2nd Workshop on Smart Cameras for Physical AI

Introduction

Welcome to the 2nd Workshop on Smart Cameras for Physical AI at BMVC 2026! After a successful first edition at BMVC 2025 with 100+ in-person attendees, we return with a sharper focus: cameras as the foundation of reliable robot perception.

Robots, drones, and autonomous systems live or die by the quality of their visual input. A weak ISP, a noisy RAW frame, a damaged lens, or an uncontrolled enhancement model can break recognition, mapping, planning, and action. This workshop brings together computational photography, low-level vision, robotics, and edge AI to discuss how to design camera pipelines that are robust, controllable, and useful for downstream intelligence — including VLMs and VLAs.

Lancaster Town Hall, workshop venue — Venue: Lancaster Town Hall

Previous edition: BMVC 2025 — Smart Cameras for Smarter Autonomous Vehicles and Robots.

Speakers

Tentative Schedule

Full-day workshop outline. Times are tentative and will be confirmed closer to BMVC 2026.

09:00 – 09:15	Welcome & opening
09:15 – 09:45	Paper spotlights
09:45 – 10:30	Marcos V. Conde — Cameras for Robots
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 – 11:45	Ziteng Cui (University of Tokyo)
11:45 – 12:30	Andrew Wang (Blur Labs)
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15	Hirokatsu Kataoka (AIST / Oxford VGG)
14:15 – 15:00	Tom Bishop (Glass Imaging)
15:00 – 15:40	Coffee / posters & demos
15:40 – 16:15	Open discussion, challenges & closing