content type eventpublished May 28, 2026
Apple is presenting new research at the annual IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), which takes place in person in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from June 3 to June 7. We are proud to sponsor the conference, which brings together the scientific and industrial research communities in computer vision and pattern recognition. Below is an overview of Apple’s participation at CVPR 2026.
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Stop by the Apple booth (#231) during exhibition hours. All times listed in MDT (local time):
- Friday, June 5: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Saturday, June 6: 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Sunday, June 7: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Schedule
Wednesday, June 3
Thursday, June 4
Friday, June 5
SPOTLIGHT POSTER, AWARD CANDIDATE
STARFlow-V: End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Normalizing Flows
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Exhibit Hall A & F, Poster Session 2, #178
Jiatao Gu, Ying Shen (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Tianrong Chen, Laurent Dinh, Yuyang Wang, Miguel Angel Bautista, David Berthelot, Josh Susskind, Shuangfei Zhai
POSTER
From Where Things Are to What They’re For: Benchmarking Spatial–Functional Intelligence for Multimodal LLMs
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Exhibition Hall A & F, Poster Session 2, #453
Le Zhang (Mila - Quebec AI Institute Université de Montréal), Jihan Yang (New York University), Soundarya Krishnan, Jimit Majmudar, Hugh Ge, Prasoon Puri, Prathamesh Saraf, Shruti Bhargava, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Yinan Ling, Cindy Pan, Hong Yu, Aishwarya Agrawal (Mila - Quebec AI Institute Université de Montréal), Andy Tseng
SPOTLIGHT POSTER, AWARD CANDIDATE
What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Exhibition Hall A & F, Poster Session 2, #457
Kedar Tatwawadi, Parisa Rahimzadeh, Zhanghao Sun, Zhiqi Chen, Ziyun Yang, Sanjay Nair, Divija Hasteer, Oren Rippel
Saturday, June 6
FINDINGS POSTER
Bootstrapping Sign Language Annotations with Sign Language Models
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM, Exhibit Hall A, Findings Posters, #035
Colin Lea, Vassilis Baltatzis, Raja Kushalnagar (Gallaudet University), Lorna Quandt (Gallaudet University), Leah Findlater, Connor Gillis
POSTER
Velox: Learning Representations of 4D Geometry and Appearance
11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, Exhibition Hall F, Poster Session 3, #527
Anagh Malik (University of Toronto), Xiaoming Zhao, Dorian Chan, David Lindell (University of Toronto), Oncel Tuzel, Rick Chang
POSTER
AMusE: Audio-Visual Benchmark and Alignment Framework for Agentic Multi-Speaker Understanding
4:45 PM - 6:45 PM, Exhibition Hall A, Poster Session 4, #146
Sanjoy Chowdhury, Karren D. Yang (Nuance Labs), Chun-Liang Li, Xudong Liu, Fartash Faghri, Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu, Oncel Tuzel, Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland, College Park), Raviteja Vemulapalli
Sunday, June 7
FINDINGS POSTER
VSAS-Bench: Real-Time Evaluation of Visual Streaming Assistant Models
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM, Exhibit Hall A, Findings Posters, #298
Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu, Cem Koc, Fartash Faghri, Chun-Liang Li, Brian Feng, Jeff Lai, Meng Cao, Oncel Tuzel, Hadi Pour Ansari
ORAL
AToken: A Unified Tokenizer For Vision
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM, Four Seasons Ballroom, Oral Session 5B: Generalization and Adaptation
Jiasen Lu, Liangchen Song, Mingze Xu, Byeongjoo Ahn, Yanjun Wang, Chen Chen, Afshin Dehghan, Yinfei Yang
POSTER
AToken: A Unified Tokenizer For Vision
11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, Exhibition Hall F, Poster Session 5, #007
Jiasen Lu, Liangchen Song, Mingze Xu, Byeongjoo Ahn, Yanjun Wang, Chen Chen, Afshin Dehghan, Yinfei Yang
POSTER
UniGen-1.5: Enhancing Image Generation and Editing through Reward Unification in Reinforcement Learning
11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, Exhibition Hall F, Poster Session 5, #069
Rui Tian (Fudan University), Mingfei Gao, Haiming Gang, Jiasen Lu, Zhe Gan, Yinfei Yang, Zuxuan Wu (Fudan University), Afshin Dehghan
POSTER
TrajTok: Learning Trajectory Tokens enables better Video Understanding
11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, Exhibition Hall F, Poster Session 5, #240
Chenhao Zheng (University of Washington), Jieyu Zhang (University of Washington), Oncel Tuzel, Chun-Liang Li, Ranjay Krishna (University of Washington)
POSTER
DSO: Direct Steering Optimization for Bias Mitigation
11:45 AM - 1:45 PM, Exhibition Hall F, Poster Session 6, #288
Lucas Monteiro Paes, Niv Sivakumar, Yinong Wang (Carnegie Mellon University), Masha Fedzechkina Donaldson, Barry Theobald, Luca Zappella, Nick Apostoloff
POSTER
Pico-Banana-400K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Exhibition Hall A, Poster Session 6, #098
Yusu Qian, Eli Bocek-Rivele, Liangchen Song, Jiasen Lu, Ashley Tong, Yinfei Yang, Wenze Hu, Zhe Gan
POSTER
SO-Bench: A Structural Output Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Exhibition Hall A, Poster Session 6, #141
Di Feng, Kaixin Ma, Feng Nan, Haofeng Chen, Bohan Zhai, David Griffiths, Mingfei Gao, Zhe Gan, Eshan Verma, Yinfei Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Afshin Dehghan
POSTER
Learning Long-term Motion Embeddings for Efficient Kinematics Generation
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Exhibition Hall A, Poster Session 6, #595
Nick Stracke (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Kolja Bauer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Stefan Andreas Baumann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), Joshua Susskind, Miguel Angel Bautista, Björn Ommer (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
Friday, June 5, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu will present VSAS-Bench: Real-Time Evaluation of Visual Streaming Assistant Models.
