CVPR Cover Letter

CVPR and sister vision venues (ICCV, ECCV, WACV) do not use a cover letter for the main track — submission is through the structured CMT / OpenReview forms, not a free-form letter. Use this snapshot only when a venue or workshop explicitly requires one. The declarations below describe what such a letter would contain.

Tone

• Empirically focused. Vision reviewers expect strong benchmark evidence.
• Concise; do not pad with motivation already present in the abstract.

Opening

• One sentence stating the technical contribution (architecture, training paradigm, dataset, benchmark).

Contribution Framing

• Three concise contributions.
• One quantitative anchor (typically a benchmark result with the dataset named).
• Acknowledge the comparison set briefly.

Journal Fit

• Two sentences connecting the contribution to the CVPR scope.

Declarations (Required for CVPR)

• Originality and dual-submission compliance.
• Anonymized submission confirmation (CVPR uses double-blind review).

Length

• Hard ceiling: 400 words.

Common Desk-Reject Triggers

• Anonymization violation in the manuscript that bleeds into the cover letter.
• Benchmark results without naming the dataset, split, or protocol.