Author Guidelines

ACCV 2026 Author Guidelines

1. Overview

Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers in all areas of computer vision and related topics. Submitted papers must present new research results and must not be under review at another archival venue during the review period.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • 3D Computer Vision
  • Applications of Computer Vision, Vision for X
  • Autonomous driving
  • Big Data, Large Scale Methods
  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Biometrics
  • Computational Photography, Sensing, and Display
  • Datasets and Performance Analysis
  • Deep Learning for Computer Vision
  •  Document image analysis
  • Face and Gesture
  • Pose and Action
  • Generative models for computer vision
  • Illumination and Reflectance Modeling
  • Low-level Vision, Image Processing
  • Motion and Tracking
  • Optimization Methods
  • Physics-based Vision and Shape from X
  • Recognition: Feature Detection, Indexing, Matching, and Shape Representation
  • RGBD and Depth Image Processing
  • Robot Vision
  • Scene analysis and understanding
  • Segmentation and Grouping
  • Statistical Methods and Learning
  • Video Analysis and Event Recognition
  • Vision and Language

The proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Best papers by students and researchers will be awarded. Award-winning papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).

2. Important Dates

  • OpenReview site opens for submissions: May 2026
  • Workshop/Tutorial proposal deadline: June 28, 2026
  • Submission registration deadline: July 3, 2026
  • Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2026
  • Supplementary material deadline: July 8, 2026
  • Demo paper submissions deadline: August 6, 2026
  • Reviews released to authors: August 26, 2026
  • Rebuttal deadline: September 2, 2026
  • Paper decision notification: September 20, 2026
  • Camera-ready deadline: October 4, 2026

3. Submission Format

Papers must be prepared using the official LNCS style files. Authors must download and use the official LaTeX template for the main paper (ACCV_2026_template.zip)The paper length is limited to 14 pages, including all figures and tables. An unlimited number of additional pages containing only references is allowed.

Submissions must be anonymous and must follow the formatting instructions. Papers that exceed the page limit, violate the formatting requirements, or reveal the authors’ identities may be rejected without review.

All papers must be submitted in PDF format.

As in previous years, WACV 2025 will employ a two-round review process. New papers can be submitted in either the first or the second round. The primary benefit of submitting in Round 1 is that submissions can be invited for resubmission to Round 2, enabling authors to address reviewer concerns and significantly improve their work. Round 2 submissions do not have a rebuttal.

4. Submission Site and Registration

Paper submissions will be handled through OpenReview at:

https://openreview.net/group?id=afcv.org/ACCV/2026/Conference

By the registration deadline, authors must enter the required submission information, including the paper title, abstract, author list, and subject areas. Additional metadata may be required by the submission system.

New submissions cannot be registered after the registration deadline. Authors are therefore advised to complete registration well before the deadl

5. OpenReview Profiles and Conflict Information

All authors must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile at the time of submission. This information is used for reviewer matching and conflict-of-interest management.

Authors are responsible for providing accurate conflict information. Papers with incomplete or incorrect conflict declarations may be rejected without review.

To ensure proper conflict handling, the full author list should be entered by the registration deadline. After that point, changes to the author list will only be permitted in exceptional cases. After the paper submission deadline, the author list is considered final.

6. Double-Blind Review Policy

Review is double blind. Authors must take reasonable care not to reveal their identities in the paper or supplementary material.

In particular:

  • Acknowledgements must be omitted from the submission;
  • Institutional names, lab names, grant numbers, and similar identifying information should not be included;
  • Author-identifying information should not appear in videos or supplementary files;
  • Links to personal, project, or institutional webpages that reveal authorship must not be included.

If authors cite their own closely related work, they should do so in a way that does not compromise anonymity.

Papers that do not follow the anonymity requirements may be rejected without review.

7. Submission Integrity and Improper Influence

Submissions must not contain hidden prompts, invisible text, embedded instructions, or other concealed content intended to influence reviewers, Area Chairs, or automated systems used in the review process.

Authors must not include external links in the main paper, supplementary material, or rebuttal when such links expand the content of the submission or otherwise risk subverting the review process. Such links may compromise anonymity, bypass media restrictions, or circumvent page limits or deadlines. All submission content to be considered in review must be contained in the paper and supplementary files themselves.

If a submission contains suspicious concealed content or otherwise appears designed to manipulate reviewers, Area Chairs, or automated systems, it may be desk-rejected and may be subject to further action at the discretion of the Program Chairs

8. Confidentiality of the Review Process

Submissions, supplementary materials, reviews, and author responses are confidential and must not be shared outside the review process.

All participants in the review process are expected to respect this confidentiality.

