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Writing and formatting guidance for CVPR (IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference) papers. Use when drafting, formatting, and submitting to CVPR 2026. Covers the cvpr.cls document class, two-column layout, double-blind anonymity (8-page limit excluding references), rebuttal preparation, figure/table placement rules, and camera-ready submission requirements. Also applicable to ICCV since they share the same cvpr.sty.

CVPR 2026 Conference Writing Skill

CCF-A | AI | Publisher: CVF (IEEE) Conference: https://cvpr2026.thecvf.com Template: ccf-latex-templates/CVPR/main.tex, CVPR/preamble.tex, CVPR/rebuttal.tex Shared with ICCV — same cvpr.sty class

Document Setup

Preamble Structure

\documentclass[10pt,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}

% === MODE SELECTION ===
\usepackage{cvpr}              % Camera-ready
\usepackage[review]{cvpr}      % Review version
% \usepackage[pagenumbers]{cvpr} % ArXiv version

% Additional packages in preamble:
\input{preamble}

% Hyperref (strongly recommended):
\definecolor{cvprblue}{rgb}{0.21,0.49,0.74}
\usepackage[pagebackref,breaklinks,colorlinks,allcolors=cvprblue]{hyperref}

% Paper ID and conference info:
\def\paperID{*****}   % Enter Paper ID
\def\confName{CVPR}
\def\confYear{2026}

Template Files

The CVPR template uses multiple files:

• main.tex — main document
• preamble.tex — additional packages
• main.bib — bibliography
• rebuttal.tex — rebuttal template
• sec/ folder — section files (optional)

Mode Options

Mode	Declaration	Features
Camera-Ready	\usepackage{cvpr}	Final formatting
Review	\usepackage[review]{cvpr}	Line numbers, anonymized
ArXiv	\usepackage[pagenumbers]{cvpr}	Page numbers shown

Page Limits

• Main content: 8 pages maximum
• Excluded: References, appendix, supplementary
• Papers exceeding limit may be rejected without review

Anonymity Requirements (Double-Blind)

1. No author names or affiliations in submission
2. Use placeholder author block:

\author{First Author\\
Institution1\\
Institution1 address\\
{\tt\small [e-mail]}
\and
Second Author\\
Institution2\\
{\tt\small [e-mail]}
}

3. Third-person self-citations
4. Anonymize URLs that identify authors
5. Paper ID on each page (for review)

Title and Author Formatting

\title{\LaTeX\ Author Guidelines for \confName~\confYear~Proceedings}

\author{First Author\\
Institution1\\
Institution1 address\\
{\tt\small [e-mail]}
% Additional authors with \and:
\and
Second Author\\
Institution2\\
First line of institution2 address\\
{\tt\small [e-mail]}
}

Abstract

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\input{sec/0_abstract}
% ... rest of sections

Recommended CVPR Paper Structure

\section{Introduction}
% Paragraph 1-2: Problem and motivation
% What is the task? Why is it important?
% What are the challenges?

% Paragraph 3: Gap in prior work
% What have others done? What are their limitations?
% Why is this problem hard?

% Paragraph 4: Our approach
% What is our key insight?
% What makes our approach different?

% Paragraph 5: Contributions (numbered list)
The main contributions of this work are:
\begin{itemize}
    \item We propose a novel approach to X that achieves Y...
    \item We introduce a new benchmark dataset for...
    \item We demonstrate through extensive experiments that...
\end{itemize}

% Paragraph 6 (optional): Roadmap
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows...

\section{Related Work}
% Categorize prior work by approach or method type
% Position your work against each category
% Clearly identify the gap your work fills

\section{Preliminaries}
% Define notation, task formulation
% Background concepts necessary to understand the method

\section{Method}
% Core technical contribution
% Include figures showing architecture/pipeline
% Mathematical formulation with clear equations
% Detailed description of each component

\section{Experiments}
\subsection{Setup}
% Datasets, metrics, implementation details
% Baselines (cite properly)

\subsection{Results}
% Quantitative results in tables
% Comparison with state-of-the-art
% Statistical significance

\subsection{Ablation and Analysis}
% Study each component
% Qualitative results, visualizations
% Error analysis

\section{Conclusion}
% Summary of contributions
% Limitations
% Future directions

References (IEEE Style)

\bibliographystyle{ieeenat_fullname}
\bibliography{main}

% Use small font for references:
{\small
  \bibliographystyle{ieeenat_fullname}
  \bibliography{main}
}

Figures and Tables

Figure Guidelines

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]{figure}
  \caption{Figure caption below the figure.}
  \label{fig:example}
\end{figure}

% Full-width figure:
\begin{figure*}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=0.9\textwidth]{figure}
  \caption{Full-width figure.}
  \label{fig:wide}
\end{figure*}

• Place near the top of the page when possible
• Caption below the figure
• Use vector formats (.pdf, .eps) when possible
• 300 DPI minimum for raster images
• Ensure legible when printed in B&W

Table Guidelines

\begin{table}
  \caption{Table caption above the table.}
  \label{tab:example}
  \centering
  \begin{tabular}{ccc}
    \toprule
    Header1 & Header2 & Header3 \\
    \midrule
    data & data & data \\
    data & data & data \\
    \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{table}

