WASTEVISION: International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring

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Call for Papers

The increasing global concern regarding waste management, illegal dumping, and environmental pollution underscores the urgent need for intelligent and effective monitoring systems. Recent advances in computer vision, driven by the rapid progress of artificial intelligence, offer promising opportunities to tackle these challenges. Nevertheless, current scientific literature highlights several open research issues, such as the need for more robust detection methods adaptable to diverse environments, the scarcity of comprehensive datasets and benchmarks, and the development of real-time solutions deployable on systems with limited computational resources.

The International Workshop on Smart Waste Monitoring (WASTEVISION) aims to provide a dedicated forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry representatives to present and discuss innovative contributions in this emerging field. The workshop seeks to advance the state of the art in smart waste monitoring, illegal dumping detection, and environmental pollution surveillance, while promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange.

Research Topics

Computer Vision & Analysis
  • Image analysis for waste detection and classification
  • Video analysis for waste tracking and management
  • Computer vision methods for illegal waste disposal detection
  • Multimodal systems for dumping identification
Monitoring & Applications
  • Remote sensing and UAV-based waste monitoring
  • Video and image analytics for pollution tracking
  • Datasets and benchmarks for waste and pollution monitoring
  • Applications and case studies involving real-world deployments

Submission Guidelines

Submissions of regular papers exceeding five pages are invited. Manuscripts must adhere to the same formatting guidelines required by the main conference. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings together with those of the main conference. The Microsoft CMT service is used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service is provided for free by Microsoft, which bears all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.

Call for Contest

IWDD CONTEST 2026

FIRST EDITION

The WASTEVISION workshop welcomes scientific contributions describing the methods and results obtained during the Illegal Waste Dumping Detection (IWDD) Contest, an international competition aimed at developing advanced methods for real-time illegal waste dumping detection in videos captured by fixed CCTV cameras, executable on smart cameras or embedded systems.

Participants will have access to a novel dataset with over 400 annotated videos, each marked with the exact moment of illegal waste dumping. Submitted methods will be evaluated on a private test set, with ranking based on F-score, while also measuring average notification delay, frame processing rate, and memory usage.

The goal is to stimulate innovative solutions that are reliable in real application scenarios of varying difficulty, promoting algorithms suitable for practical deployment in smart city surveillance systems.

Important dates

PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE

December 10th, 2025

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CONTEST PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE

December 15th, 2025

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DECISION NOTIFICATION DEADLINE

December 23rd, 2025

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CAMERA-READY
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January 9th, 2026

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Organizers

ANTONIO GRECO

Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Applied Mathematics (DIEM)
University of Salerno, Italy

agreco@unisa.it

CARLO SANSONE

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI)
University of Naples - Federico II, Italy

carlo.sansone@unina.it

BRUNO VENTO

Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI)
University of Naples - Federico II, Italy

bruno.vento@unina.it