Friday, June 5, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Byeongjoo Ahn and Jiasen Lu will present AToken: A Unified Tokenizer For Vision.
Sanjoy Chowdhury will present AMUSE: Audio-Visual Benchmark and Alignment Framework for Agentic Multi-Speaker Understanding.
Saturday, June 6, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Jiatao Gu will present STARFlow-V: End-to-End Video Generative Modeling with Normalizing Flows.
Saturday, June 6, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Rick Chang will present Velox: Learning Representations of 4D Geometry and Appearance.
Di Feng will present SO-Bench: A Structural Output Evaluation of Multimodal LLMs.
AuthorsSanjoy Chowdhury†, Karren D. Yang**, Xudong Liu, Fartash Faghri, Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu, Oncel Tuzel, Dinesh Manocha†**, Chun-Liang Li**, Raviteja Vemulapalli
AuthorsJiasen Lu, Liangchen Song, Mingze Xu, Byeongjoo Ahn, Yanjun Wang, Chen Chen, Afshin Dehghan, Yinfei Yang
AuthorsColin Lea, Vasileios Baltatzis, Connor Gillis, Raja Kushalnagar†**, Lorna Quandt†**, Leah Findlater
AuthorsLucas Monteiro Paes‡, Nivedha Sivakumar‡, Oliver Wang†‡**, Masha Fedzechkina, Barry-John Theobald, Luca Zappella, Nicholas Apostoloff
AuthorsLe Zhang†**, Jihan Yang‡, Soundarya Krishnan, Jimit Majmudar, Xiou Ge, Prasoon Puri, Prathamesh Saraf, Shruti Bhargava, Dhivya Piraviperumal, Yinan Ling, Cindy Pan, Hong Yu, Aishwarya Agrawal†, Bo-Hsiang Tseng
AuthorsNick Stracke†‡, Kolja Bauer†‡, Stefan Andreas Baumann†‡, Miguel Ángel Bautista, Josh Susskind, Björn Ommer†‡
AuthorsYusu Qian, Eli Bocek-Rivele, Liangchen Song, Jialing Tong, Yinfei Yang, Jiasen Lu, Wenze Hu, Zhe Gan
AuthorsDi Feng, Kaixin Ma, Feng Nan, Haofeng Chen, Bohan Zhai, David Griffiths, Mingfei Gao, Zhe Gan, Eshan Verma, Yinfei Yang, Zhifeng Chen, Afshin Dehghan
AuthorsJiatao Gu†, Ying Shen‡**, Tianrong Chen, Laurent Dinh, Yuyang Wang, Miguel Ángel Bautista, David Berthelot, Josh Susskind, Shuangfei Zhai
AuthorsChenhao Zheng†‡, Jieyu Zhang†‡, Jianing Zhang†, Weikai Huang†‡, Ashutosh Kumar§, Quan Kong§, Oncel Tuzel, Chun-Liang Li, Ranjay Krishna†‡
AuthorsRui Tian†, Mingfei Gao§‡, Haiming Gang, Jiasen Lu, Zhe Gan, Yinfei Yang, Zuxuan Wu†§, Afshin Dehghan
AuthorsAnagh Malik†, Dorian Chan, Xiaoming Zhao, David B. Lindell†, Oncel Tuzel, Jen-Hao Rick Chang
AuthorsPavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu*, Cem Koc*, Fartash Faghri*, Chun-Liang Li, Bo Feng, Zhengfeng Lai, Meng Cao, Oncel Tuzel, Hadi Pouransari*
AuthorsKedar Tatwawadi, Parisa Rahimzadeh, Zhanghao Sun, Zhiqi Chen, Ziyun Yang, Sanjay Nair, Divija Hasteer, Oren Rippel
Alex Colburn and Qi Shan are recognized as Outstanding Area Chairs.
Byeongjoo Ahn, Chen Chen, Fartash Faghri, Oncel Tuzel, and Xiaoming Zhao are Area Chairs.
Roman Bachmann is a Workshop Co-Organizer for “Workshop On Any-to-Any Multimodal Learning 2026”.
Jeffrey Bigham is a Workshop Co-Organizer for “VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop 2026”.
Yingxue Zhou is a Workshop Co-Organizer for “Workshop on Deployment of Foundation Models for Embodied AI 2026”.
Sanjoy Chowdhury, Barry-John Theobald, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, and Raviteja Vemulapalli are recognized as Outstanding Reviewers.
Vassilis Baltatzis, Rick Chang, Dian Chen, Honor Chen, Di Feng, Peter (Zhe) Fu, Haiming Gang, Mingfei Gao, Kriti Goyal, Amin Karimi Monsefi, Mridul Khurana, Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu, Colin Lea, Xianhang Li, Henry Liu, Xudong Liu, Yongxi Lu, Paul Rötzer, Prateek Singhal, Vasu Singla and Huangjie Zheng are Reviewers.
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