CVPR 2026 • 1st SOS Workshop • Full-day Workshop • June 2026 • Denver, Colorado, USA
Sense of Space: Multi-Sensory Modeling for Embodied Intelligence
in conjunction with CVPR 2026
with the first workshop focusing on emergent special sensory modalities, and hand-object dexterity manipulation.
Announcement
- January 27: Call for Papers is posted!
- January 27: Thanks to our sponsors for supporting travel grants and monetary awards for the Best Paper Awards.
Workshop overview
Embodied intelligence in humans and robots relies on the integration of multiple sensory modalities — vision, touch, sound, proprioception, bio-signals, and beyond — into coherent spatial understanding and actionable policies. While recent advances in AI have significantly improved language and visual perception, progress in real-world embodied intelligence remains fundamentally constrained by our ability to model, align, and learn from multi-sensory physical interactions.
Sense of Space is a full-day CVPR 2026 workshop that brings together researchers working across sensing hardware, data acquisition, representation learning, and embodied applications. To provide focus within this broad and critical space, the 2026 edition centers on emergent special sensory modalities, and hand-object dexterity manipulation.
The workshop emphasizes challenges including novel sensing modalities, data-driven sensor design, large scale synchronized multi-sensory data collection, cross-modal spatial–temporal alignment, robustness to missing or noisy modalities, and generalizable representations for real-world manipulation in robotics & XR.
Invited Speakers
Speakers spanning sensor design, systems, algorithms, and applications.
Schedule
| Time | Session | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Session: Sensing Hardware, System, and Datasets | ||
| 08:30–08:40 | Welcome | |
| 08:40–09:15 | Keynote 1 | Topic: TBD |
| 09:15–09:50 | Keynote 2 | Topic: TBD |
| 09:50–10:15 | Oral spotlights (5×5 min) | |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30–11:05 | Keynote 3 | Topic: TBD |
| 11:05–11:40 | Keynote 4 | Topic: TBD |
| 11:40–13:00 | Lunch + posters | |
| Afternoon Session: Algorithm and Application | ||
| 13:00–13:05 | Welcome back | |
| 13:05–13:40 | Keynote 5 | Topic: TBD |
| 13:40–14:15 | Keynote 6 | Topic: TBD |
| 14:15–14:40 | Oral spotlights (5×5 min) | |
| 14:40–14:55 | Coffee break | |
| 14:55–15:30 | Keynote 7 | Topic: TBD |
| 15:30–16:05 | Keynote 8 | Topic: TBD |
| 16:05–16:30 | Panel discussion | |
| 16:30–16:45 | Paper award ceremony | |
| 16:45–17:00 | Closing remarks | |
Organizing Committee
Rao Fu
Brown University
Li Guan
Meta Reality Labs
Kaichen Zhou
Harvard / MIT Media Lab
Kun He
Meta Reality Labs
Tomas Hodan
Meta Reality Labs
Ergys Ristani
Meta Reality Labs
Eric Yi
Tsinghua University
Jessica Yin
NVIDIA
Qi Ye
Zhejiang University
Yichen Li
MIT CSAIL
Yining Hong
Stanford University
Devin Murphy
University of Washington
Ray Song
MIT Media Lab
Xueyan Zou
Tsinghua University
Yunzhu Li
Columbia University
Hao-Shu Fang
University of Maryland
Ruoshi Liu
University of Maryland
Yiyue Luo
University of Washington
Vatsal Mehta
Meta Reality Labs
Mengyu Wang
Harvard University
Wojciech Matusik
MIT CSAIL
Sponsors
Sponsorship opportunities
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