Computer Vision News - July 2020

"Due to the increasing need for reviewers, younger and younger researchers are being asked to contribute with reviews, almost before they have a chance to receive a review for their own paper." Tutorial 48 Tutorial - How toWrite a Good Review Laura Leal-Taixé and Torsten Sattler received the reviews for the papers they had submitted. It had become almost a tradition to discuss the reviews, trying always to see the bright sight and think about ways to improve the papers. Nonetheless, these past years, the review quality had really gone down. “This is probably due to the high number of submissions: can you imagine finding 15,000 reviewers for each conference?” -- they thought. Due to the increasing need for reviewers, younger and younger researchers are being asked to contribute with reviews, almost before they have a chance to receive a review for their own paper. Writing a review seems simple enough at first glance, just fill out the form and submit it on time. But how do you best communicate your concerns to the authors in a way that allows them to address them in the rebuttal? How do you best communicate your views to the Area Chair handling the paper? What happens with your reviews anyways? Turns out that the review by Laura Leal-Taixé and Torsten Sattler Taken during the virtual tutorial at CVPR 2020. From left to right and top to bottom, Laura Leal-Taixé, Andrew Fitzgibbon, Greg Mori, Jordi Pont-Tuset, Konrad Schindler, Torsten Sattler, Michael Goesele, Vittorio Ferrari, Fatma Güney, Richard Szeliski and Bill Freeman. Best of CVPR 2020