WACV 2026 Open Access Repository

The Second Workshop on Computer Vision for Geospatial Image Analysis

Bridging the Domain Gap in Agricultural Vision: Parameter-Efficient VLM Adaptation via Expert Descriptions: Deeksha Aggarwal,

Yash Mittal,

Uttam Kumar; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Aggarwal_2026_WACV, author = {Aggarwal, Deeksha and Mittal, Yash and Kumar, Uttam}, title = {Bridging the Domain Gap in Agricultural Vision: Parameter-Efficient VLM Adaptation via Expert Descriptions}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {830-839} }
Type-Aware Ranking of Urban Similarity from Aerial Imagery: Idan Kligvasser,

Yotam Intrator,

George Leifman,

Yuval Desheh,

Aviad Barzilao,

Niv Efron,

Ehud Rivlin; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Kligvasser_2026_WACV, author = {Kligvasser, Idan and Intrator, Yotam and Leifman, George and Desheh, Yuval and Barzilao, Aviad and Efron, Niv and Rivlin, Ehud}, title = {Type-Aware Ranking of Urban Similarity from Aerial Imagery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {821-829} }
The King(dom) is Naked: Lightweight Machine Learning for Hyperspectral Bare Soil Detection: Agata M. Wijata,

Bogdan Ruszczak,

Lukasz Tulczyjew,

Nicolas Longepe,

Jakub Nalepa; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Wijata_2026_WACV, author = {Wijata, Agata M. and Ruszczak, Bogdan and Tulczyjew, Lukasz and Longepe, Nicolas and Nalepa, Jakub}, title = {The King(dom) is Naked: Lightweight Machine Learning for Hyperspectral Bare Soil Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {868-876} }
Satellite-Based Detection of Looted Archaeological Sites Using Machine Learning: Girmaw Abebe Tadesse,

Titien Bartette,

Andrew Hassanali,

Allen Kim,

Jonathan Chemla,

Andrew Zolli,

Yves Ubelmann,

Caleb Robinson,

Inbal Becker-Reshef,

Juan Lavista Ferres; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Tadesse_2026_WACV, author = {Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe and Bartette, Titien and Hassanali, Andrew and Kim, Allen and Chemla, Jonathan and Zolli, Andrew and Ubelmann, Yves and Robinson, Caleb and Becker-Reshef, Inbal and Ferres, Juan Lavista}, title = {Satellite-Based Detection of Looted Archaeological Sites Using Machine Learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {840-848} }
Contrast then Confidence (C2): Contrastive Pretraining for Uncertainty-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection in Satellite Imagery: Rawhatur Rabbi,

Fabliha Afaf Sarwar,

Md Farhadul Islam,

Tashik Ahmed,

Sidu Rudro,

Md. Mahfujur Rahman,

Meem Arafat Manab,

Jannatun Noor Mukta; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Rabbi_2026_WACV, author = {Rabbi, Rawhatur and Sarwar, Fabliha Afaf and Islam, Md Farhadul and Ahmed, Tashik and Rudro, Sidu and Rahman, Md. Mahfujur and Manab, Meem Arafat and Mukta, Jannatun Noor}, title = {Contrast then Confidence (C2): Contrastive Pretraining for Uncertainty-Aware Out-of-Distribution Detection in Satellite Imagery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {877-885} }
GLACIA: Instance-Aware Positional Reasoning for Glacial Lake Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Model: Lalit Maurya,

Saurabh Kaushik,

Beth Tellman; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Maurya_2026_WACV, author = {Maurya, Lalit and Kaushik, Saurabh and Tellman, Beth}, title = {GLACIA: Instance-Aware Positional Reasoning for Glacial Lake Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Model}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {767-776} }
Gradient-Based Active Learning for Geospatial Semantic Segmentation with Large Vision Models: Ryan Faulkenberry,

Saurabh Prasad; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Faulkenberry_2026_WACV, author = {Faulkenberry, Ryan and Prasad, Saurabh}, title = {Gradient-Based Active Learning for Geospatial Semantic Segmentation with Large Vision Models}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {810-820} }
Foundation Models for Phenotyping Segmentation of Wheat Stripe Rust Resistance from UAV Hyperspectral Images: Jie Deng,

