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Geometric Intelligence:
From Vision to Scientific Discovery

ECCV 2026 Workshop  ·  Date: Sept. 08th Full day  ·  6 invited talks Malmö, Sweden

Vision models excel at capturing spatial structures, scientific applications demand a higher standard: models must be reliable, interpretable, and strictly bound by physical laws rather than just visually plausible. This workshop positions geometry as the fundamental bridge between these two worlds, exploring how spatial inductive biases, symmetry, and structured representations can empower machine learning models to look beyond the surface, moving from simply seeing the world to reasoning, generalizing, and uncovering the hidden structural principles of the natural sciences.

Our topics include but are not limited to:

  • Geometric deep learning and equivariance
  • Geometry-aware 3D vision and neural scene representations
  • Physics-aware and simulation-informed models
  • Geometric structures for scientific discovery
  • Foundation models for geometric and physical reasoning
  • Symmetry and invariance in visual perception
  • Topological data analysis and deep learning
  • Structured representations for 3D scene understanding
  • Applications in biology, robotics, and materials science

Keynote Speakers

Qixing Huang
UT Austin
Zorah Lähner
University of Bonn
Emanuele Rodolà
Sapienza University of Rome
Kostas Daniilidis
University of Pennsylvania
Vladislav Golyanik
MPI for Informatics
Jeong Joon Park
University of Michigan

Call for Papers

Novel contributions and recently published work both welcome.

Submission Tracks

  • 4-page extended abstracts — Position papers, preliminary results, or work in progress.
  • 8-page non-archival papers — Full workshop publications.
  • Nectar track — Articles already published, or at least accepted for publication, elsewhere in 2025–2026 (e.g. ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, PAMI, IJCV) are welcome to submit for presentation at the workshop.

Double-blind peer review. Accepted papers are non-archival.
The page limit applies to the main paper only. References and an appendix/supplementary material may be included in addition and do not count towards the page limit.
All submissions must use the ECCV 2026 template.
Submit via the OpenReview portal.

Important Dates

  • Submission DeadlineJul. 13, 2026 Jul. 20, 2026
  • Author NotificationJul. 24, 2026 Jul. 31, 2026
  • Camera-ReadyAug. 15, 2026
  • Paper presentationSep.8 2026

Nectar Track Details

Articles in the Nectar Track are articles that were already published, or at least accepted for publication, elsewhere in 2025–2026. Hence, they will not be published again as part of the workshop proceedings. We strongly encourage submitting conference and journal articles from such venues as ICCV, ECCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, ICML, PAMI, IJCV, etc.

The submission guidelines are as follows:

  • The article must be submitted as a single PDF file in OpenReview. Ideally, submit the already published paper.
  • As for other tracks, at least one author of the article must be present at the conference.
  • The submission should not be anonymized, i.e., author names and, possibly, contact information and affiliation should be provided on the title page of the article.
  • Article length is not restricted. Its content must match that of the published version, although its formatting may differ.

Organizing Committee

Lennart Bastian
Imperial College London
Maolin Gao
TU Munich & MCML
Yizheng Xie
Simon Fraser University
Congyue Deng
MIT
Lily Goli
University of Toronto
Riccardo Marin
TU Munich & MCML
Tolga Birdal
Imperial College London
Andrea Tagliasacchi
Simon Fraser University
Bill Freeman
MIT & Google DeepMind
Leonidas Guibas
Stanford & Google DeepMind
Daniel Cremers
TU Munich & MCML

Contact

Have questions about the workshop? Reach out to the organizers.

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