cvpr-topic-selection
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CVPR or should route elsewhere, covering what counts as a vision contribution at the field's flagship, fit tests for methods, datasets, and application papers, realistic odds at 25% acceptance and 16k submissions, and routing to ICCV, ECCV, WACV, 3DV, NeurIPS, or a journal.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cvpr-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# CVPR Topic Selection CVPR is the largest venue in computer vision and one of the largest in all of science — 16,092 reviewed submissions and 4,090 acceptances in 2026. Size cuts both ways: almost any vision-adjacent topic has a reviewer pool there, and almost any weakness has a reviewer who has seen it a hundred times. This skill decides *whether* to feed the machine before other skills decide *how*. ## The core question Strip the engineering and ask: **is the contribution a claim about visual data or visual computation?** CVPR's 2026 program clustered exactly there — the largest areas were image/video synthesis and generation; vision+language and reasoning; multimodal learning; 3D from multi-view and sensors; and medical/biological vision (official program announcement). Contributions where vision is merely the demo domain — a generic optimizer tested on ImageNet, an ML theory result with a CIFAR table — historically route better to NeurIPS/ICML, where the reviewer pool evaluates the actual claim. ## Fit tests by contribution type | You have… | CVPR-shaped if… | Warning sign | |---|---|---| | A method/architecture | It solves a visual mechanism (geometry, temporal, pixels-to-str
- The core question
- Fit tests by contribution type
- The honesty checklist before committing a semester
- Routing map
- Three worked verdicts (fictional projects)
- Scale realism
- Main conference vs. CVPR workshops
- Reverify each cycle
- Output format
What does the cvpr-topic-selection skill do?
Use when deciding whether a project belongs at CVPR or should route elsewhere, covering what counts as a vision contribution at the field's flagship, fit tests for methods, datasets, and application papers, realistic odds at 25% acceptance and 16k submissions, and routing to ICCV, ECCV, WACV, 3DV, NeurIPS, or a journal.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill cvpr-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.