Microsoft Word Author Guidelines for CVPR Proceedings

First Author Second Author

Institution 1 Institution 2
Institution 1 address Institution 2 address
firstauthor@i1.org secondauthor@i2.org

figure captions and references in a smaller font. The

Abstract reason such papers will not be reviewed is that there is no
provision for supervised revisions of manuscripts. The
The ABSTRACT is to be in fully justified italicized text, reviewing process cannot determine the suitability of the
at the top of the left-hand column, below the author and paper for presentation in eight pages if it is reviewed in
affiliation information. Use the word “Abstract” as the eleven.
title, in 12-point Times, boldface type, centered relative to
the column, initially capitalized. The abstract is to be in 1.4. The ruler
10-point, single-spaced type. Leave two blank lines after The LaTeX style defines a printed ruler which should
the Abstract, then begin the main text. Look at previous be present in the version submitted for review. The ruler
CVPR abstracts to get a feel for style and length. is provided in order that reviewers may comment on
particular lines in the paper without circumlocution. If
you are preparing a document using a non-LaTeX
1. Introduction document preparation system, please arrange for an
Please follow the steps outlined below when submitting equivalent ruler to appear on the final output pages. The
your manuscript to the IEEE Computer Society Press. presence or absence of the ruler should not change the
This style guide now has several important modifications appearance of any other content on the page. The camera-
(for example, you are no longer warned against the use of ready copy should not contain a ruler.
sticky tape to attach your artwork to the paper), so all Reviewers: note that the ruler measurements do not
authors should read this new version. align well with lines in the paper — this turns out to be
very difficult to do well when the paper contains many
1.1. Language figures and equations, and, when done, looks ugly. Just
use fractional references (e.g., this line is 180.5), although
All manuscripts must be in English. in most cases one would expect that the approximate
location will be adequate.
1.2. Dual submission
Please refer to the author guidelines on the CVPR 2024 1.5. Paper ID
web page for a discussion of the policy on dual Make sure that the Paper ID from the submission system
submissions. is visible in the version submitted for review (replacing
the “****” you see in this document).
1.3. Paper length
Papers, excluding the references section, must be no 1.6. Mathematics
longer than eight pages in length. The references section Please number all of your sections and displayed
will not be included in the page count, and there is no equations as in these examples:
limit on the length of the references section. For example,
a paper of eight pages with two pages of references would E=m⋅ c2
have a total length of 10 pages. There will be no extra (1)
page charges for CVPR 2024.
Overlength papers will simply not be reviewed. This and
includes papers where the margins and formatting are v=a ⋅t .
deemed to have been significantly altered from those laid (2)
down by this style guide. Note that this guide already sets
 It is important for readers to be able to refer to any
particular equation. Just because you did not refer to it in
the text does not mean some future reader might not need
to refer to it. It is cumbersome to have to use
circumlocutions like “the equation second from the top of
page 3 column 1”. (Note that the ruler will not be present
in the final copy, so is not an alternative to equation
numbers). All authors will benefit from reading Mermin’s
description of how to write mathematics:
http://www.pamitc.org/documents/mermin
.pdf.

