The conference was first held in 1983 in Washington, DC, organized by Takeo Kanade and Dana H.
[1] The conference considers a wide range of topics related to computer vision and pattern recognition—basically any topic that is extracting structures or answers from images or video or applying mathematical methods to data to extract or recognize patterns.
Common topics include object recognition, image segmentation, motion estimation, 3D reconstruction, and deep learning.
[9] The Longuet-Higgins Prize recognizes papers from ten years ago that have made a significant impact on computer vision research.
[10][11] Candidates are nominated by the computer vision community, with winners selected by a committee of senior researchers in the field.