CVPR Daily - Tuesday

4 DAILY CVPR Tuesday Editorial... Good morning CVPR! We have already seen two busy and very successful days of workshops and are looking forward to another full day on Friday. With 83 workshops in total , a mix of half and full days, there is so much still to come! The workshop program keeps growing and covers a huge range of interesting topics this year, exploring the current and future of computer vision, and touching on a variety of other communities too. Workshops can be a gateway to the CVPR community , and we are now accommodating a wider range of people from other fields of research. This year, in line with our international virtual audience, the workshops have been scheduled flexibly across the 24-hour program. As well as subjects we are all familiar with, such as learning and autonomous driving, we have several workshops looking at datasets, fairness and ethics in computer vision, which are extremely important emerging topics. We are happy to see the computer vision community starting to catch up with the machine learning community in this area. The most challenging part for us was selecting which workshops to accept. We had more than 100 submissions and couldn’t offer a place to them all, although we would have liked to! It wasn’t an easy choice. We even asked some workshops to merge if we felt their topics overlapped so that we could include more. With one more day of workshops to go this year, if you haven’t dived in yet, don’t be shy! If you are a first-time attendee, just know that you can’t make a wrong choice. It’s a great opportunity to actively explore and engage with interesting communities that will either align with your research interests or be something you’ve never thought about before. They may even spark off a new area of interest for you . Take advantage of the live elements to interact with people and make connections. Don’t be afraid of participating where you can because it is through those conversations that you will learn the most. There’s no bad way to engage with this. To the workshop chairs for CVPR 2022 , we would encourage you to continue cultivating new talent in the community. Try to reach out to folk who haven’t organized workshops before to encourage them to take part. To future chairs, we would also say, spreadsheets and organizational tools are your friends! One change we made this year was doing away with PDF submissions and asking people to fill out an online questionnaire instead, which was much easier to export and organize. It was a small change, but it made a huge difference and enabled us to provide faster and smarter feedback to workshop organizers . We would advise next year’s chairs to do the same. Use the