2025 VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop

Overview

Our goal for this workshop is to educate researchers about the technological needs of people with vision impairments while empowering researchers to improve algorithms to meet these needs. A key component of this event will be to track progress on five dataset challenges, where the tasks are to classify images in a zero-shot setting, answer visual questions, ground answers, recognize visual questions with multiple answer groundings, and locate objects in few-shot learning scenarios. The second key component of this event will be a discussion about current research and application issues, including invited speakers from both academia and industry who will share their experiences in building today’s state-of-the-art assistive technologies as well as designing next-generation tools.

Important Dates

Challenges go live: Friday, January 20 (9am CST)
Abstract submissions due: Friday, May 2 (9am CST)
Challenge submissions due: Friday, May 3 (9am CST)
Abstract acceptance notifications: Friday, May 9 (5pm CST)
Half-day Workshop: TBD

Submissions

We invite two types of submissions:

Challenge Submissions

We invite submissions about algorithms for the following five challenge tasks: classify images in a zero-shot setting, answer visual questions, ground answers, recognize visual questions with multiple answer groundings, and locate objects in few-shot learning scenarios. We accept submissions for algorithms that are not published, currently under review, and already published.

The teams with the top-performing submissions will be invited to give short talks during the workshop.

Extended Abstracts

We invite submissions of extended abstracts on topics related to all challenge tasks as well as assistive technologies for people with visual impairments. Papers must be at most two pages (with references) and follow the CVPR formatting guidelines using the provided author kit. Reviewing will be single-blind and accepted papers will be presented as posters. We will accept submissions on work that is not published, currently under review, and already published. There will be no proceedings. Please send your extended abstracts to workshop@vizwiz.org.

Please note that we will require all camera-ready content to be accessible via a screen reader. Given that making accessible PDFs and presentations may be a new process for some authors, we will host training sessions beforehand to both educate and assist all authors to succeed in making their content accessible.