The General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania is proud to share all of the ways that GRASP students and faculty are involved with the 2026 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) taking place in Denver, Colorado, from June 3rd to 7th, 2026.

Wednesday, June 3, 2026
8:00 AM to 1:00 PM
The 5th Explainable AI for Computer Vision (XAI4CV) Workshop at CVPR 2026
Accepted Paper, Non-Proceedings Track:
Hierarchical Concept Embedding & Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
Nghia Nguyen, Tianjiao Ding, and Rene Vidal
8:25 AM to 12:30 PM
AI for Content Creation Workshop
Organizer: Lingjie Liu
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
From Labs to Life: Embodied Intelligence in the Wild CVPR 2026 Workshop
Organizer: Lingjie Liu
1:00 PM to 6:10 PM
10th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW)
Accepted Paper:
VGGT-HPE: Reframing Head Pose Estimation as Relative Pose Prediction
Vasiliki Vasileiou, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Maragos, and Kostas Daniilidis
1:35 PM to 2:05 PM
The 3rd Workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation (EDGE)
Invited Speaker: Jiatao Gu
“Are Normalizing Flows Good Candidates for Interactive World Models?”
2:30 PM to 3:00 PM
The 5th Workshop on Transformers for Vision and Multimodal AI (T4V)
Invited Speaker: Jiatao Gu
3:15 PM to 3:45 PM
Sense of Space: Multi-Sensory Modeling for Embodied Intelligence
Keynote Speaker: Lingjie Liu
3:40 PM to 4:30 PM
From Labs to Life: Embodied Intelligence in the Wild CVPR 2026 Workshop
Invited Speaker: Jiatao Gu
“Should Embodied Intelligence Care About 3D?”
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
12th CVPR Workshop on Medical Computer Vision
Keynote Speaker: René Vidal
“Trustworthy AI in Health: Foundation Models for Radiology, Cardiology and Autism Diagnosis”
Thursday, June 4, 2026
8:45 AM to 5:00 PM
4th Workshop on Generative Models for Computer Vision
Best Paper Award! Accepted Paper:
Wei Cao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Hao Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Fengrui Tian, Yulun Wu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Yingying Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Shenlong Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ning Yu (Eyeline Labs), and Yaoyao Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Third Workshop on Visual Concepts
Accepted Paper:
Entropy-based Patchification Creates Semantic Tokens
Suhao Yu, Jingjia Peng, Yao Tang, and Jiatao Gu
11:00 AM to 11:40 AM
2nd Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning
Invited Speaker: Jiatao Gu
“Reasoning in Continuous Space”
11:15 AM to 11:45 AM
CVPR 2026 Workshop on 3D Scene Understanding for Vision, Graphics, and Robotics
Invited Speaker: Lingjie Liu
1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
2nd 4D Vision Workshop Modeling the Dynamic World
Oral Session Accepted Paper:
Wei Cao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Hao Zhang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Fengrui Tian, Yulun Wu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Yingying Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Shenlong Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Ning Yu (Eyeline Labs), and Yaoyao Liu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Accepted Paper:
PointAction: 3D Points as Universal Action Representations for Robot Control
Mutian Tong, Han Jiang, Qiao Feng, Lingjie Liu, and Jiatao Gu
1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Foundation Models Meet Embodied Agents
Organizer: Jiatao Gu
1:00 PM to 6:00 PM
4D World Models: Bridging Generation and Reconstruction
Organizer: Lingjie Liu
4:00 PM to 4:30 PM
The Seventh Annual Embodied Artificial Intelligence Workshop
Invited Speaker: Dinesh Jayaraman
“Coding Agent-Driven Robot Learning”
Friday, June 5, 2026
10:45 AM to 12:45 PM
Poster Session 1
Hierarchical Concept Embedding & Pursuit for Interpretable Image Classification
Nghia Nguyen, Tianjiao Ding, and René Vidal
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Poster Session 2
Highlighted Paper
STARFlow-V: End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Autoregressive Normalizing Flows
Jiatao Gu, Ying Shen (Apple), Tianrong Chen (Apple), Laurent Dinh (Apple), Yuyang Wang (Apple), Miguel Angel Bautista (Apple), David Berthelot (Apple), Josh Susskind (Apple), and Shuangfei Zhai (Apple)
Saturday, June 6, 2026
11:45 AM to 1:45 PM
Poster Session 3
Dictionary-Aligned Concept Control for Safeguarding Multimodal LLMs
Jinqi Luo, Jinyu Yang (Amazon), Tal Neiman (Amazon), Lei Fan (Amazon), Bing Yin (Amazon), Son Tran (Amazon), Muburak Shah (Amazon, University of Central Florida), and René Vidal
11:45 AM to 1:45 PM
Poster Session 3
Highlighted Paper
UniPixie: Unified and Probabilistic 3D Physics Learning via Flow Matching
Qilin Huang (University of Pennsylvania, Southern University of Science and Technology), Quynh Anh Huynh, Long Le, Chen Wang, Chuhao Chen, Ryan Lucas (MIT), Eric Eaton, and Lingjie Liu
11:45 AM to 1:45 PM
Poster Session 3
Next-Scale Autoregressive Models for Text-to-Motion Generation
Zhiwei Zheng, Shibo Jin, Lingjie Liu, and Mingmin Zhao
4:45 PM to 6:45 PM
Poster Session 4
Vibe Spaces for Creatively Connecting and Expressing Visual Concepts
Huzheng Yang, Katherine Xu, Andrew Lu, Michael D. Grossberg (CUNY), Yutong Bai (UC Berkeley), and Jianbo Shi
4:45 PM to 6:45 PM
Poster Session 4
Scaling Spatial and Temporal Context for Robotic Imitation Learning Policies With Scene Graphs
Jianing Qian, Qinhe Peng, Emmanuel Panov (RAI Institute), Leonor Fermoselle (RAI Institute), Dinesh Jayaraman, Bernadette Bucher (University of Michigan), and Tarik Kelestemur (RAI Institute)
Sunday, June 7, 2026
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Poster Session 6
ActiveGrasp: Information-Guided Active Grasping with Calibrated Energy-based Model
Boshu Lei, Wen Jiang, and Kostas Daniilidis
3:30 PM to 5:30 PM
Poster Session 6
Highlighted Paper
tttLRM: Test-Time Training for Long Context and Autoregressive 3D Reconstruction
Chen Wang, Hao Tan (Adobe Research), Wang Yifan (Adobe Research), Zhiqin Chen (Adobe Research), Yuheng Liu (UCI), Kalyan Sunkavalli (Adobe Research), Sai Bi (Adobe Research), Lingjie Liu, and Yiwei Hu (Adobe Research)
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