About Preprints, Anonymity, and Media Promotion

Created by Patrick Kellenberger, Modified on Thu, 7 Nov at 7:11 PM by Patrick Kellenberger

Q. Does a Technical Report (departmental, arXiv, etc.) available online count as a prior publication, and therefore is that work ineligible for review and publication at CVPR 2025?

A. Please read the dual submission policy.


Q. Does a document on GitHub or other open repositories count as a publication, and therefore is ineligible for review and publication at CVPR 2025?

A. GitHub documents are not publications and won't be treated as such. To preserve anonymity, you should not cite your public codebase. You can say that the code will be made publicly available.


Q. Does a presentation at a departmental seminar during the review period violate the anonymity or media promotion policy?

A. It does not. Presentation of material at an academic talk, without mentioning it as being in submission to CVPR, is acceptable.


Q. Can I list my CVPR submission in an application for a job or graduate program?

A. Yes. As long as you communicate this information confidentially and to a small group of people, it is OK. However, you should not list CVPR submissions on public websites or on media (see below).


Q. Can I post my submission on arXiv or TechRxiv? 

A. Yes, you may.


Q. Can I have a video link in my arXiv paper?

A. Yes, you may. 


Q. Can I build a project website related to my arXiv paper?

A. Yes, you may.


Q. How do I cite my results reported in open challenges?

A. To conform with the double blind review policy, you can report results of other challenge participants together with your results in your paper. For your results, however, you should not identify yourself and should not mention your participation in the challenge. Instead, present your results referring to the method proposed in your paper and draw conclusions based on the experimental comparison to other results.


Q. Does my submission need to cite arXiv papers that are related to my work?

A. Consistent with good academic practice, you need to cite all sources that inspired and informed your own work. This said, asking authors to thoroughly compare their work with arXiv reports that appeared shortly before the submission deadline imposes an unreasonable burden. We also do not wish to discourage the publication of similar ideas that have been developed independently and concurrently. Authors and reviewers should keep the following guidelines in mind:

  • Authors are not required to discuss and compare their work with recent arXiv reports, although they must properly cite those that inspired them.
  • To reduce confusion, whenever citing papers that initially appeared on arXiv, the authors should check whether those papers had subsequently been published in a peer-reviewed venue, and to cite those versions accordingly.
  • Failing to cite an arXiv paper or failing to beat its performance SHOULD NOT be sole grounds for rejection.
  • Reviewers SHOULD NOT reject a paper solely because another paper with a similar idea has already appeared on arXiv. If the reviewer suspects plagiarism or academic dishonesty, they are encouraged to bring these concerns to the attention of area and program chairs.
  • It is acceptable for a reviewer to suggest that an author should acknowledge or be aware of something on arXiv.


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