Eyes of the FutureWACV 2027
Smart Eyewear Lab

3rd edition · IEEE/CVF WACV 2027

Eyes of the Future (EOF)

Deployable Vision and AI for Smart Eyewear

A half-day workshop on deployable computer vision and AI for smart eyewear, spanning egocentric perception, gaze, embedded intelligence and wearable sensing.

Call for Papers View Program

Smart eyewear is an emerging real-world platform for computer vision, offering an always-available first-person view for accessibility, navigation and augmented reality. EOF brings together researchers and practitioners in computer vision, embedded AI, eye tracking and human-computer interaction, with smart glasses as the primary domain and related XR, wearable and mobile platforms explicitly welcome.

Workshop organized by the Smart Eyewear Lab (SEL), a joint research centre between EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano.

Timeline

Dates

Submission and camera-ready deadlines are at 11:59 PM in the timezone indicated below.

  1. Paper submission deadline · AoE
  2. Author notification
  3. Camera-ready deadline · Pacific Time
  4. EOF workshop · Orlando, Florida

Contribute

Call for Papers

We invite original, unpublished papers addressing one or more of the following topics.

01

Efficient vision

Real-time, low-latency, compact and resource-aware vision models.

02

Egocentric perception

Action recognition, activity anticipation, scene understanding and 3D mapping.

03

Eye & gaze

Eye tracking, gaze estimation, near-eye sensing and gaze-aware interaction.

04

Multimodal wearables

Sensor fusion, context-aware assistants and vision-language models for wearables.

05

Low-power sensing

Event-based, neuromorphic and low-power sensing and processing.

06

Responsible deployment

Privacy-preserving learning, on-device robustness, safety and fairness safeguards.

07

Datasets & benchmarks

New datasets, standardized benchmarks and reproducible evaluation protocols.

08

Applications

Navigation assistance, accessibility tools, translation, memory recall and AR overlays.

  • A
    Paper format

    5–8 pages

    Archival regular papers of 5–8 pages, excluding references, following the WACV workshop paper formatting guidelines.

  • B
    Review

    Double-blind via OpenReview

    Every submission will undergo double-blind peer review through OpenReview and receive at least three reviews.

  • C
    Presentation

    Pitch + poster

    All accepted papers will be presented through a short oral pitch and a poster at the in-person workshop.

  • D
    Proceedings

    WACV 2027 Workshop Proceedings

    All accepted regular papers will be published in the WACV 2027 Workshop Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore.

Heads up All co-authors need an OpenReview profile to be added to a submission. Profiles without a verified institutional email can take up to two weeks to activate — create yours well ahead of the deadline.

Half-day · single-track · in person

Program

Invited talks span sensing, embedded intelligence, gaze, egocentric perception and context understanding, alongside short paper pitches and a dedicated poster and networking block.

08:30–08:40
Opening remarks and workshop overview
Welcome
08:40–09:05
Yusuke Sugano

Yusuke Sugano · The University of Tokyo

Gaze estimation and visual attention for smart eyewear

Invited talk
09:05–09:30
Oleg Komogortsev

Oleg Komogortsev · Texas State University

Eye movements, biometrics, and privacy in wearable devices

Invited talk
09:30–09:55
Elisabetta Farella

Elisabetta Farella · Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Energy-efficient embedded AI for always-on wearable perception

Invited talk
09:55–10:25
Poster pitch presentations
Contributed papers
10:25–11:25
Coffee break, poster session, and networking
Posters & networking
11:25–11:50
Michael Goesele

Michael Goesele · Meta Reality Labs Research

Egocentric sensing and perception for smart eyewear

Invited talk
11:50–12:15
Giovanni Maria Farinella

Giovanni Maria Farinella · University of Catania

Egocentric vision for context-aware smart eyewear

Invited talk
12:15–12:30
Best Paper Award, closing remarks, and next steps

A smart eyewear device provided by EssilorLuxottica will be awarded to the best paper.

Closing

Organizing committee

Organizers

The organizing committee combines academic and industrial expertise across computer vision, wearable AI, eye tracking, efficient machine learning and smart-eyewear systems. For questions about submissions, the program or workshop participation, contact the primary organizer below.

Marco Paracchini
Primary contact

Marco Paracchini

Politecnico di Milano

Efficient egocentric perception and deployable computer vision for smart eyewear.

marcobrando.paracchini@polimi.it
Marco Cannici

Marco Cannici

EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab

Eye tracking, egocentric vision and resource-aware perception for wearable devices.

Pietro Bartoli

Politecnico di Milano

Efficient machine learning and embedded perception for wearable and human–computer interfaces.

Aurelio Teliti

Aurelio Teliti

EssilorLuxottica / Politecnico di Milano

Low-power localization, multimodal sensing and context-aware interaction for smart eyewear.

Michele Magno

Michele Magno

ETH Zurich

Edge AI, wearable sensing, TinyML and ultra-low-power embedded systems.

Luca Merigo

EssilorLuxottica Smart Eyewear Lab

Eye tracking, gaze sensing, computer vision and context-aware smart-eyewear technologies.

Workshop series

Past Editions

The current workshop and previous editions share one coherent site. Archive pages preserve their programs, speakers, awards, accepted papers and photo collections.

2024 · ECCV · Milan

ICVSE 2024

The first edition at ECCV 2024 received 16 submissions, accepted 12 papers and attracted more than 70 attendees.

Explore archive
2025 · IJCNN · Rome

IAISE 2025

The second edition at IJCNN 2025 received 9 submissions, accepted 7 papers and attracted approximately 40 attendees.

Explore archive
2027 · WACV · Florida

EOF 2027

The current edition focuses on deployable vision and AI for smart eyewear at WACV 2027.

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