SENSE
Sensing via agEntic reasoNing SystEms
A half-day workshop on agentic AI for trustworthy, explainable sensing, from radar returns in remote sensing to diagnostic imaging in healthcare, co-located with WACV 2027.
Overview
Why agentic sensing, and why now
Every sensing system faces the same quiet challenge: turning an incomplete, noisy signal, a radar return scattered off a hidden target, a faint shadow on an X-ray, into a confident, trustworthy decision. Computer vision has powered remarkable progress on this problem, from automatic target recognition in remote sensing to diagnostic reasoning in healthcare imaging. But as these systems move from benchmarks into safety-critical deployment, accuracy alone is no longer enough.
Agentic AI systems that break sensing tasks into interpretable steps, call on domain-specific tools and physical or clinical knowledge, and reason iteratively, rather than guessing once, offer a way to close that gap. SENSE brings together researchers working on agentic reasoning across the full breadth of sensing applications, from SAR imagery to diagnostic scans, to ask what it takes to build agentic sensing systems worthy of the trust we place in them.
Call for Papers
Topics of interest
We invite original research contributions in (but not limited to) the following areas:
Multi-agent systems and orchestration for sensing tasks
Robustness, interpretability, and trust in autonomous sensing agents
Multimodal reasoning combining sensor data with clinical records, metadata, or other auxiliary information
Tools, benchmarks, datasets, and evaluation protocols for agentic sensing systems
Tool-augmented and physically-grounded reasoning in remote sensing (e.g., SAR/ATR)
Agentic vision-language models for healthcare and diagnostic imaging
Submission details
- Length: 7 pages including references, formatted to the WACV 2027 workshop template.
- Venue: Papers are submitted electronically via OpenReview. The submission link will be posted on this page closer to the deadline.
- Review: All submissions undergo peer review by the SENSE program committee, coordinated by the workshop chairs.
- Evaluation criteria: Technical novelty, methodological soundness, relevance to agentic reasoning in sensing applications (remote sensing or healthcare), and potential to foster cross-domain discussion.
- Publication: Accepted papers are published in the official WACV 2027 workshop proceedings and IEEE Xplore.
Key Deadlines
Important dates
All dates below apply to archival papers. Times are noted where specified by the organizers; all other times will be confirmed with the submission deadline.
The initial submission deadline will be posted here as soon as it is finalized. Check back or watch for an announcement.
Decisions communicated to authors of archival paper submissions.
Metadata for accepted archival papers must be submitted to IEEE.
Applies to all accepted archival papers. Papers arriving after this deadline may not appear in the WACV 2027 proceedings or IEEE Xplore.
Co-located with WACV 2027 at Disney Springs, Orlando / Buena Vista, FL. Exact day within the workshop window to be confirmed.
Program
Preliminary schedule
Half-day format. Times are local to the workshop venue and subject to change.
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome & Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 – 10:00 | Invited Talk 1: Remote Sensing |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | Invited Talk 2: Healthcare |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Paper Spotlight Talks (accepted papers, ~5–8 min each) |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Poster Session |
| 12:45 – 13:15 | Panel Discussion: Open Challenges in Agentic Sensing |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Closing Remarks & Best Paper Award |
Invited Speakers
Tentative invited speakers
- Ehsan AdeliStanford University
- Marzyeh GhassemiMIT
- Rama ChellappaJohns Hopkins University
- Begum DemirTU Berlin
- Fatemeh AfghahClemson University
- Hae-Won ParkKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Wenjia XuBeijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- Saurabh PrasadUniversity of Houston
Program Committee
Tentative program committee
Ravi Tandon
Amir M. Rahmani
Nassir Navab
Xiaomin Lin
Organizers
Workshop chairs
Venue
Co-located with WACV 2027
Disney Springs, Buena Vista, FL
SENSE is a half-day workshop held during the WACV 2027 workshop days. The main WACV 2027 conference runs January 4–8, 2027, with workshops on January 4–5.
Get in touch
Contact & keywords
Primary contact
bsl@nmsu.eduWorkshop keywords
Agentic AI · Computer Vision · Remote Sensing · Healthcare Sensing
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