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Use when writing or revising a CVPR paper's prose and figures, covering the 8-page budget where figures and tables count against the limit, the page-1 teaser figure convention, benchmark-table craft, claim calibration for a skeptical vision audience, and taking responsibility for tool-assisted text under CVPR's rules.
Passed 24 of 25 test cases with the skill, and 15 of 25 without it.
and 9 more in the full report
9 fixed15 passed either way1 still failing0 broke
Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.
One of 9 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
I am drafting the Method introduction for a CVPR paper. I wrote: 'In recent years, cost volumes have been widely adopted in stereo matching. In this work, a modified cost volume mechanism was implemented by us.' How should this be rephrased to match CVPR sentence-level norms?
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| Recommends active voice with mechanism-first phrasing. | Missed | Passed |
| Advises eliminating generic introductory history sentences. | Passed | Passed |
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CVPR is a visual venue with a brutal budget: eight pages including figures and tables (references overflow free — verified 2026 rule). The papers that survive triage by an overloaded reviewer pool are the ones a reader can evaluate in two passes: a 90-second flip through figures and tables, then a real read. Write both passes on purpose.
Pass one is visual. Reviewers at a 16k-submission venue flip: Figure 1, the tables, the qualitative grid, the ablation. If that flip communicates problem → idea → win, the close read starts friendly. Concretely:
| Section | Typical share | Compression lever |
|---|---|---|
| Title/abstract/teaser | ~1 page | Teaser earns its half page or shrinks |
| Intro | ~1 page | Contributions as 3 bullets, no history lesson |
| Related work | ~0.75 page | Position, don't survey (see cvpr-related-work) |
| Method + pipeline figure | ~2 pages | One figure replacing a page of prose |
| Experiments | ~2.5–3 pages | Grids to supplement; keep the decisive ablation |
| Limitations/conclusion | ~0.25–0.5 page | Honest and short |
Because figures count, figure design is text editing: a two-column pipeline figure costing 0.6 page must delete at least 0.6 page of method prose, or it is negative space. Cut from the flip-reader's perspective — never cut the ablation table to save a paragraph of adjectives.
test cases passed, vs 15 / 25 without
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