ECCV Workflow

Use this as the project-management view of an ECCV effort. ECCV happens only in even years, run by ECVA with chairs rotating per edition and no APC — costs are registration and travel; proceedings are Springer LNCS with free ECVA mirrors. The scarce resource is not money but calendar: each decision about ECCV is implicitly a decision about CVPR and ICCV too.

Where the 2026 cycle stands (as of 2026-07-08)

Accepted teams are in the release-runway phase (eccv-camera-ready, eccv-artifact-evaluation). Rejected teams are at the retargeting fork below with June-dated reviews in hand.

The retargeting triangle from the ECCV seat

The vision big three interleave so that from any ECCV event there is a next move within roughly five months:

ECCV decision (Jun, even yr) --reject--> CVPR deadline (Nov, same yr)
CVPR decision (Feb/Mar, odd yr) --reject--> ICCV deadline (Mar, odd yr)  [tight!]
ICCV decision (Jun/Jul, odd yr) --reject--> CVPR deadline (Nov, odd yr)
CVPR decision (Feb, even yr) --reject--> ECCV deadline (Mar, even yr)   [tight!]

The two "tight" hops are near-simultaneous decision/deadline pairs — teams that anticipate them prepare the resubmission before the decision. Off the triangle: BMVC (~spring deadline) and WACV (~summer) absorb solid work that should not wait; ACCV shares the even-year autumn; IJCV/TPAMI take matured, extended versions. For a paper rejected from ECCV 2026 in June, the default path is a reviews-driven revision into CVPR's November 2026 deadline.

Backward plan for ECCV 2028

All 2028 process details (host city, exact dates, page rules, platform) are unannounced — 待核实 at eccv.ecva.net when posted. Plan against the stable shape (registration late Feb, paper early Mar, conference early autumn):

• Mar–Sep 2027: project selection; note that ICCV 2027's March deadline competes for the same results — decide which venue gets the work early.
• Oct–Dec 2027: core method working; falsifier experiment done (eccv-experiments); CVPR 2028's November deadline is the explicit fork.
• Jan 2028: full experimental program; draft in the (new) author kit.
• Feb 2028: internal review, anonymity sweep, registration step done the week it opens.
• Early Mar 2028: paper freeze; supplement week for packaging only.

Roles worth naming on an ECCV team

• Deadline owner: tracks the CET clock and the three-step chain.
• Reviewer-duty owner: tracks every co-author's assignments, because 2026-style enforcement couples them to the paper's survival.
• Release owner: runs the June→September artifact runway.
• Conference owner: registration (a Springer publication precondition in 2026), Schengen visas, poster/talk logistics for Malmö-like venues.

Output format

[Cycle position] pre-2028 planning / 2026 release-runway / 2026 retargeting
[Next hard date] <milestone, date, clock (CET vs AoE), source>
[Triangle decision] <hold for ECCV / route to CVPR-ICCV-BMVC-WACV / journal>
[Role map] <deadline / reviewer-duty / release / conference -> owner>
[Two-year risk] <what makes this work stale by the next even year>