African Computer Vision
Summer School

19-29 July 2026, Google, Accra, Ghana

The African Computer Vision Summer School (ACVSS) unites
outstanding African students with leading computer vision experts.

The 3rd ACVSS will be at Google in Accra, Ghana, 19-29 July 2026.

📆 July 19-29, 2026

🌍 in Accra, Ghana at the Google AI Community Center

🎓 Applications are open until March 1st, 11:59pm (AOE)
👉 To apply, check Apply & Attend
Summer school is funded for African students. Open to international students.
Notification of decision: mid March.
🏫 The 10-day program will typically include:
10 lectures and 8 practical sessions, 8 keynotes, hackathon, poster session, etc.

The curriculum emphasizes the importance of ethical considerations, geometry and math, deep learning and AI, and on seeding knowledge for multiple generations of students by coaching participants in educational leadership.

Unsure of what ACVSS is about?
To get a taste, check our last editions: ACVSS 25 Rwanda and ACVSS 24 Kenya.

Want to support ACVSS ? Consider becoming a sponsor.

Speakers

We will announce first speakers in February. As always, ACVSS will gather top notch scientists from all over the world.
Check out our the entire list of speakers in 2025 and 2024 to get a taste of the flavor to come in 2026.

In 2025, our speaker list included: Daniel Cremers (TUM), Sara Beery (MIT), Anurag Arnab (Google DeepMind), Timnit Gebru (DAIR), Fahad Shabaz Khan (MBZUAI), Vicky Kalogeiton (Polytechnique), Ciira wa Maina (Dedan Kimathi Uni. of Technology), Vincent Sitzmann (MIT), Desmond Elliott (Uni. of Copenhagen), Martin R. Oswald (Uni. of Amsterdam), Hazel Doughty (Leiden Uni.), Milagros Miceli (DAIR), Beyza Ermiş (Cohere), Moise Busogi (CMU Africa), Bodo Rosenhahn (Leibniz Universität Hannover).