NVIDIA at CVPR 2026

June 3–7 | Denver, Colorado

Advancing the frontiers of computer vision, generative AI, robotics, and physical intelligence.

59

Accepted Papers

39

Workshops

12

Research Areas

42

Open Code Releases


On-Site Events

Connect with NVIDIA researchers and engineers in Denver.

NVIDIA Researcher Celebration

Jun 5 · 6–10 PM · Invite Only

Join NVIDIA researchers for an evening of conversation, demos, and community. Open to conference attendees with RSVP.

NVIDIA Booth—Live Demos

Jun 3–7  ·  Colorado Conv. Ctr.

Experience hands-on demos of our latest research in physical AI, generative vision, autonomous driving, and robotics.

Launching Legends

Jun 6  ·  12–2 PM  ·  Le Meridien Denver

An exclusive evening for AI entrepreneurs and startup founders. Pitch, connect, and celebrate the next wave of AI-powered companies.

Alpamayo Summit

Jun 3  · 4- 8 PM ·   Le Meridien Denver

A curated gathering of research leaders and industry pioneers exploring the future of AI, computing, and scientific discovery.


Schedule at a Glance

Explore NVIDIA Research talks, demos, papers, and events happening throughout CVPR 2026

9:15 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

The CVPR 2026 Workshop on Autonomous Driving will spotlight advances across autonomy, from perception and prediction to planning and commercialization, with Sanja Fidler presenting a keynote alongside benchmark challenges and accepted paper talks.


1–6 p.m. MT

The E2E3D workshop will explore scalable end-to-end 3D learning for robotics, XR, and scientific imaging, with Marco Pavone presenting a keynote on next-generation spatial intelligence systems.


9:15 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

The WDFM-EAI workshop will explore efficient, scalable, and safe deployment of foundation models for embodied AI across autonomous driving, robotics, and general-purpose agents, with Jan Kautz presenting a keynote on multimodal embodied intelligence systems.

4–8 p.m. MT

The Alpamayo Summit will explore how end-to-end reasoning models, open datasets, simulation, and safety frameworks are accelerating scalable, trustworthy Level 4 autonomy and shaping what the autonomous driving ecosystem builds next.


9:15 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

This workshop will explore how virtual humans and robots can learn from one another to advance embodied agents, with Umar Iqbal presenting a keynote on human digital twins, robot skill learning, and cross-disciplinary challenges such as retargeting, contact modeling, and foundation models.


1–6 p.m. MT

This workshop will explore graphics-in-the-loop, physically grounded 4D reconstruction for physical AI digital twins, with Francis Williams presenting a keynote on bridging graphics, vision, and robotics for real-to-sim-to-real physical AI.

10 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

Expo Demos and Theater Talks

NVIDIA Booth 211 opens with short technical demos and theater talks across NVIDIA Cosmos, robotics, visual inspection, autonomous driving, and partner-led AI workflows.


1–2:15 p.m. MT

Oral 2B: PPISP: Physically-Plausible Compensation of Photometric Variations in Radiance Fields

PPISP explores physically plausible ways to compensate for photometric variation in radiance fields, improving how dynamic lighting and appearance changes are handled in 3D reconstruction.


6–10 p.m. MT

NVIDIA’s Researcher Celebration brings CVPR researchers together for an evening of food, drinks, networking, and community building with fellow AI innovators.

10 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

Expo Demos and Theater Talks

Saturday’s booth theater focuses on NVIDIA Alpamayo, worldbuilding, AI models, and robotics demos, with technical sessions from NVIDIA researchers and ecosystem partners.


12–1:30 p.m. MT

Launching Legends connects researcher-founders with VCs, NVIDIA Inception, mentors, and cloud partner leaders to help turn breakthrough research ideas into startup pathways.


2–3:15 p.m. MT

Oral 4B: NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents

NitroGen introduces an open foundation model for generalist gaming agents, trained across large-scale gameplay data to transfer skills across diverse game environments.

10 a.m.–6 p.m. MT

Expo Demos and Theater Talks

The final expo day features a shorter demo and theater program focused on CWE and autonomous-driving partners before the show floor closes.


3:30 p.m.–05:30p.m. MT

Poster Session 6: Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Driving

This poster presents a latent reasoning approach for autonomous driving, using world-model and action tokens to improve end-to-end planning and closed-loop performance.


Research Papers and Workshops

Browse 59 accepted papers, invited talks, tutorials, and workshops by research area or type.


Code, Models, Demos

Start building with open research from CVPR 2026—download code, pretrained weights, and datasets.

Physical AI

NitroGen: Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming Agents

Open foundation model for generalist gaming agents with behavior cloning. Includes model weights, training code, and evaluation benchmarks.

Open source

Foundation

Behavior cloning

Physical AI

SAGE: Scalable Agentic 3D Scene Generation

Scalable pipeline for generating diverse 3D scenes for embodied AI training. Code, pretrained models, and generated scene datasets available.

3d generation

Embodied AI

Synthetic data

Robotics

Fast-FoundationStereo: Real-Time Zero-Shot Stereo

Zero-shot stereo depth estimation that runs in real time. Pretrained checkpoints and inference code for robotics and AV applications.

Stereo

Real-time

Robotics

Generative AI

DuetGen: Interleaved Multimodal Generation

Unified model for interleaved text, image, and video generation. Weights, training recipe, and demo notebooks released.

Multimodal

Image gen

Video gen


Careers

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Publications

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