WACV 2026 Open Access Repository

3rd Workshop on Computer Vision for Earth Observation (CV4EO) Applications

SPEAR: Self-Supervised Sample Efficient Pixel-Level Multi-Modal Spectral Fusion for Earth Observation Applications: Rajiv Ranjan,

Udaiveer Singh,

Anjali Aggarwal,

Shashank Tamaskar,

Dharmendra Saraswat; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ranjan_2026_WACV, author = {Ranjan, Rajiv and Singh, Udaiveer and Aggarwal, Anjali and Tamaskar, Shashank and Saraswat, Dharmendra}, title = {SPEAR: Self-Supervised Sample Efficient Pixel-Level Multi-Modal Spectral Fusion for Earth Observation Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1445-1454} }
Steering Instruction-Tuned Vision-Language Models for Multi-Label Landcover Classification: Weijia Wang,

Jichao Fang,

Wei Luo; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wang_2026_WACV, author = {Wang, Weijia and Fang, Jichao and Luo, Wei}, title = {Steering Instruction-Tuned Vision-Language Models for Multi-Label Landcover Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1475-1483} }
Under-Canopy Terrain Reconstruction in Dense Forests Using RGB Imaging and Neural 3D Reconstruction: Refael Sheffer,

Chen Pinchover,

Haim Zisman,

Dror Ozeri,

Roee Litman; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Sheffer_2026_WACV, author = {Sheffer, Refael and Pinchover, Chen and Zisman, Haim and Ozeri, Dror and Litman, Roee}, title = {Under-Canopy Terrain Reconstruction in Dense Forests Using RGB Imaging and Neural 3D Reconstruction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1363-1372} }
Prithvi-Complimentary Adaptive Fusion Encoder (CAFE): unlocking full-potential for flood inundation mapping: Saurabh Kaushik,

Lalit Maurya,

Beth Tellman; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kaushik_2026_WACV, author = {Kaushik, Saurabh and Maurya, Lalit and Tellman, Beth}, title = {Prithvi-Complimentary Adaptive Fusion Encoder (CAFE): unlocking full-potential for flood inundation mapping}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1435-1444} }
FLASH-SAR: Fast Learning Self-supervised Hierarchical Architecture for SAR: Sai Shruti Prakhya,

Uttam Kumar; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Prakhya_2026_WACV, author = {Prakhya, Sai Shruti and Kumar, Uttam}, title = {FLASH-SAR: Fast Learning Self-supervised Hierarchical Architecture for SAR}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1382-1392} }
FIRE-VLM: A Vision-Language-Driven Reinforcement Learning Framework for UAV Wildfire Tracking in a Physics-Grounded Fire Digital Twin: Chris Webb,

Mobin Habibpour,

Mayamin Hamid Raha,

Ali Reza Tavakkoli,

Janice Coen,

Fatemeh Afghah; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Webb_2026_WACV, author = {Webb, Chris and Habibpour, Mobin and Raha, Mayamin Hamid and Tavakkoli, Ali Reza and Coen, Janice and Afghah, Fatemeh}, title = {FIRE-VLM: A Vision-Language-Driven Reinforcement Learning Framework for UAV Wildfire Tracking in a Physics-Grounded Fire Digital Twin}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1493-1502} }
Accuracy versus Efficiency in Model Selection for Remote Sensing Scientific Workflows: Diellza Sherifi Iseni,

Jonathan Bader,

Francisco Mena,

Odej Kao; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Iseni_2026_WACV, author = {Iseni, Diellza Sherifi and Bader, Jonathan and Mena, Francisco and Kao, Odej}, title = {Accuracy versus Efficiency in Model Selection for Remote Sensing Scientific Workflows}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1455-1464} }
A novel reliability aware patch selection based few shot learning for target recognition and open-set identification in ill posed SAR images: Anisha Chakravorty,

Abhishek Vimukt,

Shounak Chakraborty,

Abhishek Soni; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chakravorty_2026_WACV, author = {Chakravorty, Anisha and Vimukt, Abhishek and Chakraborty, Shounak and Soni, Abhishek}, title = {A novel reliability aware patch selection based few shot learning for target recognition and open-set identification in ill posed SAR images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1503-1511} }
When Less is More: Evaluating Structural Pruning in Geospatial Foundation Models: Amina Said,