Tailai Chen,

Chenyu Li,

Danfeng Hong; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Deng_2026_WACV, author = {Deng, Jie and Chen, Tailai and Li, Chenyu and Hong, Danfeng}, title = {Foundation Models for Phenotyping Segmentation of Wheat Stripe Rust Resistance from UAV Hyperspectral Images}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {849-858} }
RAVEN: A Rapid Agentic Vision Framework for Emergency Response in Vulnerable Settlements: Arkadip Maitra,

Suvajit Patra,

Sumantro Mukherjee; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Maitra_2026_WACV, author = {Maitra, Arkadip and Patra, Suvajit and Mukherjee, Sumantro}, title = {RAVEN: A Rapid Agentic Vision Framework for Emergency Response in Vulnerable Settlements}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {777-785} }
On-the-Fly OVD Adaptation with FLAME: Few-shot Localization via Active Marginal-Samples Exploration: Yehonathan Refael,

Amit Aides,

Aviad Barzilai,

George Leifman,

Vered Silverman,

Bolous Jaber,

Genady Beryozkin; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Refael_2026_WACV, author = {Refael, Yehonathan and Aides, Amit and Barzilai, Aviad and Leifman, George and Silverman, Vered and Jaber, Bolous and Beryozkin, Genady}, title = {On-the-Fly OVD Adaptation with FLAME: Few-shot Localization via Active Marginal-Samples Exploration}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {886-894} }
Segment Anything but Farms: Comparing Segmentation Paradigms for Rural UAV Captured Ultra-High-Resolution Imagery: Snehalraj Chugh,

Dharmendra Singh Chaudhary,

Subash Sidgel,

Shubham Thapa,

Lalit BC,

Nishan Ghimire,

Bipendra Basnyat,

Nirmalya Roy; [pdf] [supp]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chugh_2026_WACV, author = {Chugh, Snehalraj and Chaudhary, Dharmendra Singh and Sidgel, Subash and Thapa, Shubham and BC, Lalit and Ghimire, Nishan and Basnyat, Bipendra and Roy, Nirmalya}, title = {Segment Anything but Farms: Comparing Segmentation Paradigms for Rural UAV Captured Ultra-High-Resolution Imagery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {895-903} }
Point-to-dense supervision framework for SAM based remote sensing segmentation with prototype refinement and structure aware, confidence guided topology learning: Anisha Chakravorty,

Shounak Chakraborty; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Chakravorty_2026_WACV, author = {Chakravorty, Anisha and Chakraborty, Shounak}, title = {Point-to-dense supervision framework for SAM based remote sensing segmentation with prototype refinement and structure aware, confidence guided topology learning}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {859-867} }
Agentic AI in Remote Sensing: Foundations, Taxonomy, and Emerging Systems: Niloufar Alipour Talemi,

Julia Boone,

Fatemeh Afghah; [pdf] [supp] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Talemi_2026_WACV, author = {Talemi, Niloufar Alipour and Boone, Julia and Afghah, Fatemeh}, title = {Agentic AI in Remote Sensing: Foundations, Taxonomy, and Emerging Systems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {786-799} }
Multi-Receptive Field Ensemble with Cross Entropy Masking for Class Imbalance in Remote Sensing Change Detection: Humza Naveed,

Xina Zeng,

Mitch Bryson,

Nagita Mehrseresht; [pdf] [arXiv]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Naveed_2026_WACV, author = {Naveed, Humza and Zeng, Xina and Bryson, Mitch and Mehrseresht, Nagita}, title = {Multi-Receptive Field Ensemble with Cross Entropy Masking for Class Imbalance in Remote Sensing Change Detection}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {759-766} }
Unsupervised Spatially Aware Gaussian Mixture Model via Implicit Deep Priors: Herbert Rakotonirina,

Theophile Lohier,

Julien Baptiste; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Rakotonirina_2026_WACV, author = {Rakotonirina, Herbert and Lohier, Theophile and Baptiste, Julien}, title = {Unsupervised Spatially Aware Gaussian Mixture Model via Implicit Deep Priors}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {749-758} }
K-Vehicles: A Remote Sensing Dataset for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery: Leo Thomas Ramos,

Edmundo Casas,

Cristian Romero,

Francklin Rivas-Echeverría; [pdf]
[bibtex]
@InProceedings{Ramos_2026_WACV, author = {Ramos, Leo Thomas and Casas, Edmundo and Romero, Cristian and Rivas-Echeverr{\'\i}a, Francklin}, title = {K-Vehicles: A Remote Sensing Dataset for Vehicle Detection in Aerial Imagery}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops}, month = {March}, year = {2026}, pages = {800-809} }