Call for Papers

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: 4th March 2026 (11:59pm AOE) 

Supplementary material deadline: 6th March 2026 (11:59pm AOE) 

Openreview Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/MetaFood

The Best Paper will be selected in Mid April and will receive a complimentary full conference registration, generously donated by Professor Dima Damen.

Topics Covered

MetaFood’26 will encompass a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Embodied and causal understanding of food manipulation and consumption

• Physics-informed understanding and 3D reconstruction of deformable, fragile, and multi-material food

• Temporal modeling of food transformations and continuous state estimation (e.g., cooking or eating )

• Vision–language reasoning, in-context learning, and retrieval-augmented generation for food

• Multimodal learning across images, videos, audio, and structured/unstructured text

• Self-supervised, continual, semi-supervised, and weakly supervised learning for in-the-wild food data

• Uncertainty modeling and learning from noisy or ambiguous labels

• Food portion, volume, and nutrition estimation

• Food image and video generation using generative AI

• 2D/3D classification, detection, and segmentation of food items and ingredients

• Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2026/Workshop/MetaFood

• We welcome full paper submissions and extended abstract submissions. Only accepted full paper submissions will be included in the CVPR 2026 conference proceedings. 

• Guidelines specific to full paper submissions:

  1. Papers must have a minimum of 4 pages (and max 8 pages). These page limits are excluding references and supplementary material.

  2. Dual submission are not allowed. Papers submitted to this track must be original research. It is not allowed to submit a paper substantially similar in content to a paper that has been accepted or is under consideration at another archival venue (conference or workshop with proceedings). During the review process, or after acceptance, papers submitted to this track cannot be submitted to another archival venue, unless substantial new material is added.

• Guidelines specific to extended abstract submissions:

  1. There is no minimum number of pages, only a maximum of 8 pages. Please note that many venues, such as CVPR, consider extended abstracts of 5 or more pages as published work. We encourage authors to submit a version of no more than 4 pages if they plan to submit the work elsewhere.

  2. Dual submissions are allowed for this track. The goal of this track is to give authors an opportunity to present recent work relevant to the MetaFood community. The review process for this track will be relatively light and will mainly focus on whether the topic of the paper is suitable for this workshop.

• Both full paper submissions and extended abstract submissions must follow CVPR 2026 author guidelines, including the template and double blind policy https://cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/2026/AuthorGuidelines