| name | cvpr-submission |
| description | Use when auditing a CVPR submission before the OpenReview deadline, covering abstract registration and profile requirements, the 8-page limit including figures and tables, the Compute Reporting Form, anonymity and external-link bans, dual-submission attestations, reviewer-duty enrollment, and desk-reject triage. |
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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
pdftotext paper.pdf - | grep -nEi 'github\.com|drive\.google|project page|our (prior|previous) work' | head
pdfinfo paper.pdf | grep -Ei 'author|creator|producer'
grep -rn 'vspace\|\\addtolength\|geometry' main.tex
pdftotext paper.pdf - | awk 'END{print NR" lines extracted"}'
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
- Freeze the 8-page body; late edits go to the supplement queue, not the PDF.
- Rebuild from a clean checkout of the official kit and verify no local style patches
leaked in.
- Run the mechanical sweep above; treat every hit as a blocker.
- Complete the OpenReview form fields and CRF a full day early; the abstract field must
match the PDF verbatim because reviewers bid on it.
- 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>
