Workshop Paper
Manuscripts formatted according to ECCV 2026 author guidelines, intended for publication in the ECCV 2026 workshop proceedings. Accepted papers may report novel theories, methods, or applications in medical video understanding.
Computer Vision/CORE Unranked
MedVidU2026 2026
First Workshop On Medical Video Understanding (MedVidU)
MedVidU @ ECCV 2026 is a workshop focused on advancing video understanding for surgical and clinical procedures, bringing together researchers in computer vision and healthcare. It addresses challenges in interpreting medical video data through tasks like surgical phase recognition, tool tracking, and dense captioning, supported by the MedVidBench dataset across four domains: laparoscopic, open, robotic surgery, and nursing.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
July 28, 2026
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Workshop timeline
Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
July 28, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Challenge Report
Mandatory submission for MedVidU Challenge participants, submitted via OpenReview, detailing methods used in the challenge on the MedVidBench dataset.
Research areas in scope
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Topics of Interest
Temporal action grounding in medical videoDense video captioning for medical proceduresSurgical tool detection and trackingMedical video foundation models and multimodal large language modelsSurgical phase and action recognitionMedical scene understanding from videos and 3D/4D reconstructionPrivacy-preserving analysis of surgical recordingsExplainability and trustworthiness in AI for medical videosEfficient video representation learning for long medical procedures
Policies worth checking twice
- Papers must be formatted according to ECCV 2026 author guidelines.
- Accepted papers will be published in the ECCV 2026 workshop proceedings.
- MedVidU Challenge participants are required to submit a paper via OpenReview.
- You can submit a paper without participating in the MedVidU Challenge.
- Challenge submissions require: Model Name, Team Name, Authors, Institution, Email ID, and Remark: 'ECCV challenge'.
- All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026