At this year's ICCV 2025, the number of paper submissions reached an astonishing 11,152, breaking historical records. After the review results were announced, some people shared their high scores, while others expressed frustration with the review comments. Facing such a massive submission scale, how does the conference ensure review quality?
ICCV 2025 review results have been announced!
The number of paper submissions for this ICCV conference has reached a historical high. According to the official announcement, a total of 11,152 valid submissions were received this year, far exceeding the scale of previous conferences.
ICCV 2023 top conference received 8,088 submissions
By the review deadline, all 11,152 valid submitted papers have received at least 3 review opinions.
Authors can submit rebuttals before 11:59 PM Hawaii time on May 16th, and ICCV 2025 will announce the final acceptance decision on June 25th.
According to the statistics released by Paper Copilot, the paper scoring curve has been made public.
The scoring meanings are as follows:
1: Reject
2: Weak Reject
3: Marginal Reject
4: Marginal Accept
5: Weak Accept
6: Accept
So far, about 36% of people scored above 3.67, with only 4% scoring above 4.0. Scores between 3.67 and 4.0 have approximately a 50%-70% chance of acceptance.
As one of the top three computer vision conferences, ICCV is held every two years and will be hosted in Honolulu, Hawaii from October 19th to 23rd this year.
Currently, many people have shared their review results.
Review Results Widely Criticized Online
Due to the somewhat unusual timing of review comments, there aren't many discussions yet.
Netizens said they mostly see negative comments, attacks, and criticisms.
Netizens complained: Is this something a human could write?
"I wouldn't even say it's written by GPT, because GPT is much smarter than this person. This can only be called quasi-human."
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Michael Black, the director of the Max Planck Institute, strongly agrees and states that he will modify the requirements to mandate that any author who has published more than 3 papers in CVPR/ICCV/ECCV must participate in the review.
Some authors are anxious about their papers being rejected due to missing the review deadline.
ICCV officially announced the final results, with 97.18% of reviews submitted on time, and only 95 reviewers missing the deadline.
Prohibiting LLM Reviews
Additionally, ICCV 2025 explicitly prohibits the use of large language models (such as ChatGPT) during the review process to ensure the originality and authenticity of review opinions.
Reviewers must provide genuine comments, being responsible to the paper authors, and online chatbots collect conversation histories to improve their models.
Therefore, using them during the review process will violate ICCV's confidentiality policy.
Alex from UC San Diego said that after completing this year's ICCV review, he was completely exhausted.
Comments section indicates similar feelings, noting an overall decline in paper quality.
[The rest of the translation follows the same professional and accurate approach, maintaining the original meaning and tone while translating to English.]AC is so busy that they can only copy and paste feedback, and are too lazy to read the original review. This bureaucratic response has stripped the peer review of its soul.
This controversy at ICCV 2025 reminds us:
The quality of a review is not in its length, but in its insight; the meaning of a review is not in its form, but in dialogue.
References:
https://x.com/papercopilot/status/1920964042123858217
https://iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/2025/ReviewerGuidelines
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1kgemvp/d_iccv_2025_review_and_score_discussion_thread/
https://papercopilot.com/statistics/iccv-statistics/
https://akmaier.substack.com/p/iccv-reviews-2025-where-scripts-dont?r=56pbmv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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