VizWiz grand challenge workshop at CVPR 2022

Abstract

Our goal is to educate a broader population about the technological needs and interests of people with vision impairments while encouraging artificial intelligence (AI) researchers to develop new algorithms that can help eliminate accessibility barriers. Towards this goal, we organised the VizWiz Grand Challenge Workshop at the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR 2022). This workshop's scope included charting and celebrating progress on accessibility-related AI challenges as well as engaging invited speakers and stakeholders to discuss challenges and opportunities related to designing next-generation assistive technologies. A total of 72 teams participated in our three AI challenges and the winners received awards sponsored by Microsoft. The facilitated discussions highlighted insights from ten invited speakers who provided a range of expertise spanning the cutting edge of computer vision research, development of industry products and services for assisting people with vision impairments, and perspectives of people with vision impairments who use visual assistance technologies. Finally, nine teams who submitted extended abstracts about their research related to the AI challenges and assistive technologies for people with visual impairments gave spotlight and poster presentations about their research. Links to the content shared at the event can be found at VizWiz Workshop