Wacv artifact evaluation

WACV Artifact Evaluation

Use this to build the two artifacts a WACV paper needs: a sealed anonymous package for review and a public release after acceptance. WACV's applications framing means the artifact must let a reviewer reproduce a deployed claim, and the two-round model means the artifact must survive a revision. Facts are the WACV 2026/2027 cycles as read on 2026-07-09.

Two artifacts, two audiences

	Anonymous review artifact	Public post-acceptance release
Audience	Double-blind reviewers	The community, via CVF open access + IEEE Xplore paper
Identity	Fully anonymized: no author names, repos, or org strings	De-anonymized; real repo, license, and citation
Contents	Enough to reproduce the headline claims	Full code, weights, and dataset (or access instructions)
Timing	With the submission / supplement	By the camera-ready obligation (see wacv-camera-ready)

Do not ship the review artifact with a link to a named GitHub repo or a project page — that breaks double-blind. Ship the code and a runnable path inside the anonymized package.

Reproduce the claim, not just the metric

For an Applications-track paper the headline is usually a constraint ("runs at 2 W on device D under sub-10-lux"), and an artifact that only reproduces an accuracy number does not support that claim. Include what a reviewer needs to check the systems result:

Applications artifact must let a reviewer:
  1. Run the model and reproduce the headline metric within the stated spread.
  2. Measure (or see logged) the constraint: latency/wattage/memory on the named device.
  3. Re-run at least one baseline under the same constraint, to confirm the comparison.
  4. Do all of this without learning who the authors are.

Datasets and licensing

If a dataset is a claimed contribution, plan its public availability for the release and state the license (and any collection/consent basis for field or human data). In the anonymous artifact, provide the data or a de-identified sample that reproduces the reported rows without revealing the collecting institution. Do not defer the license decision to the last day — an unlicensed dataset is not really released.

Sync across the two rounds

A Revise-and-Resubmit revision often adds an experiment or re-tunes a baseline; the artifact must move with it. Before resubmitting to Round 2, re-run the reproduction on the revised claims and diff the artifact's outputs against the revised paper. A reviewer who finds the Round 2 artifact reproducing the Round 1 numbers will read it as an unfinished revision.

Reverify each cycle

• The camera-ready dataset/code-release obligation and its deadline.
• Anonymity rules for artifacts submitted with review (待核实 size/format caps for 2026).
• Any license or ethics requirements for released data.

Output format

[Artifact stage] anonymous review / public release
[Anonymized] no names/repos/org strings in review artifact: yes/no
[Claim reproducible] headline metric within spread: yes/no
[Constraint reproducible] latency/power/memory checkable on named device: yes/no
[Baseline] at least one baseline re-runnable under the constraint: yes/no
[Dataset] license + public-availability plan set: yes/no
[Round sync] artifact matches revised paper: yes/no