Computer vision and graphics + mountains = HiVisComp. For the eleventh time this year

Lectures by leading experts, networking, and sports – this is the mix of the High Visual Computing conference program, also known as HiVisComp. This mix has made the event popular among the community and specialized companies. The eleventh edition of HiVisComp took place from January 28 to 31, 2026, traditionally in a mountain setting, this time in Stará Lesná in the High Tatras. The event can be described most succinctly as an informal, inspirational meeting of experts in computer graphics, image processing, and computer vision. However, this is a gross oversimplification.

Over the years, the HiVisComp conference, co-founded by Martin Čadík, has built a very solid reputation in the field. This is also due to the fact that it has the character of a community meeting without official outputs such as proceedings. This means that new key findings can be presented at the conference, which will appear in the near future at some of the largest industry events such as ICCV and ECCV. The selection of presented contributions is demanding and rigorous. Over the years, the organizers have received over 1,000 abstracts, with 33 invited speakers, all big names in the field, giving presentations. This year, they were joined by John Collomosse (University of Surrey) with an interesting topic on the possibility of detecting and combating disinformation through the use of embedded trust signals, Martin Saska (FELT ČVUT) on the challenges of computer vision in autonomous drones, or rather their swarms, and Dániel Baráth (ETH Zürich) presenting the issue of multimodal understanding of 3D scenes in computer processing.

Was this year's conference special in any way? When Martin Čadík thinks about this question, the first thing that comes to mind is the above-standard lecture hall, or rather the newly renovated lecture hall of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. "The weather was worse than in 2015, when HiVisComp was held in the High Tatras for the first time. It was good for the ski slopes, and fortunately, no one was injured; in fact, there has only been one accident in the eleven years. And I was pleased with the participation of researchers from Palacký University." A lot of stress, a lot of work, but it makes sense – that's how Čadík describes his relationship with HiVisComp. Read more about his relationship with the event and this year's proceedings here.