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On 3–7 June, CMAI researchers participated in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026, held in Denver, Colorado, USA. CVPR is widely regarded as the premier annual conference in computer vision and one of the most prestigious venues in AI, bringing together leading researchers from academia and industry worldwide.

The following papers authored or co-authored by CMAI researchers were presented at CVPR 2026:

Main Conference

• Diffusion-Based Makeup Transfer with Facial Region-Aware Makeup Features
  Zheng Gao, Debin Meng, Yunqi Miao, Zhensong Zhang, Songcen Xu, Ioannis Patras, Jifei Song
• Deconstructing the Failure of Ideal Noise Correction: A Three-Pillar Diagnosis
  Chen Feng, Zhuo Zhi, Zhao Huang, Jiawei Ge, Ling Xiao, Nicu Sebe, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Ioannis Patras
• A Closed-Form Solution for Debiasing Vision-Language Models with Utility Guarantees Across Modalities and Tasks
  Tangzheng Lian, Guanyu Hu, Yijing Ren, Dimitrios Kollias, Oya Celiktutan

• Restore, Assess, Repeat: A Unified Framework for Iterative Image Restoration
  I-Hsiang Chen, Isma Hadji, Enrique Sanchez, Adrian Bulat, Sy-Yen Kuo, Radu Timofte, Georgios Tzimiropoulos, Brais Martinez

Findings

• V-STaR: Benchmarking Video-LLMs on Video Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
  Zixu Cheng, Jian Hu, Ziquan Liu, Chenyang Si, Wei Li, Shaogang Gong

In addition to research paper presentations, CMAI researchers played a leading role in the organisation of two CVPR 2026 workshops and competitions, contributing to scientific exchange, community building and benchmarking efforts across several rapidly advancing areas of AI.

The following workshops and competitions were organised by CMAI researchers:

• 10th Workshop and Competition on Affective & Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Workshop and Competition (General Chair: Dimitrios Kollias)

• PHAROS AI Factory for Medical Imaging & Healthcare (PHAROS-AIF-MIH) Workshop and Competition (Program co-Chair: Dimitrios Kollias)