My experience at CVPR 2026

I attended CVPR 2026 in Denver, CO – my second machine learning conference after ICML in 2023, and my second conference of the year after JMM 2026 in Washington, DC (where I was an invited speaker). I wanted to write about that experience. That ship has sailed, but I thought I’d write about this one! With ICCV and ECCV, CVPR is considered one of the top three venues for computer vision research. This year there were 16,000+ paper submissions, 4089 accepted papers, and 10,000+ attendees, so there’s a lot going on at these conferences. My original research background is not in machine learning and I do not claim expertise in frontier AI/ML research, as excited as I get being surrounded by this stuff (especially by the mathematics of it). So this is just my perspective, but I’m always happy to receive feedback and corrections if something is misstated or misrepresented (email me!).