9. Originality, Plagiarism, and Dual Submission

Submitted papers must be original. A submission must not be under review at another archival venue during the review period, and it must not substantially overlap with prior or concurrent published work.

The conference may use plagiarism detection tools and other checks for dual submission and excessive overlap. Papers found to violate these policies may be rejected and may be subject to further action.

Posting a preprint or technical report does not by itself constitute prior publication. However, authors remain responsible for preserving anonymity and complying with these guidelines

Posting or updating a preprint on arXiv or a similar non-peer-reviewed public server during the review period is permitted. However, authors remain responsible for preserving anonymity in the submission and supplementary material, and must not use such postings to interfere with the integrity of the double-blind review process.

10. Supplementary Material

Authors may submit supplementary material by the supplementary material deadline.

Supplementary material may include items such as:

  • videos,
  • proofs,
  • Additional qualitative or quantitative results,
  • Implementation details,
  • Anonymized code,
  • Anonymized versions of closely related submissions.

The main paper must be self-contained. Supplementary material is intended to support the submission, not to replace essential content.

Supplementary material may include videos, proofs, additional figures or tables, more detailed analyses of experiments presented in the paper, implementation details, anonymized code, or anonymized versions of closely related submissions. Authors should refer to the supplementary material appropriately in the paper.

The paper must remain self-contained. Reviewers will be encouraged to inspect the supplementary material, but are not required to do so.

Supplementary material must not be used to circumvent the submission deadline or page limit. In particular, it must not contain a revised or corrected version of the paper, newly obtained results from an improved version of the method, or material that substantially changes the submission after the paper deadline.

External links are not permitted when they expand the content of the submission or otherwise risk subverting the review process. All material intended for review, including code, videos, images, and other media, must be included directly in the supplementary files in anonymized form rather than provided through external links.

11. Code, Data, and Reproducibility

Authors are encouraged to submit anonymized code, videos, and other relevant media directly as supplementary material, rather than through external links.

Authors are also encouraged to provide enough detail to make the work reproducible, including training settings, hyperparameters, preprocessing, evaluation protocols, and other information needed to understand the reported results.

If a paper claims dataset release as a contribution, the dataset should be made available no later than the camera-ready deadline.

12. Limitations

Authors are encouraged to discuss the limitations of their work. This may include assumptions, failure cases, sensitivity to data conditions, computational cost, or restrictions on the scope of the claims.

A clear statement of limitations will be considered positively as part of good scientific practice.

13. Ethical Responsibilities

Authors are expected to consider the broader impact of their work and to conduct research responsibly.

Submissions should address ethical issues where relevant, including possible risks related to privacy, fairness, bias, surveillance, security, safety, or harmful misuse.

If the work uses human-derived data, personal data, or sensitive content, the paper should clearly state how such data were collected and handled. Where applicable, authors should indicate whether ethics approval or exemption was obtained, and whether informed consent was secured.

Papers raising significant ethical concerns may be subject to additional review.

14. Figures, Media, and Copyright

Authors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions for figures, images, videos, and other material included in the submission.

Special care should be taken when using media containing identifiable individuals, minors, patients, or other sensitive subjects.

15. Rebuttal / Author Response

After the reviews are released, authors may submit an optional rebuttal responding to the reviewers’ comments. The rebuttal must be prepared as a single-page PDF using the official rebuttal LaTeX template provided by the conference (ACCV_2026_rebuttal_template.zip). The rebuttal must preserve anonymity. It must not include external links to outside material, including videos, code repositories, or webpages, when such links are used to

expand the content of the submission or bypass the review constraints. Any material intended to be considered in review must be contained within the rebuttal itself or within the already-submitted paper and supplementary files.

Rebuttals that exceed the one-page limit will not be considered. This includes rebuttals whose margins, font size, or formatting have been altered in a substantial way from the required style.

The purpose of the rebuttal is to address factual errors, clarify misunderstandings, and provide information specifically requested by the reviewers. It is not intended for introducing new contributions that were not part of the original submission. However, additional results or analyses may be included when they are explicitly requested by the reviewers and are used only to address points raised during the review.

Authors may include a figure, graph, or proof when it helps clarify a response to the reviewers’ comments, provided that the rebuttal remains within the required format and length.

16. Publicity Policy

Authors should not make public announcements that treat a submission as accepted before the official decision is released.

Authors should also avoid publicity that could compromise the integrity of the review process.

17. Acceptance, Registration, and Presentation

For an accepted paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must complete registration, the camera-ready version must be submitted on time, and the paper must be presented at the conference.

Papers that do not satisfy these requirements may be removed from the proceedings.