Julia Dietlmeier,

Margaret McCaul,

Noel E. O'Connor; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Said_2026_WACV, author = {Said, Amina and Dietlmeier, Julia and McCaul, Margaret and O'Connor, Noel E.}, title = {When Less is More: Evaluating Structural Pruning in Geospatial Foundation Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1403-1413} }
Multi-Label Classification in Remote Sensing: Leveraging High-Resolution Patches for Low-Resolution Tasks: Shreya Pandey,

Pragna Echuri,

Vishnu Meher Vemulapalli,

Shounak Chakraborty; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Pandey_2026_WACV, author = {Pandey, Shreya and Echuri, Pragna and Vemulapalli, Vishnu Meher and Chakraborty, Shounak}, title = {Multi-Label Classification in Remote Sensing: Leveraging High-Resolution Patches for Low-Resolution Tasks}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1512-1520} }
SSeg: Active Sparse Point-Label Augmentation for Semantic Segmentation: Cesar Borja,

Carlos Plou,

Ruben Martinez-Cantin,

Ana C. Murillo; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Borja_2026_WACV, author = {Borja, Cesar and Plou, Carlos and Martinez-Cantin, Ruben and Murillo, Ana C.}, title = {SSeg: Active Sparse Point-Label Augmentation for Semantic Segmentation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1424-1434} }
Application of AlphaEarth GeoFoundation Model for High-Accuracy Crop Yield Estimation: Jichao Fang,

Mingda Wu,

Zhou Zhang,

Wei Luo; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Fang_2026_WACV, author = {Fang, Jichao and Wu, Mingda and Zhang, Zhou and Luo, Wei}, title = {Application of AlphaEarth GeoFoundation Model for High-Accuracy Crop Yield Estimation}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1465-1474} }
DIS2: Disentanglement Meets Distillation with Classwise Attention for Robust Remote Sensing Segmentation under Missing Modalities: Nhi Kieu,

Kien Nguyen,

Arnold Wiliem,

Clinton Fookes,

Sridha Sridharan; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kieu_2026_WACV, author = {Kieu, Nhi and Nguyen, Kien and Wiliem, Arnold and Fookes, Clinton and Sridharan, Sridha}, title = {DIS2: Disentanglement Meets Distillation with Classwise Attention for Robust Remote Sensing Segmentation under Missing Modalities}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1373-1381} }
Neighborhood Feature Pooling for Remote Sensing Image Classification: Fahimeh Orvati Nia,

Amirmohammad Mohammadi,

Salim Al Kharsa,

Pragati Naikare,

Zigfried Hampel-Arias,

Joshua Peeples; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Nia_2026_WACV, author = {Nia, Fahimeh Orvati and Mohammadi, Amirmohammad and Al Kharsa, Salim and Naikare, Pragati and Hampel-Arias, Zigfried and Peeples, Joshua}, title = {Neighborhood Feature Pooling for Remote Sensing Image Classification}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1393-1402} }
Enhancing Remote Sensing Change Detection via Masked Edge Reconstruction: Shuaiyu Chen,

Fu Wang,

Tianjin Huang,

Xiang Li,

Siyang Song,

Guangliang Cheng,

Chunbo Luo,

Zeyu Fu; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chen_2026_WACV, author = {Chen, Shuaiyu and Wang, Fu and Huang, Tianjin and Li, Xiang and Song, Siyang and Cheng, Guangliang and Luo, Chunbo and Fu, Zeyu}, title = {Enhancing Remote Sensing Change Detection via Masked Edge Reconstruction}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1484-1492} }
Subimage Overlap Prediction: Task-Aligned Self-Supervised Pretraining For Semantic Segmentation In Remote Sensing Imagery: Lakshay Sharma,

Alex Marin; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Sharma_2026_WACV, author = {Sharma, Lakshay and Marin, Alex}, title = {Subimage Overlap Prediction: Task-Aligned Self-Supervised Pretraining For Semantic Segmentation In Remote Sensing Imagery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {1414-1423} }