Special Session 1: Visual Computing for Ecological Integrity: Algorithms and Applications
Computer vision has become an indispensable tool for understanding and protecting our natural environment, enabling large-scale monitoring, early warning, and informed decision-making across diverse ecological scenarios. This special session aims to highlight the latest advances in computer vision that address critical challenges in ecological integrity, environmental conservation, and sustainable development. We invite original contributions on novel visual computing algorithms, ecological monitoring applications, or their intersection — with a focus on data-driven and intelligent approaches to preserving ecological integrity. Submissions may present algorithms, datasets, or real-world applications where visual intelligence supports ecosystem protection, resource management, and environmental risk mitigation. Authors developing pure computer vision methods with potential ecological relevance are also encouraged to submit.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Remote Sensing and
Environmental Monitoring
2. Wildlife Detection, Tracking,
and Behavior Analysis
3. Visual Perception for Natural
Disaster Early Warning
4. Agricultural Vision and
Precision Farming
5. Multimodal Data Fusion for
Environmental Applications
6. Advances in Computer Vision
with Ecological Relevance
Important Dates
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2026
Notification date: August 5, 2026
Registration: August 10, 2026
Camera Ready: August 10, 2025
Conference Dates: September 18-20, 2026
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Organizers
Prof. Ying Liu
Center for Visual Computing in
Plateau Ecological Integrity
(PEACE), Qinghai Institute of
Technology, Xining, China
Center for Image and Information
Processing(CIIP)，Xi'an
University of Posts and
Telecommunications, Xi'an, China
Prof. Zhijie Xu
Center for Cognitive
Intelligence and Affective
Computing, Xi’an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University,
Suzhou, China
Bio of the organizers:
Dr. Ying Liu is currently a full professor in the School of Computer and Information Science, Qinghai Institute of Technology, Xining, China. She serves as the director of Center for Visual Computing in Plateau Ecological Integrity (PEACE) in Qinghai Institute of Technology, and the director of Center for Image and Information Processing (CIIP) in Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications. She received the B.E. degree from Xidian University, China; the M.Eng degree from National University of Singapore; and the Ph.D degree from Monash University, Australia. Prior to returning to China, she was a Researcher at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Lecturer at Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE, as well as member of ACM and CCF, China. She has been involved in the organization of a list of international conferences/workshops, grand challenges in recent years. Her research interests include image understanding, and multi-modal information fusion. She received the Wiley China Excellent Author Award in 2025, and the Best Paper Award from Elsevier Pattern Recognition in 2011.
Dr. Zhijie Xu has been serving
as the Head of the Department of
Computing and Professor at Xi’an
Jiaotong-Liverpool University
since September 2024. He
previously held the position of
Tenured Professor at the
University of Huddersfield’s
School of Computing and
Engineering, where he was also
the Director of the Centre for
Visual and Immersive Computing
and the Director of the Graduate
School. Since beginning his
teaching career in 1999, he has
supervised 18 PhD students and
completed more than twenty
academic and engineering
projects. Dr. Xu’s primary
research interests include
computer graphics and imaging,
visual systems, digital twins,
edge computing, and information
visualization technologies.
Since 1996, he has published
over 200 papers, authored 5
books, and held 11 patents. Dr.
Xu has served as the Chairman of
the Chinese Automation and
Computing Society in the UK and
is an editorial board member and
invited reviewer for numerous
academic journals. He is also a
senior member of several
prestigious academic
organizations, such as IEEE,
IET, BCS, and HEA.