MAPS - CVPR 2026 Workshop

📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) @CVPR! 🌐 sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr #CVPR2026

Don't miss our Machine Translation for Vision (MTV) challenge! Check out the full details and submission guidelines on our website: 🏆 Challenge: sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr… 🌐 Workshop Website: sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr

We are looking for papers on: ✅ Benchmarks/metrics for cultural awareness in VLMs ✅ Methodology for AI pluralism, fairness & authenticity ✅ Scaling models for low-resource data & underrepresented communities 📄 See the Call for Papers for details: sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr…

📢 Submissions are now OPEN for our @CVPR Workshop: Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS)! Help us build AI that reflects global diversity, culture, and human values. 🌍🌏🌎 📅 Mar 3 – Apr 10, 2026 📝 Short papers (4 pgs) 🔗 openreview.net/group?id=thecv… #CVPR2026

Competition Page 👉 huggingface.co/spaces/cmu-lti… Team Registration 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Dataset 👉 huggingface.co/datasets/cmu-l… More Info 👉 machine-transcreation.github.io/image-transcre…

🏆 Best paper @EMNLP2024, now a competition! 📅 Submissions open: March 3 – April 10, 2026 🤗 Submit on HuggingFace Two tracks: 🔹 Open (using open-sourced models only) 🔹 Proprietary (any use of proprietary models) Top teams invited to present at the MAPS Workshop @CVPR2026!

Introducing the Machine Translation for Vision (MTV) Challenge at #CVPR2026! Can your model localize (culturally adapt) images — not just translate text, but reimagine visuals for different cultures? 🌍

6/ 🤝 Thanks to our steering committees and co-organizers for their hard work in making the MAPS Workshop possible! @PShravannayak @simi_97k @bhatia_mehar @wregss @negar_rz @danish037 @delliott @yashgoyal_ @karstanczak @aagrawalAA

5/ ⚔️ We host a challenge on Machine Translation for Vision, which focuses on adapting images to fit different cultures while keeping their meaning. Participate today, and you could be presenting your results as a winner at the workshop! 🔗sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr…

📢Excited to announce our upcoming workshop - Multimodal Alignment for a Pluralistic Society (MAPS) @CVPR! 🌐 sites.google.com/view/maps-cvpr #CVPR2026

Couldn’t make it to the VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025? No worries — the invited talk recordings and presentation slides are now available online: 🔗 sites.google.com/view/vlms4all/…

Desmond Elliot talking about how to create multimodal resources at the @vlms4all workshop now! Drop by room 104 E!

Shravan Nayak (@PShravannayak) presenting the CulturalVQA challenge @vlms4all workshop (room: 104E). He will announce the winners soon and present some interesting analyses from the challenge results!

Diyi Yang (@Diyi_Yang) speaking at @vlms4all workshop about the limitations of LLMs wrt cultural awareness.

Presentation from the winning team of the CulturalVQA challenge @vlms4all workshop!

Presentation from the 2nd winning team of the CulturalVQA challenge @vlms4all workshop.

Sara Hooker speaking about Aya: Optimization under Severe Constraints @vlms4all workshop in room 104 E now! We also have swag: mugs, buttons and stickers! So stop-by!

Negar Rostamzadeh talking about meaningful cultural inclusion in VLMs @vlms4all workshop now in room 104E at #CVPR2025 !