• Caption above the table
• Use booktabs (no vertical rules)
• Professional-quality formatting
• Best results in bold, significance markers ($\dagger$, $\ddagger$)

Subfigures with subcaption

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.23\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig1}
    \caption{Input image}
    \label{fig:sub1}
  \end{subfigure}
  \hfill
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.23\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig2}
    \caption{Ground truth}
    \label{fig:sub2}
  \end{subfigure}
  \hfill
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.23\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig3}
    \caption{Method A}
    \label{fig:sub3}
  \end{subfigure}
  \hfill
  \begin{subfigure}[b]{0.23\textwidth}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{fig4}
    \caption{Ours}
    \label{fig:sub4}
  \end{subfigure}
  \caption{Comparison of different methods on the task.}
  \label{fig:main}
\end{figure}

Section Organization

Standard order:

1. Abstract (in sec/0_abstract.tex)
2. Introduction (sec/1_intro.tex)
3. Related Work (optional)
4. Method
5. Experiments
6. Conclusion
7. References (in main.bib)
8. Appendix (optional, after references)

CVPR-Specific Writing Conventions

Vision-Specific Content

\section{Experiments}
\subsection{Datasets}
We evaluate on standard benchmarks:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{COCO}: 118K training, 5K validation images.
    Annotations include bounding boxes and segmentation masks.
    \item \textbf{ADE20K}: 20K training, 2K validation images.
    Scene parsing with 150 thing/stuff classes.
    \item \textbf{Cityscapes}: 2,975 training, 500 validation images.
    Urban scene understanding with 19 classes.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Metrics}
We report standard metrics:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Object detection:} mAP@0.5:0.95 (COCO standard)
    \item \textbf{Semantic segmentation:} mIoU
    \item \textbf{Instance segmentation:} AP$^{bbox}$, AP$^{mask}$
\end{itemize}

Qualitative Results

\subsection{Qualitative Results}
\autoref{fig:qual} shows qualitative comparisons.
Our method handles challenging cases including...
(Show failure cases in supplementary)

Rebuttal Preparation

CVPR uses an author response period. Use the rebuttal template:

% rebuttal.tex structure:
\section*{Response to Reviewers}

We thank the reviewer for the constructive feedback.

\textbf{R1: Regarding the concern about X...}
We address this concern in two ways: (1) We provide additional
experiments in the revised supplementary material. (2) We clarify
the design choice in the method description...

\textbf{R2: Comparison with method Y...}
We added method Y to our comparison in \autoref{tab:updated}.
Our method remains superior...

\textbf{R3: Mathematical formulation...}
The reviewer raises a valid point. We have added a more detailed
derivation in the appendix.

Rebuttal Best Practices

DO:

• Address every point raised by each reviewer
• Provide new evidence when questioned
• Be specific and concrete
• Acknowledge valid criticisms
• Thank reviewers for their time

DON'T:

• Be defensive or argumentative
• Make vague promises
• Introduce new experiments without context
• Dismiss concerns without explanation

Rebuttal Template Structure

\section*{Response to Reviewers}

\textbf{Overall:} We thank all reviewers for their time and constructive
comments. We address each concern below.

\textbf{Reviewer 1:}
\textbf{Q1: [Summarize question]}
\textbf{A:} [Your response]...

\textbf{Reviewer 2:}
\textbf{Q1: [Summarize question]}
\textbf{A:} [Your response]...

% Appendix: Any additional experiments/changes

Camera-Ready Submission

1. Change to: \usepackage{cvpr}
2. Add complete author information
3. Set correct \paperID
4. Remove any anonymization
5. Verify page limits
6. Generate PDF and validate

Camera-Ready Checklist

• \usepackage{cvpr} (no review option)
• All author names and affiliations complete
• Paper ID correctly set
• Page count verified (≤ 8 pages)
• All figures in final format
• References complete and properly formatted

Supplementary Material

CVPR allows supplementary material:

% Reference supplementary in main text:
Results on additional datasets are provided in Appendix A (supplementary material).

% Supplementary structure:
\appendix
\section{Additional Qualitative Results}
% More figures, videos, etc.

\section{Implementation Details}
% Extended technical description

\section{Proofs}
% Mathematical proofs

Supplementary Guidelines

• Clearly label as "Supplementary Material"
• Maximum file size as specified in CFP
• Anonymized as with main paper
• Referenced in main text
• Not required for acceptance

Shared Template: CVPR and ICCV

CVPR and ICCV share the same cvpr.sty class and formatting rules. Use the same approach for both conferences. Key differences:

• Conference name in \confName
• Paper ID system may differ
• Submission systems differ (CVF for both)

Formatting Rules

• Paper size: US Letter
• Font: Times New Roman (10pt)
• Columns: Two-column
• Margins: Standard CVPR margins
• Line numbers: Shown in review mode
• Page numbers: Hidden in review, shown in camera-ready

Checklist Before Submission

• 8 pages or fewer (excluding refs/appendix)
• No author identification
• Paper ID on each page
• Third-person self-citations
• References use ieeenat_fullname style
• Figure captions below, table captions above
• Vector figures preferred
• B&W legible figures
• All figures referenced in text
• Supplementary material noted (if any)
• Proper notation defined before use
• State-of-the-art baselines compared
• Ablation experiments included
• Statistical significance reported