Call for Participation: ImageEval 2026 Shared Task at ArabicNLP 2026
We invite researchers and practitioners to participate in ImageEval 2026: Cultural Grounding in Arabic Multimodal Generation and Understanding, a shared task organized as part of ArabicNLP 2026, co-located with EMNLP 2026.
ImageEval 2026 focuses on Arabic language varieties and culturally specific visual content from the MENA region. The task suite evaluates visual question answering, image-grounded hallucination detection, and cultural accuracy evaluation for text-to-image generation, with dedicated tracks for participants to build, evaluate, and compare multimodal systems.
Tracks
- Task 1: Culturally Grounded Arabic Visual Question Answering and Hallucination Detection
- Task 2: Cultural Accuracy Evaluation for Text-to-Image Generation
Participants are invited to develop systems, submit predictions, and write system description papers for the ArabicNLP 2026 proceedings.
Important Dates
- May 22, 2026: Release of task website, training/dev data, and evaluation scripts
- July 20, 2026: Registration deadline and release of blind test data
- July 30, 2026: Final results announcement
- August 15, 2026: Shared task system paper submission due
- August 25, 2026: Notification of acceptance
- September 5, 2026: Camera-ready version due
- October 24–29, 2026: ArabicNLP main conference
Links
- Website: https://imageeval2026.github.io/
- Data and code: https://github.com/ImageEval2026/ImageEval2026-tasks
- Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1QKF4rXD_gbLJlDykLvB0DGMIogwhraeOtWRiQiotucK0zA/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=105545821070213772288
We encourage participation from the NLP, multimodal AI, computer vision, and Arabic language technology communities.