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BMVC Town Hall: Any one wishing to volunteer to get involved with organising BMVC or the BMVA please complete the form here:

BMVA/BMVC Volunteering

BMVC 2025: We are pleased to announce that BMVC will be held from 24th - 27th November 2025 in Sheffield. The timeline for the conference is now available.

BMVC 2025 Website

MIUA 2025: We are pleased to announce that MIUA will be held from 15th - 17th July 2025 in Leeds. The timeline for the conference is now available.

MIUA 2025 Website

Sullivan Thesis Prize Nominations: We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the Sullivan Thesis Prize again. Please see the Sullivan thesis prize page for further details.

Thesis Prize Nominations

Distinguished Fellowship Nominations: We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting nominations for the Distinguished Fellowship of the BMVA. Please see the Distinguished Fellowship page for further details.

Fellowship Nominations

IAPR Information: The BMVA is a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition that provides a number of opportunities open to BMVA members including research travel scholarships and a list of internships. Please see the IAPR page for further details.

Aims and Objectives

The BMVA provides a national forum for individuals and organisations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition in the United Kingdom. Its principal aims are to:

• promote knowledge of machine vision and pattern recognition
• encourage practical applications of the technology
• facilitate the rapid transfer of research results to industry
• represent the UK machine vision community, nationally and internationally

Activities

In pursuit of the above goals, the association’s primary activities are:

• The annual British Machine Vision Conference
• The annual conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis
• A series of one-day technical meetings
• An annual Summer School
• Award of travel bursaries
• Award of the Sullivan thesis prize
• Maintenance of a PhD thesis archive
• Publication of the BMVA News newsletter

If you are interested in joining the BMVA:    Join the BMVA!

We are also active on social media:

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• What is computer vision?
• Careers in vision
• Vision research groups in the UK
• UK companies active in vision research
• Finding out more

Areas of Interest

The association is actively interested in a number of application domains of computer vision research and technology including:

• Medicine and Medical Imaging
• Robotics
• Entertainment
• Quality Control
• Security and Surveillance
• Environmental and Remote Monitoring

Wider Associations

The BMVA is a member organisation of the International Association for Pattern Recognition

The BMVA is a member of the Campaign for Science and Engineering and works with the following organizations:

The BMVA is a silver sponsor of the Open Computer Vision Library (OpenCV):     

The British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition is a Company limited by guarantee, No.2543446, registered in England and Wales. Registered Office: Department of Computer Science, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK. The Association is a non-profit-making body and is registered as charity No.1002307.