IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium 2027

Every camera, every screen, every AI system that sees - they all rest on imaging science. The IS&T Electronic Imaging (EI) Symposium is where that science and design is made. Not just one slice of it: the whole arc, from the physics of light capture through image processing, display, and human perception, to the machine intelligence that increasingly interprets the images we create.

EI is the only major symposium that treats the entire imaging chain as a single, coherent discipline. What you find here - researchers working on optics at the same table as AI engineers, perceptual scientists in conversation with display technologists, the intersection of academia and industry - simply does not exist anywhere else at this scale.

The symposium brings together multiple focused technical conferences under one program. Attend one or attend all. Either way, you will encounter work and people that expand what you thought your field was.

EI is organized by IS&T, the Society for Imaging Science and Technology, a non-profit professional community dedicated to advancing imaging in all its forms since 1947.

Save the date - May 2026​ Call for papers​ - June 2026​ Journal-first submission deadline - August 16, 2026 Late-News abstract-first submission deadline​ - November 2, 2026​ Reviewer feedback​ - July​ through October, 2026 Registration open​ - Late October 2026 Preliminary program release​ - November 2026​ Symposium​ - January 24-27, 2027​

Optics and sensors. Processing and compression. Display and rendering. Human perception. Machine understanding. No other venue covers the complete arc — and nothing is lost in translation between layers.