CVPR 2026 submissions grew 23.7% to a record 16,092 papers with 4,071 accepted
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CVPR 2026 logged 16,092 submissions, a 23.7 percent jump that produced 4,071 accepted papers while the reviewer roster doubled to 25,149 people drawn from 97 countries. The same opening slides also tallied 44,011 authors and 909 area chairs, confirming the upward trend that has run for years and showing that multimodal and related AI topics now occupy a larger slice of the program.
Review capacity scaled without apparent strain
Doubling the reviewer count in one year kept the acceptance rate near 25 percent even though thousands more papers arrived. Whether that expansion preserved review depth or simply spread the same workload across more people is not spelled out in the reported numbers.
Two countries still dominate the contributor map
China led in authors and reviewers while the United States supplied the largest share of area chairs. How smaller research communities outside these hubs will sustain participation as submission volume keeps rising remains an open variable.