cvpr-submission

CVPR Submission

Run this audit in the two weeks before the CVPR paper deadline. All specifics below are

the CVPR 2026 cycle as read on 2026-07-08 (paper deadline November 13, 2025); the next

Program Chairs will rewrite details, so reopen the current Author Guidelines and Dates

pages at cvpr.thecvf.com before acting on any number here.

The three deadlines that catch people

CVPR staggers three hard cut-offs a week apart, and the first one is the one teams miss:

1. Abstract registration + OpenReview profiles (Nov 6, 2025 in the 2026 cycle).

Every listed author — including the advisor added "later" and the intern who wrote one

module — needed a complete, valid OpenReview profile by this date. An incomplete

profile on any coauthor is desk-reject exposure for the paper.

1. Full paper (Nov 13, 2025, 11:59pm AoE, announced as unmovable). The PDF, the

author list, subject areas, conflicts, and the Compute Reporting Form all land

here.

1. Supplementary material (Nov 20, 2025, AoE). One extra week — but only for the

supplement; nothing in the main PDF can change after the paper deadline.

Page discipline, CVPR flavor

The cap is 8 pages including figures and tables, with extra pages permitted only for

cited references. That "including figures" clause is what distinguishes CVPR budgeting

from text-limited venues: a half-page teaser figure, two qualitative grids, and three

result tables can consume four of your eight pages. Plan figures as page-budget line

items, not decorations, and treat any style-file edit, margin nudge, or font substitution

as a desk-reject trigger — over-length and mis-formatted papers are rejected without

review. Build from the official author kit (github.com/cvpr-org/author-kit), current

year's branch, unmodified.

The Compute Reporting Form

New in the 2026 cycle: every submission carried a CRF. Only Section 1 (hardware) and

Section 5 (verification) were mandatory — about five minutes of work — and a documented

opt-out path existed via the comments field for proprietary or unrecorded compute.

Fill the mandatory sections early; do not let a five-minute form become a deadline-night

blocker, and do not fabricate GPU-hour numbers to look either frugal or mighty.

Anonymity and the external-link ban

CVPR is double-blind with two venue-specific wrinkles. First, **arXiv posting is not an

anonymity violation** — you may have a preprint up, and reviewers are told not to hunt

for it. Second, **external links are banned when they expand content or subvert

review**: an anonymous-looking project page, a Google Drive of extra results, or a demo

URL can breach anonymity, the media embargo, or the length limit all at once. Everything

reviewers need must live in the PDF and the uploaded supplement.

# Mechanical sweep on the final build, ten minutes before upload
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com|drive\.google|project page|our (prior|previous) work' | head
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'     # identity in metadata
grep -rn 'vspace\|\\addtolength\|geometry' main.tex        # style-tampering tells
pdftotext paper.pdf - | awk 'END{print NR" lines extracted"}'   # sanity: text present, not raster

Dual submission and the media embargo

By submitting you attest that no substantially similar paper is under review at another

conference or workshop during the defined review period (Nov 13, 2025 – Feb 20, 2026

in the 2026 cycle). Two verified carve-outs: prior papers of four pages or fewer do

not trigger the rule, and GitHub documents are not publications. Separately, papers under

review are embargoed from proactive media discussion until acceptance — a violation can

remove the paper from the proceedings. A journalist writing about your arXiv preprint

without your involvement is not a violation; you pitching the story is.

Reviewer duty is part of submitting

Submitting authors are enrolled into the reviewer pool. This is not symbolic: papers

authored by a reviewer who blows review deadlines or files highly irresponsible reviews

can be desk-rejected wholesale at PC discretion. Before the deadline, decide which

coauthors will absorb December–January reviewing load and calendar it.

Desk-reject triage

| Finding | Severity | Recoverable? |

|---|---|---|

| Coauthor without a valid OpenReview profile at abstract deadline | Desk reject | Only before Nov 6 |

| Page 9 contains anything besides references | Rejected without review | Only before the paper deadline |

| Style file modified / margins compressed | Rejected without review | Fix and rebuild |

| Identity leak (metadata, acknowledgements, linked repo) | Desk reject | Sweep before upload |

| External link expanding content | Policy violation | Delete; move content into supplement |

| CRF missing | Incomplete submission | Complete Sections 1 and 5 |

| Same work under review elsewhere in the window | Administrative rejection | Withdraw one venue first |

| Assigned coauthor review never delivered (January) | All their papers at risk | Deliver the reviews |

OpenReview form fields worth drafting early

The PDF gets the rehearsals; the form causes the midnight surprises. Draft these a day

ahead: the abstract field (verbatim from the PDF — reviewers bid on it), subject areas

(chosen for reviewer routing, not maximal coverage), conflicts (every coauthor's

domain conflicts, checked against the institution list), and the author order (frozen —

post-deadline author changes are a chairs-level exception, not an edit).

Final 72 hours, in order

1. Freeze the 8-page body; late edits go to the supplement queue, not the PDF.
2. Rebuild from a clean checkout of the official kit and verify no local style patches

leaked in.

1. Run the mechanical sweep above; treat every hit as a blocker.
2. Complete the OpenReview form fields and CRF a full day early; the abstract field must

match the PDF verbatim because reviewers bid on it.

1. Upload, re-download, and read your own submission cold — including checking that

figures render at print zoom, since reviewers judge qualitative results visually.

Reverify each cycle

• All three deadlines and whether abstract registration exists in the current cycle.
• The page cap and whether references-only extra pages still apply.
• CRF existence, mandatory sections, and opt-out wording.
• Dual-submission window definition and the ≤4-page carve-out.
• Supplementary size/format caps (not fetchable for 2026 — 待核实).

Output format

[CVPR submission] ready / blocked / at-risk
[Profiles] all coauthors valid on OpenReview: yes/no
[Format] pages used (of 8 incl. figures/tables) · refs-only overflow ok
[CRF] mandatory sections complete: yes/no
[Anonymity/links] clean / violations: <list>
[Duty plan] reviewing coauthors named: yes/no
[Fix queue] <ordered blockers>