VR Health Champions will organise and support the workshop “Multimodal Perception and Skill Training in Immersive Virtual Environments (M-PaSTIVE)”, held as part of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2026 in Tampere, Finland.
The workshop will take place on 17 September 2026 as an official satellite event within the ICIP 2026 programme and will focus on immersive virtual environments designed for professional skill training, healthcare, rehabilitation and education.
Europe’s VR/AR ecosystem, driven by start-ups and SMEs, is growing dynamically.
M-PaSTIVE brings together experts working in signal processing, computer vision, multimodal learning, immersive virtual environments, VR/AR/XR technologies, motion tracking and gaze estimation, AI-supported interactive systems, as well as healthcare and training applications.
The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion on the development of immersive and interactive environments that support skill acquisition, realistic simulation and adaptive training experiences.
Particular attention will be given to multimodal perception, real-time interaction and intelligent systems supporting professional education and healthcare applications.
The event is organised by researchers involved in the VR Health Champions initiative and partner institutions, including the University of Latvia and Lodz University of Technology.
Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following areas:
- novel VR/AR/XR training applications
- multimodal interaction methods
- immersive healthcare solutions
- AI-supported learning environments
- perception and behaviour analysis in virtual environments
- user studies and validation research
The European VR/AR market is projected to reach a value between €35-65 billion by 2025, contributing up to €40 billion in gross added value, according to Ecorys (2021).