1.7. Blind review Figure 1: Example of a figure with caption. Captions are set in
Many authors misunderstand the concept of roman, 9 point. Use a Drawing area to make space for figures.
anonymizing for blind review. Blind review does not
mean that one must remove citations to one’s own work had previously published related work. In such cases,
—in fact it is often impossible to review a paper unless include the anonymized parallel submission [5] as
the previous citations are known and available. supplemental material and cite it as
Blind review means that you do not use the words
“my” or “our” when citing previous work. That is all. [1] Authors. “The frobnicatable foo filter”, Face and
(But see below for tech reports.) Gesture 2014 submission ID 324, Supplied as
Saying “this builds on the work of Lucy Smith [1]” additional material efg324.pdf.
does not say that you are Lucy Smith, it says that you are Finally, you may feel you need to tell the reader that
building on her work. If you are Smith and Jones, do not more details can be found elsewhere, and refer them to a
say “as we show in [7]”, say “as Smith and Jones show in technical report. For conference submissions, the paper
[7]” and at the end of the paper, include reference 7 as must stand on its own, and not require the reviewer to go
you would any other cited work. to a tech report for further details. Thus, you may say in
An example of a bad paper just asking to be rejected: the body of the paper “further details may be found in
An analysis of the frobnicatable foo filter. [6]”. Then submit the tech report as supplemental
material. Again, you may not assume the reviewers will
In this paper we present a performance analysis read this material.
of our previous paper [1], and show it to be inferior Sometimes your paper is about a problem which you
to all previously known methods. Why the tested using a tool that is widely known to be restricted to
previous paper was accepted without this analysis a single institution. For example, let’s say it’s 1969, you
is beyond me. have solved a key problem on the Apollo lander, and you
[1] Removed for blind review believe that the CVPR70 audience would like to hear
about your solution. The work is a development of your
An example of an excellent paper: celebrated 1968 paper entitled “Zero-g frobnication: How
being the only people in the world with access to the
An analysis of the frobnicatable foo filter. Apollo lander source code makes us a wow at parties”, by
In this paper we present a performance analysis of Zeus et al.
the paper of Smith et al. [1], and show it to be You can handle this paper like any other. Do not write
inferior to all previously known methods. Why the “We show how to improve our previous work
previous paper was accepted without this analysis [Anonymous, 1968]. This time we tested the algorithm on
is beyond me. a lunar lander [name of lander removed for blind
review]”. That would be silly, and would immediately
[1] Smith, L and Jones, C. “The frobnicatable identify the authors. Instead write the following:
foo filter, a fundamental contribution to human
knowledge”. Nature 381(12), 1-213. We describe a system for zero-g frobnication. This
system is new because it handles the following cases:
If you are making a submission to another conference A, B. Previous systems [Zeus et al. 1968] didn’t handle
at the same time, which covers similar or overlapping case B properly. Ours handles it by including a foo
material, you may need to refer to that submission in term in the bar integral.
order to explain the differences, just as you would if you ...
e 2: Short captions should be centered.

