The landscape of surveillance is undergoing a profound transformation. As the premier forum for advancements in video, audio, and sensor-based monitoring, AVSS has always been at the forefront of security technology. In 2026, we embrace a broader, more impactful mission. The theme ““Expanding Horizons in Security, Safety, and Societal Monitoring”” reflects our commitment to not only advance traditional security applications but also to explore how these technologies are redefining safety, health, and sustainability in our interconnected world.
We invite researchers, engineers, practitioners, and visionaries from academia, industry, and government to join us in shaping the future of intelligent monitoring systems. Submit your groundbreaking work and be a part of the conversation that moves beyond observation towards understanding, prediction, and enhancement of the human and environmental condition.
AVSS 2026 welcomes high-quality contributions in both the established core of signal-based surveillance and the new, rapidly emerging frontiers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: TRADITIONAL CORE DOMAINS
• Video Surveillance & Analytics: Scene understanding, crowd analysis, anomaly detection, real-time processing.
• Signal Processing for Surveillance: Advanced algorithms for audio, video, and multi-sensor signals. .
• Object Detection & Tracking: Across multiple cameras, in complex environments, for pedestrians, vehicles, and UAVs. .
• Behavioral Analysis & Activity Recognition: From individual actions to complex group interactions. .
• Biometrics & Forensics: Face recognition, re-identification, and forensic video analysis. .
• Security & Privacy: Secure systems, data integrity, encryption, and privacy-preserving surveillance (e.g., federated learning, anonymization). .
• Healthcare and Assisted Living: Remote patient monitoring, fall detection, activity recognition for elderly care, surgical workflow analysis, emotion and stress monitoring.
• Medical Imaging for Safety & Security: Medical video analysis (e.g., endoscopy, microscopy), monitoring for patient safety in clinical settings, security applications of imaging techniques like X-ray and thermal.
• Environmental & Ecological Surveillance: AI for biodiversity monitoring, animal tracking and behavior analysis, poaching prevention, pollution and wildfire detection via satellite/UAV video.
• Smart Cities & Infrastructure Monitoring: Traffic management and optimization, structural health monitoring of bridges and roads, utility network surveillance, and large-scale urban dynamics analysis.
• Multimodal Sensor Fusion & AI-Driven Situational Awareness: Fusion of video, audio, LiDAR, radar, and IoT data. Large-scale models for surveillance, generative AI for data synthesis and simulation, and explainable AI for critical decision-making.
AVSS 2026 invites submissions of full papers and, for the first time.
• Full Papers (6 pages including references): Presenting mature and complete research with substantial contributions and validated results.
• Submissions must adhere to the IEEE double-column format and are limited to six pages, including figures, tables, and references. All accepted papers presented at AVSS 2026 will be included in the conference proceedings and published in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
Submissions can be made through the CMT online portal at:https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/.
The paper review process will be double-blind to ensure fairness and impartiality.
| Paper submission Round 1 | February 28, 2026 |
| Author Notification Round 1 | April 1, 2026 |
| Paper submission Round 2 | May 4, 2026 |
| Camera ready paper due | June 1, 2026 |
| Author Notification Round 2 | June 5, 2026 |
| Author registration deadline (early) | June 30, 2026 |
| Main Conference Dates | 1-3 September 2026 |
| Venue: Charles V Castle, Lecce, Italy | |
The paper submission templates are available on IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
If you need support write to papers@avss2026.org
The Final Camera Ready must meet the formatting submission guidelines:
Final Camera Ready must be in English, it must be formatted using the IEEE 2-column format, and not exceeding 6 pages for full papers (including references).
Ensure that all author-related information is included in the manuscript (this includes names, affiliations, and acknowledgments). Remove copyright notice, headers, page numbers from your source document. The paper submission templates are available on IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Final Camera Ready must be submitted to the PDF eXpress site for verification (Step 1). The verified PDF file from PDF eXpress must be uploaded at the CMT paper submission site (Step 2), and IEEE Electronic Copyright Transfer for your paper must be approved (step 3).
The deadline for the camera-ready paper is July 1, 2026.
Note: Authors of accepted workshop papers must first register their paper via CMT under the 'Workshops Camera Ready' track https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FAVSS2026
Prepare IEEE Xplore compatible PDF using PDF eXpress.
1. Go to PDFeXpress website ( https://ieee-pdf-express.org) , and Create your PDF eXpress Account if needed.
2. Access the IEEE PDF eXpress site at https://ieee-pdf-express.orgusing 69871X for the Conference ID, your email address, your password.
3. For each conference paper, click "Create New Title" and upload a PDF for checking or source file(s) for conversion;
Any changes made to a PDF after IEEE PDF eXpress conversion or PDF Checking may invalidate Xplore compatibility.
Help to use IEEE PDF eXpress: https://ieee-pdf-express.org/External/UsingIEEEPDFeXpress
When you have an acceptable IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF, please submit the validated Camera Ready version to CMT submission (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AVSS2026) .
From the Author Console in CMT, click on the link ‘Create Camera Ready Submission.’ and start to enter information of the paper as prompted and upload the camera ready file.
IEEE requires all authors or their employers who intend to publish in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library to provide an electronic transfer of the copyright using the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form (eCF) ( https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/copyright-policy). To submit your eCF through CMT, you must first complete the form on the IEEE eCF website and then upload the resulting PDF to CMT by following the instructions below:
1. Log in to the Microsoft CMT website ( https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AVSS2026 https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/AVSS2026) using your credentials and navigate to the Author Console.
2. Locate the link for "Submit IEEE Copyright Form" and click on it.
3. On the next page within CMT, click the provided link to be redirected to the IEEE eCF site.
4. On the IEEE eCF site, follow the wizard to complete the copyright transfer process. You will be asked to confirm article information and sign the publication agreement electronically.
• Conference ID: 69871
• Publication Title: 2026 International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS)
5. Upon completion, the site will provide an option to download the completed IEEE Copyright Form as a PDF file. Be sure to download and save this file.
6. Return to the CMT "Submit IEEE Copyright Form" page in your Author Console.
7. Upload the downloaded PDF file by either dragging and dropping it into the designated area or using the "Upload from Computer" button.
8. Click "Save" or "Submit" to finalize the upload in CMT.
The MicrosoftCMTservice was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.
