CVPR 2026 Author Guidelines Thank you for submitting your paper(s) to CVPR 2026. This document outlines the expectations for all authors and submissions. Contents What’s New for Submissions and Authors at CVPR 2026? Submission Policies Rebuttal Policies Ethics Guidelines for Authors Author FAQs What’s New for Submissions & Authors at CVPR 2026? Compute reporting: This year, CVPR introduces an experimental compute reporting initiative for authors, with awards recognizing exceptional efficiency and transparency. The CV/AI community benefits from understanding the computational landscape of our research - from resource requirements to efficiency innovations. Other conferences have already established similar programs. Our goal is to collect data that enables community-wide benchmarking and promotes innovation in computational efficiency, without affecting the review process - reports are not visible to reviewers and will not influence acceptance decisions. Detailed guidelines and reporting instructions are available on this page . Findings track: CVPR 2026 introduces a new Findings Track, following successful pilots in ICCV. The goal is to reduce resubmissions by offering a venue for technically sound papers with solid experimental validation, even if their novelty is more incremental. Area Chairs will recommend papers to the Findings Track. Findings Track organizers will invite authors of recommended papers to submit their work. If authors decide to submit, reviews and metareviews will be shared with the Findings Track committee. Findings papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. Detailed guidelines will be made available. External links: Authors are not allowed to include external links (e.g., to webpages, images, or videos) in submissions, supplementary material, and rebuttal, when the links expand content and subvert the reviewing process. Such links risk violating anonymity, breaching the media ban, or bypassing length and deadline restrictions. All content must be self-contained within the submission and supplementary files. See Author FAQs for more details. Prompt injection: Hidden text or instructions to influence reviewers/tools, is strictly prohibited and considered an ethics violation. Submissions containing such attempts will be desk-rejected without review and may face further sanctions. Please check the FAQ section on LLM usage. Submission Policies All authors should carefully review the following policies that govern the submission and review process, as failure to comply with these policies may result in the rejection of your submission as well as possible additional sanctions in the case of dual submissions and plagiarism. In addition, authors are urged to consult the ethics guidelines and the FAQs. Paper formatting: Papers are limited to eight pages, including figures and tables, in the CVPR style. Additional pages containing only cited references are allowed. Please download the CVPR 2026 Submission Template for detailed formatting instructions. Papers that are not properly anonymized, or do not use the template, or have more than eight pages (excluding references) will be rejected without review. Submission and review process: CVPR 2026 will be using OpenReview to manage submissions. Consistent with the review process for previous CVPR conferences, submissions under review will be visible only to their assigned members of the program committee (area chairs and reviewers). The reviews and author responses will never be made public, and we will not be soliciting comments from the general public during the reviewing process. By submitting a paper to CVPR, the authors agree to the review process and understand that papers are processed by the OpenReview system to match each manuscript to the best possible area chairs and reviewers. OpenReview profile completion: Anyone who plans to submit a paper as an author or a co-author will need to create (or update) their OpenReview profile by the abstract submission deadline. Complete OpenReview profiles are required for better assignment and conflict detection. Papers with authors who have not completed their profiles will be desk-rejected. OpenReview author instructions can be found here . Exceptions and accommodations: Due to the large number of submissions, deadlines and policies will be strictly enforced. There will be no exceptions or accommodations for: Late submissions; Misconfigured author or co-author accounts on OpenReview; and/or Changes to the author lists after the abstract submission deadline. You should not expect a response or detailed explanation of any policies from the PCs for any of these issues no matter the reason. If there is a large-scale technical catastrophe affecting the entire community, the PCs will be aware of the issue and communicate the resolution to the entire community. Confidentiality: All members of the program committee (program chairs, area chairs, and reviewers) are instructed to keep all information about their assigned submissions confidential and not to share or distribute materials for any reason except to facilitate the reviewing of the submitted work. Misuse of confidential information is a severe professional failure and appropriate measures will be taken when brought to the attention of the CVPR organizers. It should be noted, however, that all program committee members are volunteers, and the CVPR organization is not and cannot be held responsible for the consequences if confidentiality is broken due to a violation during the review process. Conflict responsibilities: Anyone who plans to submit a paper as an author or a co-author will need to create or update their OpenReview profile. You will be asked to declare two types of conflicts – domain and personal conflicts – by filling out appropriate sections of your OpenReview profile, as described on the OpenReview author instructions page . If any author of a submission is found to have incomplete or inaccurate conflict information, the submission may be summarily rejected. To avoid undeclared conflicts, authors cannot be added or deleted after the abstract submission deadline ( Nov 06 2025 ), but only reordered. The order of the author list is considered final after the paper submission deadline ( Nov 13 2025 ) and no changes are allowed thereafter, including for accepted papers. Moreover, all authors of a paper must have a valid OpenReview profile by the abstract submission deadline ( Nov 06 2025 ) to avoid desk rejection.  