CVPR Daily - Thursday

4 DAILY CVPR Thursday Editorial Good morning CVPR! Welcome to the fourth and final edition of CVPR Daily for 2021 , published by Computer Vision News. It has been such an exciting week with so much captivating content. A big congratulations to everyone involved – you should feel very proud ! As this year’s event draws to a close, we find ourselves looking ahead to the next. Online meetings have become a new normal, and they have many positive aspects, but normal is a relative term, and for a conference the possibility to get together in person and informally exchange ideas and experiences is invaluable. As successful as this virtual conference has been, we all hope that next year we will finally be able to come together as a community in person at CVPR 2022 in New Orleans, Louisiana. What a joy that would be! Preparations for 2022 are already underway and we are delighted to announce that we have just added an extra space on our program chair board. Richa Singh from the Indian Institute of Technology will be joining us ( Stefan Roth and Gang Hua ), Dimitris Samaras from Stony Brook University, and Kristin Dana from Rutgers University to take our number from four to five. When I (Gang) was one of the program chairs in 2019, all four of us were new to the duty, and the number one thing we learned was to plan ahead. We had a cheat sheet with all the key dates we needed to meet, and we would check off the tasks one by one as we go. You will be pleased to hear we have already begun this process for next year! We are committed to ensuring the high-quality review process you are all used to is maintained . It is well-established, trusted, and has proved to be especially strong this year in the face of the pandemic, so we are not intending to make any big changes to it. We will be adopting all the good practice that has proved successful in recent years, including using emergency reviewers to fill in for missing reviews. Assembling the most qualified and responsible set of area chairs will be key to help facilitate this. We foresee around 9,000 submissions and are planning for 300 area chairs to be responsible for 30 papers each . The most crucial thing for us is that the review process is fair to every single paper and transparent for the authors. Unlike other conferences, CVPR never sets a target acceptance rate, but despite this, the rate remains very stable.