CVPR 2009 Program

• When are the reviews going to be assigned to me?
  • The Area Chairs and Program Chairs will be assigning reviewers to all submitted papers from Nov 20 - Dec 15, 2008. Papers will be available to you for reviewing by Dec 15, 2008.
• What is the first thing I should do after Dec 15, 2008, after the papers are assigned to me?
  • Go through the assigned papers quickly to check on two things. (1) There is NO obvious CONFLICT of INTEREST with this paper (see the reviewer guidelines if needed), and (2) if you for some reason thing that this paper is REALLY OUTSIDE your set of expertise (remember, we are matching to subject areas you told us about). In either case, please contact the Program Chairs instantly (email addresses will be provided!).
• When are the reviews DUE?
  • All reviews are DUE in the online system by Jan 29, 2009. No exceptions. Please meet this DEADLINE.
• Is there another review form format available for easier editing?
  • No. The review format was designed to make parsing unambiguous. We recommend saving one file for each paper being reviewed. In the file, simply replace <YourAnswer> with “Response to comment question.”
• The text file for offline reviewing seems complicated and hard to edit. Is there a simpler way to edit the file?
  • Yes. Since the format is that of XML, we strongly suggest that you use an XML editor to do the editing. Examples of easy-to-use XML editors include EditiX (Windows, Unix/Linux, Mac OS X) and XML Notepad 2007 (Windows only). See the reviewer instructions, Section 4, for links to download and install these apps. Remember to edit only fields currently filled with the phrase ”REPLACE THIS WITH YOUR ANSWER”.
• Would you explain to me the point of box #5 in the review form? The blurb just before it seems to refer to question #4.
  • Questions #4 and #5 are standard questions for CVPR. This allows the reviewer to indicate confidence in the reviewing the paper. Questions #4 and #5 will NOT be seen by the authors, only the area chairs. This allows the area chairs to “weight” the reviews.For example, you may indicate in #4 “Very Confident” and qualify it in #5 by saying that “I’ve worked in the area for 12 years and am very familiar with the literature.” The area chair will then very likely listen to you much more than someone else who indicated “Confident” and said that “I have worked on this area for the past 3 years and am somewhat familiar with the literature.” #5 allows the reviewer to explain why the item in #4 was chosen (since the degree of confidence is rather subjective).

Working with the area chairs, we have identified over a 1000 reviewer from the computer vision community. Invitations to these reviewers to join the CVPR 2009 Review Committee are about to go out.  Reviewers can see the Guidelines for Reviewing for more information.

CVPR 09 Program Co-Chairs

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