Profiles need to be completed and/or updated by the Open Review Profile deadline (Nov 16 2025). Double blind review: CVPR reviewing is double blind, in that authors do not know the names of the area chairs or reviewers for their papers, and the area chairs/reviewers cannot, beyond a reasonable doubt, infer the names of the authors from the submission and the additional material. Do not provide information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs) nor in the supplementary material (e.g., author/institution names in demo videos, or non-anonymized attached papers). Additionally, do not provide links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines may lead to rejection without review. If you need to cite any of your own papers that are being submitted concurrently to another venue, you should (1) include anonymized versions of those papers in the supplementary material; (2) cite these anonymized papers; and (3) argue in the body of your paper why your CVPR submission is non-trivially different from these concurrent submissions. Plagiarism: Plagiarism consists of appropriating the words or results of another, without credit. CVPR 2026's policy on plagiarism is to refer suspected cases to the IEEE Intellectual Property Office, which has an established mechanism for dealing with plagiarism and wide powers of excluding offending authors from future conferences and from IEEE journals. You can find information on this office, their procedures, and their definitions of five levels of plagiarism on this webpage . We will be actively checking for plagiarism. Furthermore, the paper matching system is quite accurate. As a result, it regularly happens that a paper containing plagiarized material goes to a reviewer from whom material was plagiarized; experience shows that such reviewers pursue plagiarism cases enthusiastically. Dual submissions: The goals of CVPR are to publish exciting new work for the first time and to avoid duplicating the effort of reviewers. By registering or submitting a manuscript to CVPR, the authors acknowledge that it has not been previously published or accepted for publication in substantially similar form in any peer-reviewed venue, including journal, conference or workshop, or archival forum. Furthermore, no publication substantially similar in content (defined as having 20 percent or more overlap) has been or will be registered or submitted to this or another conference, workshop, or journal during the review period. Violation of any of these conditions will lead to rejection, and will be reported to the other venue to which the submission was sent. A publication, for the purposes of this policy, is defined to be a written work longer than four pages (excluding references) that was submitted for review by peers for either acceptance or rejection, and, after review, was accepted. In particular, this definition of publication does not depend upon whether such an accepted written work appears in a formal proceedings or whether the organizers declare that such work “counts as a publication.” Under the above definition, arXiv preprints and university technical reports are not considered as publications. However, peer-reviewed workshop papers are considered as publications if their length is more than four pages (excluding references), even if they do not appear in a proceedings. Note that a technical report (departmental, arXiv, etc.) version of the submission that is put up without any form of direct peer-review is NOT considered prior art and does NOT NEED to be cited in the submission; authors may cite such material, but cannot be penalized for not citing it. Supplementary material submission: The authors may optionally submit additional material that could not be included due to constraints of format or space. The authors should refer to the contents of the supplementary material appropriately in the paper. Reviewers will be encouraged to look at it, but are not obligated to do so. Supplementary material may include videos, proofs, additional figures or tables, more detailed analysis of experiments presented in the paper, or a concurrent submission to another conference. We encourage (but do not require) authors to upload their code as part of their supplementary material in order to help reviewers assess the quality of the work. Personal and human subjects data: If a paper makes use of personal data and/or data from human subjects, including personally identifiable information or offensive content, we expect that the collection and use of such data has been conducted carefully in accordance with the ethics guidelines (see below). In many countries and institutions, the collection and use of personally identifiable data or data from human subjects is subject to approval from an Institutional Review Board (IRB, or equivalent). If the use of such data was approved by an IRB, stating this is sufficient. If the use of such data has not (yet) been approved by an IRB, authors should provide information on any pending approval process, how the data was obtained, as well as discuss if and how consent was obtained (or why it, perhaps, could not be obtained). This discussion can be included either in the main paper or in the supplementary material. If the authors use an existing, published dataset, we encourage (but do not require) them to check how data was collected and whether consent was obtained. Attendance responsibilities: The authors agree that if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the paper there. Publication: All accepted papers will be made publicly available by the Computer Vision Foundation (CVF) two weeks before the conference. Authors wishing to submit a patent should understand that the paper's official public disclosure is two weeks before the conference or whenever the authors make it publicly available, whichever is first. The conference considers papers confidential until published two weeks before the conference, but notes that multiple organizations will have access during the review and production processes, so those seeking patents should discuss filing dates with their IP council. The conference assumes no liability for early disclosures. More information about CVF is available at https://www.thecvf.com/ . Restrictions on publicity and media: Papers submitted to CVPR must not be discussed with the media until they have been officially accepted for publication. Violations of the embargo will result in the paper being removed from the conference and proceedings. Authors acting as reviewers: Given the growth in the number of paper submissions, and per the motion passed in the CVPR 2022 PAMI-TC meeting, we expect all authors to be willing to serve as reviewers if asked to do so. To help us identify qualified reviewers, and to match submissions to reviewers, all authors are required to have an up-to-date OpenReview profile (see OpenReview author instructions ). Given the benefits authors gain from having a paper accepted at CVPR, it is unfair to the community when authors do not contribute to the reviewing process. Authors will be automatically added to the reviewer pool unless they are exempted. At a later stage, PCs will ensure the qualifications of all reviewers. In particular, authors who serve in another capacity within the organization of CVPR 2026 are exempt from this requirement. It is recognized that not all authors may be qualified to serve as reviewers. Authors who are new to or outside the computer vision community will be exempted. To request an exemption, please complete the form available at Help Desk . Maximum number of submissions: Each author is limited to a maximum of 25 paper submissions. If an author registers more than 25 papers, the Program Chairs (PCs) will desk-reject any submissions exceeding this limit. Author Registration Reminders To ensure all submissions meet requirements, the system will send automated reminder emails to corresponding authors if any co-authors have: Incomplete OpenReview profiles Incomplete author enrollment What to expect: Email subject: “[CVPR 2026] Submission at risk of being desk-rejected” The email will list specific co-authors who need to complete their profiles or registration Reminders will be sent until all co-authors complete their requirements or the abstract deadline passes If you receive a reminder: Check which co-auth