cvpr-paper

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cvpr-paper

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Use this skill to help write, structure, polish, format, or review a paper for CVPR (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, any year), or whenever the user mentions 'CVPR', a CVF computer vision submission, the cvpr two-column style, supplementary material for vision papers, the Findings Track, or the CVPR double-blind/rebuttal process. Helps with ideation and narrative, section structure, sentence-level polishing, CVPR LaTeX formatting, figures and tables (including teaser design and leaving sized placeholders for figures), citation verification, rebuttal preparation, and a submission checklist. Double-blind venue. Verify exact dates, page limits, and policies against that year's official CVPR Call for Papers.

CVPR Paper Writing

Help the user take a computer-vision paper from idea to a polished, correctly formatted, double-blind CVPR submission, and through the rebuttal phase. You can brainstorm the narrative, structure sections, polish prose, build LaTeX/figures/tables (or leave sized placeholders, including the teaser), verify citations, and run a reviewer self-check.

How to use this skill

Load the matching reference file on demand (not all at once):

User wants	Do this	Reference
Find the story / contribution / outline	nail the one-sentence contribution, then outline	references/ideation-and-structure.md
Draft or restructure a section	use the section blueprint	references/ideation-and-structure.md
Polish / tighten / "does this flow"	apply clarity principles + claim-evidence map	references/writing-and-polishing.md
Figures, teaser, tables, or placeholders	design or reserve space; generate plots	references/figures-and-tables.md, assets/
Generate a flowchart / pipeline / experiment plot	run the helper scripts	references/generating-diagrams.md, assets/make_flowchart.py, assets/make_experiment_figures.py
Add citations	verify before citing; never hallucinate	references/citations.md
Set up LaTeX / fix formatting / convert venue	template workflow + pitfalls	references/latex-and-submission.md
Final pass before submitting	run the checklist below + 5-dimension self-review	this file + references/writing-and-polishing.md

Be proactive: if the contribution and results are clear, deliver a full draft and flag open choices, rather than asking permission section by section.

At a glance

• Conference: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (annual).
• Submission system: OpenReview / CVPR site (per cycle).
• Review model: double-blind — anonymize the submission, including obvious self-citations.
• Supplementary material is allowed (its own, slightly later deadline) but the main claims must be understandable without it.
• Recent cycles added a Findings Track for technically sound but more incremental work; check whether it runs in the target year.

Dates change every year — check the current CFP

Do not rely on memorized dates. For the target cycle, open https://cvpr.thecvf.com and read off the paper deadline, the separate supplementary deadline (usually about a week later), the rebuttal window, notification, camera-ready, and conference dates/location. Rough rhythm (planning only): paper deadline around mid-November of the prior year; conference the following June.

Format (CVPR-specific)

• Template: official CVPR/CVF style (cvpr.sty), two columns, 10pt, US Letter.
• Length: 8 pages of content excluding references; references are unlimited and do not count. Confirm the exact rule in the CFP.

Structure notes specific to CVPR

Follow the general blueprint in references/ideation-and-structure.md, with vision emphasis:

• A strong teaser (Figure 1) is critical — design it early or reserve it with a placeholder (references/figures-and-tables.md, assets/figure-placeholders.tex).
• Compare against current SOTA on the expected benchmarks for the subfield; missing standard baselines triggers rejection.
• Ablations must isolate each component's contribution.
• Include clear qualitative result figures; keep claims supported by the main paper, since reviewers are not obligated to read the supplementary.

Rebuttal phase

• Plan time for the rebuttal; reviewers often request a specific extra experiment or table.
• Answer each point concisely and back it with a number or figure where possible.

Submission checklist (CVPR)

• Official cvpr.sty, two columns, unmodified.
• Main content within 8 pages (references excluded).
• Fully anonymized; self-citations written in the third person.
• Teaser and qualitative figures legible at print size and in grayscale.
• SOTA comparison tables and ablations complete with multiple runs.
• Supplementary uploaded by its separate deadline; self-contained.
• Citations all verified (no hallucinated entries).
• No TODO/figure placeholders left in the main paper.
• Submission metadata, subject areas, conflicts declared.
• 5-dimension self-review passed (references/writing-and-polishing.md).

When helping the user

• Ask the subfield (detection, segmentation, generation, 3D, video, multimodal) and target benchmarks.
• Offer to scaffold the CVPR LaTeX skeleton, design the teaser/figure plan (placeholders ok), build comparison tables, organize main vs supplementary, or draft rebuttal responses.