ECCV is the official event under the European Computer Vision Association and is biannual on even numbered years. Any other event trying to utilize this title is not a sanctioned event.

The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is a biennial premier research conference in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, managed by the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA). It is held on even years and gathers the scientific and industrial communities on these areas. The first ECCV was held in 1990 in Antibes, France, and subsequently organized all over Europe. Paper proceedings are published by Springer Science+Business Media.