The proposed system was integrated with the Apollo This is incorrect: “... subsequently developed by Alpher
lunar lander, and went all the way to the moon, don’t et al. [1] ...” because reference [1] has just two authors.
you know. It displayed the following behaviours which
show how well we solved cases A and B: ... 2. Formatting your paper
As you can see, the above text follows standard All text must be in a two-column format. The total
scientific convention, reads better than the first version, 7
and does not explicitly name you as the authors. A allowable size of the text area is 6 inches (17.46 cm)
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reviewer might think it likely that the new paper was
written by Zeus et al., but cannot make any decision 7
wide by 8 inches (22.54 cm) high. Columns are to be
based on that guess. He or she would have to be sure that 8
no other authors could have been contracted to solve 1 5
problem B. 3 inches (8.25 cm) wide, with a inch (0.8 cm)
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space between them. The main title (on the first page)
FAQ should begin 1 inch (2.54 cm) from the top edge of the
page. The second and following pages should begin 1
Q: Are acknowledgements OK? inch (2.54 cm) from the top edge. On all pages, the
A: No. Leave them for the final copy.
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Q: How do I cite my results reported in open challenges? bottom margin should be 1 inches (2.86 cm) from the
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A: To conform with the double-blind review policy, you bottom edge of the page for 8.5 × 11-inch paper; for A4
can report results of other challenge participants together 5
with your results in your paper. For your results, however, paper, approximately 1 inches (4.13 cm) from the
you should not identify yourself and should not mention 8
your participation in the challenge. Instead present your bottom edge of the page.
results referring to the method proposed in your paper and
draw conclusions based on the experimental comparison 2.1. Margins and page numbering
to other results. All printed material, including text, illustrations, and
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charts, must be kept within a print area 6 inches (17.46
1.8. Miscellaneous 8
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When citing a multi-author paper, you may save space cm) wide by 8 inches (22.54 cm) high. Page numbers
by using “et alia”, shortened to “et al.” (not “et. al.” as 8
“et” is a complete word.) If you use the \etal macro 3
should be in the footer, centered and inches from the
provided, then you need not worry about double periods 4
when used at the end of a sentence as in Alpher et al. bottom of the page. The review version should have page
However, use it only when there are three or more numbers, yet the final version submitted as camera ready
authors. Thus, the following is correct: “Frobnication has should not show any page numbers.
been trendy lately. It was introduced by Alpher [3], and
subsequently developed by Alpher and Fotheringham-
Smythe [1], and Alpher et al. [2].”
2.2. Type style and fonts 2.4. References
Wherever Times is specified, Times Roman may also List and number all bibliographical references in 9-point
be used. If neither is available on your word processor, Times, single-spaced, at the end of your paper. When
please use the font closest in appearance to Times to referenced in the text, enclose the citation number in
which you have access. square brackets, for example [5]. Where appropriate,
3 include page numbers and the name(s) of editors of
MAIN TITLE. Center the title 1 inches (3.49 cm) referenced books. When you cite multiple papers at once,
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please make sure that you cite them in numerical order
from the top edge of the first page. The title should be in
like this [1, 2, 4-6].
Times 14-point, boldface type. Capitalize the first letter of
nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; do not
capitalize articles, coordinate conjunctions, or 2.5. Illustrations, graphs, and photographs
prepositions (unless the title begins with such a word). All graphics should be centered. Please ensure that any
Leave two blank lines after the title. point you wish to make is resolvable in a printed copy of
AUTHOR NAME(s) and AFFILIATION(s) are to be the paper. Resize fonts in figures to match the font in the
centered beneath the title and printed in Times 12-point, body text, and choose line widths which render
non-boldface type. This information is to be followed by effectively in print. Readers (and reviewers), even of an
two blank lines. electronic copy, may choose to print your paper in order
The ABSTRACT and MAIN TEXT are to be in a two- to read it. You cannot insist that they do otherwise, and
column format. therefore must not assume that they can zoom in to see
MAIN TEXT. Type main text in 10-point Times, tiny details on a graphic.
single-spaced. Do NOT use double-spacing. All
paragraphs should be indented 1 pica (approx. 1/6 inch or 2.6. Color
0.422 cm). Make sure your text is fully justified—that is,
flush left and flush right. Please do not place any Please refer to the author guidelines on the CVPR 2024
additional blank lines between paragraphs. web page for a discussion of the use of color in your
Figure and table captions should be 9-point Roman document.
type as in Figs. 1 and 2. Short captions should be If you use color in your plots, please keep in mind that
centered. a significant subset of reviewers and readers may have a
Callouts should be 9-point Helvetica, non-boldface color vision deficiency; red-green blindness is the most
type. Initially capitalize only the first word of section frequent kind. Hence avoid relying only on color as the
titles and first-, second-, and third-order headings. discriminative feature in plots (such as red vs. green
FIRST-ORDER HEADINGS. (For example, 1. lines), but add a second discriminative feature to ease
disambiguation.
Introduction) should be Times 12-point boldface,
initially capitalized, flush left, with one blank line before,
and one blank line after. 3. Final copy
SECOND-ORDER HEADINGS. (For example, 1.1 You must include your signed IEEE copyright release
Database elements) should be Times 11-point form when you submit your finished paper. We MUST
boldface, initially capitalized, flush left, with one blank have this form before your paper can be published in the
line before, and one after. If you require a third-order proceedings. Please direct any questions to the production
heading (we discourage it), use 10-point Times, boldface, editor in charge of these proceedings at the IEEE
initially capitalized, flush left, preceded by one blank line, Computer Society Press:
followed by a period and your text on the same line. https://www.computer.org/about/contact

2.3. Footnotes References

Please use footnotes1 sparingly. Indeed, try to avoid [1] FirstName Alpher, Frobnication. IEEE TPAMI, 12(1):234–
778, 2002.
footnotes altogether and include necessary peripheral
[2] FirstName Alpher and FirstName Fotheringham-Smythe.
observations in the text (within parentheses, if you prefer, Frobnication revisited. Journal of Foo, 13(1):234–778,
as in this sentence). If you wish to use a footnote, place it 2003.
at the bottom of the column on the page on which it is [3] FirstName Alpher, FirstName Fotheringham-Smythe, and
referenced. Use Times 8-point type, single-spaced. FirstName Gamow. Can a machine frobnicate? Journal of
Foo, 14(1):234–778, 2004.
1 [4] FirstName Alpher and FirstName Gamow. Can a computer
This is what a footnote looks like. It often distracts the reader
from the main flow of the argument. frobnicate? In CVPR, pages 234–778, 2005.
[5] FirstName LastName. The frobnicatable foo filter, 2014.
Face and Gesture submission ID 324. Supplied as
supplemental material fg324.pdf.
[6] FirstName LastName. Frobnication tutorial, 2014. Supplied
as supplemental material tr.pdf.