Call for Papers

Important Dates:

• Workshop Paper submission deadline: March 4th 2025, 11:59 pm Pacific Time. March 9th 2025, 11:59 pm PST.

• Notification to authors: 1st April 2025.

• Camera ready deadline: 7th April 2025, 14th April 2025 11:59 pm PST.

CMT3 Submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/PixFoundation2025

Topics:

We encourage submissions that are under one of the topics of interest, but also we welcome other interesting and relevant research for pixel-level understanding with vision foundation models.

• Vision foundation models in pixel-level image and video understanding tasks, including: pixel-level grounding and reasoning, image segmentation, referring segmentation and its video counterpart, video segmentation, tracking, actor-action segmentation, depth estimation, motion estimation, etc.

• Adaptation, generalization, and prompting of vision foundation models.

• Interpretatibility and benchmarking of vision foundation models and their training data.

• Real-world applications with focus on the societal impact of vision foundation models

Accepted papers will be presented at the poster session, some as orals and one paper will be awarded as the best paper.

Best Paper Award:

• 1000$.

Submission Guidelines:

• We accept submissions of max 8 pages (excluding references). We encourage authors to submit 4 page work as well.

• We accept dual submissions to CVPR 2025 and PixFoundation 2025.

• Submitted manuscript should follow the CVPR 2025 paper template.

• Submissions will be rejected without review if they:

  1. Contain more than 8 pages (excluding references).

  2. Violate the double-blind policy.

  3. Violate the dual-submission policy for papers with more than 4 pages excluding references.

• The accepted papers will be in the main conference workshops proceedings if the authors agree (this option is valid only for full-length papers not published at CVPR 2025).

• Short papers should be submitted as non archival and do not need to obey the dual submission policy. Short papers should provide new findings that were not published/presented earlier. These will be linked at the workshop webpage but will not be in the main conference proceedings.

• Papers will be peer reviewed under double-blind policy, and must be submitted online through the CMT submission system.