AC FAQs
Conflicts with Papers Assigned to Area Chairs.
- I recognize a piece of work (ie I know the authors) should I recuse myself from the paper? They are not collaborators and I have no financial ties or other connections with them. My feeling is that I can be impartial and handle the review but it is your call.
- If you think you can do the review impartially and fairly, and there is no direct conflict, we think you should review this paper, as we feel you are best qualified for it. Thanks for letting us know.
- I have been assigned a paper that might be pretty close to things I am working on at present (I don’t know for sure since I didn’t want to look at the full paper). I would like to decline handling that paper, if possible, on grounds of potential conflict of interest.
- Thanks for letting us know. Yes, this does qualify as a conflict of interest so we will assign to some other Area Chair.
- I see a paper that I know is authored by a recent collaborator of mine (collaborated in last 3 years). I am reasonably confident I can still render a fair and an impartial review. But wanted to let you know.
- This appears to be a conflict. While, we do trust you to be fair and impartial, it is best to have someone else take over this paper. Thanks for letting us know. We will swap it.
- I have a paper assigned to me that appears to be very similar to one that I have just co-authored for CVPR 2009. I can be still objective in review of this paper, irrespective of my submission.
- Thanks for telling us. We feel you are the expert in the area and trust you will do a good job. If you feel you cannot, then we will re-assign to another area chair.
Assigning Reviewers.
- What should I do with a paper with the names of the authors explicitly mentioned ?
- Papers with authors names explicitly violate the anonymity requirement of CVPR and and will be rejected. Let the Program Chairs know the paper id. Thanks.
- What should I do with a paper that did not exactly follow the required format?
- If the paper is still 2 column style CVPR format (missing the line numbers, paper id on every page, etc.) and not longer then 8 pages (font not too small, margins ok, etc.), then it is fine to assign reviewers to (We don’t want to be too rigid).
- What about papers that over 8 pages long?
- Overall, our hard-line policy is (as the authors were warned!) that the paper will be rejected. If you see a paper with just a citation or 1-2 lines on page 9, then we are letting it go. But if the paper is grossly over onto page 9, then it is a “administrative” reject.
- Is there a race to assign reviewers? If I do not assign reviewers by Dec 4, will I loose all the good reviewers for papers assigned to me?
- No, there is NO race. You are choosing (recommending) 5+ reviewers for each paper and on Dec 14, we will optimize the assignments based on (a) reviewer load, (b) your choice/rank of a reviewer, and (c) subject area match to reviewer. We hope this way, good reviewers per your choice will be assigned the paper you are an AC of. However, we do not want to see all of waiting until Dec 8 and after to assign papers.
- I have scanned a paper and it seems very weak and will be rejected, what should I do?
- Unfortunately, if the paper has been submitted and does not meet a direct criteria for an administrative reject (non-anonymous, too long, dual-submission, etc.) then the paper has to be reviewed. Give the paper a fair chance and have it reviewed. We agree that sometimes this is a waste of reviewing resources, but we feel the authors deserve the best from us.
Assigning New Reviewers
- When should I decide to assign a new reviewer that is not in the database of reviewers?
- After you scan a paper to see what is the content, some obvious names of reviewers will come to your mind. Look for them in the reviewer lists. All reviewers should be visible to you (there are over 700 of them, so it is a bit slow). They are sorted by “subject area relevance” (matching their chosen subject areas to authors’ subject areas for their paper). If you do not see the person you wish to review the paper, then consider adding them as an additional reviewer. Consider however that (a) this person may already have been asked to review for CVPR09 and may have declined and (b) this person may not have the time to review for this time. So DO NOT consider that the new reviewer will agree to do this review. Add an extra reviewer as a back-up for this one.
Area Chairs Meeting
- When and where is the Area Chairs’ Meeting?
- AC Meeting will be held on the GA Tech Campus, Feb 21-22 (Sat/Sun), 2009. All AC are expected to arrive on Feb 20 (Fri), 2009, and be there until the session ends on the evening of Feb 22 (Sun), which will then be followed by a dinner. All ACs are invited to stay an extra day, Feb 23 (Mon), 2009 to participate in an informal workshop on computer vision related topics.
- When should we make reservations for the AC meeting?
- Soon you will be getting instructions from General Chair Jim Rehg and Finance Chair Terry Boult about how to plan for your travel and how you will be reimbursed.
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