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.
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening Remarks and Workshop Overview |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Invited Talk 1: Qixing Huang UT Austin |
| 10:00 – 10:40 | Morning Coffee Break Malmömässan Exhibit Hall |
| 10:40 – 11:25 | Invited Talk 2: Zorah Lähner University of Bonn |
| 11:25 – 11:30 | Sponsor Presentation: Proxima Fusion |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | Invited Talk 3: Emanuele Rodolà Sapienza University of Rome |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | Lunch Break Malmö Arena – Arena Room |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Invited Talk 4: Kostas Daniilidis UPenn |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Invited Talk 5: Vladislav Golyanik MPI |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Flash Talks: 8 spotlight presentations 90 seconds each |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Poster Session & Afternoon Coffee Exhibit Hall |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Invited Talk 6: Jeong Joon Park UMich |
| 16:45 – 17:00 | Closing Remarks |
All 22 papers are presented at the poster session (15:00–16:00, Malmömässan Exhibit Hall, boards 454–476). Eight papers are additionally featured as flash talks. Nectar Track papers link to their officially published version.
Novel contributions and recently published work both welcome.
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.
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 Hence, they will not be published again as part of the workshop proceedings.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:
Have questions about the workshop? Reach out to the organizers.