High Visual Computing 2026
The eleventh meeting of the Czech and Slovak image processing, computer graphics and computer vision people in the mountains. The event will take place January 28 - January 31, 2026 at High Tatra Mountains (aka Vysoké Tatry, Tatry Wysokie, Hohe Tatra, Magas-Tátra), Slovakia in Congress Centre ACADEMIA https://kcacademia.sav.sk/ (see the map).
The goal of the meeting is to encourage exchange of ideas between researchers and practitioners in the fields of image processing, computer graphics and computer vision from across the Czech and Slovak Republics and beyond. There will be many (optional) outdoor activities possible during the day and fruitful talks, discussions and socializing in the afternoons and evenings.
The prices negotiated with the Congress Centre ACADEMIA are as follows:
- single occupancy (of a double room) 240 EUR per person for 3 nights, 3x half board
- non-single occupancy (in double rooms, with option of third bed) 180 EUR per person for 3 nights, 3x half board
Frequently Asked Questions:
Q: How do I register?
A:
Please fill out the form. While registering, you will be asked to include the title and a short
abstract of your offered 20 minute talk. Sending your abstract does not necessarily mean you will be selected to present, but the title and abstract are still a strict requirement for the registration - intended to keep the standard of the presented material consistently high. Remember: one person registered = one talk title/abstract. Once you fill out the form and you book accommodation at the hotel, take the registration as confirmed.
Q: I am from a company and I do not have anything "sciency" enough to show. May I still come?
A: By all means! We are eager to learn what your company works on and what you work on in the company, what interesting open problems you might have, etc. That said, no shameless corporate advertising, please.
Q: What is the conference fee and how do I pay it?
A: There is no conference fee per se. All you need to do is pay for your food and accommodation on the spot at the hotel. We will *not* be collecting your money.
Q: Do I need to look for accomodation?
A: Yes, please book your room by sending an email to recepcia@kcacademia.sk (CC to hacklova@sisal.mff.cuni.cz) with the subject of your email HiVisComp 2026. Please, indicate the dates of your stay, in case of family groups also number of persons (adults and children) and the billing address to which you wish to have your invoice issued. If you know who you would like to share a room with, you can make a reservation for both of you at once. Everyone is staying in the same hotel, which is pre-booked for us. There is no pre-payment this time, payment for your reservation will be made at the hotel. Should you have any special requirements concerning accommodation or food, please contact Radka Hacklova.
Q: Do I need to take care of my travel arrangements?
A: Yes, travel is up to you. We will send an info email about this to all the registered participants in due time.
Q: Summing it all up, what’s the timeline between now and the conference?
A: Easy. You fill out the registration form, including the offered talk abstract, before the submission deadline. Then you need to book your room by the deadline. By the end of November, we will assemble the program from the offered talks and post it online. In December, we will send an email with practical information to all registered participants. You will have more than one month to arrange your travel. You are expected to arrive to the hotel by the afternoon on the first HiVisComp day, where we’ll have dinner and the conference program will start right after the dinner.
Invited Speakers:
Speaker 1: John Collomosse, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
John Collomosse is a Professor of Computer Vision and AI at the University of Surrey where he is the founder and director of DECaDE, the UKRI Next Stage Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy. He is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Chartered Engineer and Senior Member of IEEE. From 2018-2024 he was on the UKRI/EPSRC advisory team for Information & Communication Technologies (ICT). He is concurrently a Senior Principal Scientist and distinguished inventor at Adobe Research, where he manages the research programme for Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and is a core technical advisor to the initiative since his involvement in co-founding the CAI in 2019. Now with 5000+ members, CAI leads a cross-industry standards group (C2PA; Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) where John chairs the cross-industry task forces on watermarking, and distributed ledgers (Blockchain). John’s research intersects Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), with focus on media provenance to fight misinformation and online harms, and on improving data integrity and attribution for responsible AI. John’s content watermarking and fingerprinting research is used to protect millions of images across Adobe’s platforms such as Adobe Content Authenticity, Photoshop, Lightroom and Firefly. John has also pioneered several visual search technologies, such as style, sketch and pose based search that have shipped in products such as Behance. Notably, he led the ARCHANGEL project which pioneered use of AI and Blockchain to tamper-proof National Archives around the world and was called out as a highlight of the 10 year UK Science Council (EPSRC) Digital Economy research programme. John has presented to various government bodies on provenance, authenticity and AI opt out including the European Commission, UK House of Lords and APPG Blockchain. During 2025 he was involved in the Royal Society Pairing Scheme, embedding with the DSIT disinformation capability and policy teams. John’s early research developed some of the first computer vision based technologies to create the kind of non-photorealistic (artistic) filtering effects now commonly found in products like Photoshop, and was featured in the BBC, New Scientist among others. John has also spent previous periods of time in industry R&D elsewhere, including a Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship at HP Labs, and at Vodafone R&D Munich, and IBM Research Hursley.
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Important Dates:
- Deadline for talk proposals: November 15, 2025
- Meeting: January 28 - January 31, 2026
Venue:
Congress Centre ACADEMIA https://kcacademia.sav.sk/ (see the map), High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia.Programme and Organization Committee:
Duties: scientific program, selection of beer and everything else.
Sponsoring: