3rd MEIS Workshop @CVPR2026
Multi-Agent Embodied Intelligent Systems Meet Generative-AI Era:
Opportunities, Challenges and Futures
Wed June 3, 2026
Denver CO, USA
Call for PapersChallengesScheduleSpeakersOrganizersSponsors

This workshop focuses on cooperative intelligence within multi-agent embodied intelligent systems. Artificial intelligence has propelled the development of embodied AI, particularly in autonomous vehicles, robotics, and drones. However, achieving full autonomy in complex and dynamic environments remains a formidable challenge for individual agents. Cooperative intelligence offers a transformative approach that allows agents to collaborate and interact with the infrastructure to handle a wide range of tasks more efficiently. In autonomous driving, the availability of datasets and breakthrough algorithms has spurred research interest in cooperative autonomous driving. Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) interactions, including Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I), empower autonomous vehicles to extend perception, increase safety, and overcome the limitations of single-vehicle autonomy, laying the groundwork for large-scale adoption. In robotics, the evolution of multi-agent systems is revolutionizing the exploration of unknown environments. These advances allow robots to efficiently assist humans in challenging, open-world tasks. In drones, aerial robot swarms collaborate to perform complex tasks such as drone shows, 3D printing, and navigating cluttered environments. Furthermore, ground-air collaboration between drones and mobile robots shows immense potential in areas such as large-scale mapping and joint search and rescue. Despite progress, challenges in coordinating multi-agent systems remain underexplored. Key hurdles include deciding what information to transmit, how to transmit, and how to fuse data across various levels like perception, prediction, and planning. Moreover, obtaining high-quality real-world datasets is difficult. Recent advances in foundational and generative models offer promising ways to overcome these obstacles. This workshop will explore opportunities, challenges, and future directions for multi-agent embodied intelligent systems in the Agentic-AI era.

Cooperative Intelligence in Multi-Agent Systems
Call for Papers

We invite submissions including but not limited to the following topics:

① Foundation Models and Architectures

  • Large Language Model-assisted Cooperative System
  • Foundation Models for Cooperative System
  • Reasoning and Memory in Agentic System
  • VLA for Robotics and Autonomous Driving (AD)

② Multi-Agent Systems & Collaboration

  • Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X): V2V, V2I, V2P, V2D
  • Multi-agent Robotic System and Swarm Robots
  • Swarm of Drones and Aerial Robots
  • Cooperative Motion Prediction and Decision-Making
  • Communication-Efficient Cooperative Perception
  • End-to-End Cooperative Policy Learning

③ Simulation and Evaluation

  • Simulation Platform for Cooperative System
  • Datasets and Benchmarks for Cooperative Learning
  • Simulation and Benchmarks for Agentic Systems
  • Sim-to-Real Transfer

④ Human-Agent Interaction

  • Explainability and Interpretability for VLA
  • Natural Language Interaction for Embodied Agents
  • Human-Agent Collaboration
  • Safety, Fairness, and Ethical Alignment

Important Dates

  • Paper submission open: February 1, 2026
  • Paper submission deadline: March 10, 2026
  • Notification of acceptance: March 20, 2026
  • Camera ready: March 31, 2026

Submission Guidance

  • Submission Portal: Openreview (Upcoming)
  • Submission format: Submissions must follow the CVPR 2026 template (here) and will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind manner. Submission must be no more than 8 pages (excluding references). By default, accepted papers will be included in the CVPR workshop proceedings. Accepted papers will be presented in the form of posters, with several papers being selected for spotlight sessions.

Area Chairs

Upcoming
Challenges
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Competition: Air-Ground Multi-agent Collaborative Perception

One unified challenge advancing multi-agent V2X cooperation for autonomous driving

Timeline

  • Competition announcement: no late by March 2025
  • Submission server open: April 10, 2025
  • Submission deadline: two weeks before workshop date
  • Decision to authors: one week before workshop date

Organizer Committee

  • Xiangbo Gao (Texas A&M University)
  • Yuheng Wu (KAIST)
  • Zhengzhong Tu (Texas A&M University)

Description

This challenge focuses on air–ground collaborative perception and decision-making for autonomous driving, leveraging multi-agent V2X cooperation among vehicles, roadside units (RSUs), and aerial drones. Participants will develop algorithms that enable heterogeneous agents to achieve robust perception, fusion, and planning under diverse environments and drone navigation strategies (hover, patrol, escort). The challenge aims to advance Vehicle-to-Drone (V2D) and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) collaboration toward scalable, communication-efficient, and safety-aware autonomous driving.

Datasets and Evaluation

Official training and validation datasets will be provided to ensure fair comparisons. Participants will submit their implemented model agents to a cloud-based evaluation platform via EvalAI. Submissions, in the form of Docker containers, will be evaluated on the challenge’s hidden test set under both open-loop and closed-loop settings.

Open-loop evaluation: We will use the AirV2X-Perception dataset, a large-scale co-simulation dataset integrating CARLA and AirSim for unified air–ground V2X research. It includes over 6.7 hours of synchronized multi-modal data (LiDAR + cameras) from up to 15 connected agents per scene (5 vehicles, 5 RSUs, 5 drones) across diverse weather, lighting, and environment conditions. The dataset supports 3D object detection, BEV semantic segmentation, and multi-object tracking tasks. Codebase: https://github.com/taco-group/AirV2X-Perception.
Closed-loop evaluation: We will employ the AirV2X-Sim platform, an interactive simulator designed for full-stack air–ground cooperative driving. AirV2X-Sim enables dynamic UAV–vehicle coordination, bandwidth-aware communication, and safety-critical evaluation. The platform will be open-sourced in Dec. 2025, and the enhanced AirV2X-Perception V2 dataset—featuring realistic communication delays, dynamic UAV trajectories, and expanded scenario diversity—will be released in Feb. 2026.
Schedule
Date: UpcomingLocation: UpcomingLive: UpcomingTimezone: GMT-6
TimeActivityHost
9:00 - 9:10
Introduction and Opening Remarks
TBD
9:10 - 9:40
Invited Talk 1: Autonomous Driving and V2X
TBD
9:40 - 10:10
Invited Talk 2: Autonomous Driving and V2X
TBD
10:10 - 10:40
Invited Talk 3: Autonomous Driving and V2X
TBD
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
-
11:00 - 11:30
Invited Talk 4: Agentic Autonomous Driving
TBD
11:30 - 12:00
Oral Paper Presentations: 3 orals (each 10 min)
TBD
Break
2:00 - 2:30
Invited Talk 5: Robotics and Cooperation
TBD
2:30 - 3:00
Invited Talk 6: Robotics and Cooperation
TBD
3:00 - 3:30
Invited Talk 7: Drones and Cooperation
TBD
3:30 - 4:00
Coffee Break & Poster Presentation
-
4:00 - 4:30
Invited Talk 8: Drones and Cooperation
TBD
4:30 - 5:00
Invited Talk 9: Other Cooperation Applications
TBD
5:00 - 5:20
Competition: Sharing
TBD
5:20 - 5:50
Oral Paper Presentations: 3 orals (each 10min)
TBD
5:50 - 6:00
Closed Remarks
TBD
Speakers
Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Siheng Chen
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Henry Liu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Bernadette Bucher
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Jiachen Li
University of California, Riverside
Angela Dai
Technical University of Munich
Bolei Zhou
University of California, Los Angeles
Marco Pavone
Stanford University
Enze Xie
NVIDIA
Kun Zhan
Li Auto
Manabu Tsukada
The University of Tokyo

Note: We are currently extending invitations to other eminent research scholars, so please stay tuned for updates.

Organizers
Xiangbo Gao
Texas A&M University
Haibao Yu
University of Hong Kong
Walter Zimmer
Technical University of Munich
Ross Greer
Technical University of Munich
Bernadette Bucher
University of Michigan
Zilin Huang
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Yue Hu
University of Michigan
Can Cui
Purdue University
Yuping Wang
University of Michigan
Zhiwen Fan
Texas A&M University
Jiachen Li
University of California, Riverside
Ziran Wang
Purdue University
Yang Zhou
Texas A&M University
Hao Yang
Johns Hopkins University
Zhengzhong Tu
Texas A&M University

Contact: If you have any questions, please contact us at: xiangbog@tamu.edu or yuhengwu@kaist.ac.kr.

Program Committee
Upcoming
Sponsors
Contact: xiangbog@tamu.edu or yuhengwu@kaist.ac.kr.