquisition, annotation, curation

Submission Instructions

Submission link: https://icip2026.exordo.com/
Select the Satellite Workshops track, and choose the appropriate workshop from the list of Topics.

We invite prospective authors to submit their original contributions within the scope of computational optical microscopy to the workshop. Example topics of interest can be found above.

Submitted papers must conform to the style, format, and length requirements of the main ICIP 2026 conference. For detailed instructions related to manuscript formatting and templates, please see the Author Kit on the main conference site.

Workshop papers will undergo a double-blind review process. Please refer to the ICIP main track submission guidelines for further details on the double-blind policy. Unlike main track papers, the review process for workshop papers does not include a rebuttal period, due to the tight turnaround schedule. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore ICIP 2026 Workshop Proceedings.