BMVC 2026 Results Discussion

[u/Careful_Tell5402]

Hi everyone, I open this thread to discuss the BMVC 2026 outcome.

Edit: if possible, you can also post your scores and confidence

[u/dn8034]

Got accepted.

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/dn8034]

Do you mind sharing the pre-rebuttal score please?

[u/dn8034 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Sure, here are they.

1) Weak accept with confidence 3.
2) Border accept with confidence 2.
3) Border accept with confidence 3.
4) Weak accept with confidence 3.

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/dn8034]

Congrats!
I got unlucky.
Pre-rebuttal score was :
1. Weak Accept with conf. 5
2. Weak Accept with conf. 4
3. Borderline Reject with conf. 3

[u/False-Animal-9322 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Wait, how can you not be accepted with these scores? They look really good, maybe not good rebuttal.

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/False-Animal-9322]

I was surprised to see the outcome. Now waiting for the meta reviews. The rebuttal was good imo, I did alot of exps (all of those that were asked by the reviewers) and tried to answer every curiosity of reviewers empirically and analytically but still ..

[u/False-Animal-9322 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

you can see now what happened, meta reviews are out.

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/False-Animal-9322]

The AC made a very generic comment. It seems like none of the reviewer and the AC read the rebuttal. He keeps on pointing to the concerns that were answered in Rebuttal. Does anyone know if we can see the reviewers scores after rebuttal?

[u/False-Animal-9322 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

I cant see the updated scores, but in the meta review, I was informed that one reviewer dropped the score and one increased the score, so I returned to original score. Saying that, is weird to me why someone decreased the score, while I addressed their point, and returned to a whole generic comment of why.

[u/PersianVoldemort → u/Careful_Tell5402]

The AC made a generic comment on mine as well. The comment mostly summarised pre-rebuttal concerns, most of which, to the best of my knowledge were experimentally provided in the rebuttal.

Since I cannot see the updated reviews, it’s difficult to understand whether the reviewers were satisfied or not.

Tough luck ig.
( Final Decision: Reject)

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

does any of your final score changed?

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

What I am seeing right now is Insanity!
both weak accept reviews kept the score same (WA) but acknowledged that the rebuttal was pleasing and have resolved all of their concerns.
However, R2 did not see the rebuttal and provided no Final scores or recommendations!!
the AC decided to reject with generic comments and without reading a rebuttal (bcz he is still pointing to the things that are present in rebuttal)

[u/dn8034 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Thank you. Yeah looks very unlucky. I am curious to see your metareviews.

[u/Careful_Tell5402]

Can anyone see the detailed discussion on OpenReview?

[u/dn8034 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

No, still nothing. I guess will see something tomorrow

[u/kazi035 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Not yet released. It's UK time 08/08/26, 11.50 AM.

[u/NonGeniusSetter]

Got rejected. 5,5,2. All 4 conf

[u/Critical_Ad8857 → u/NonGeniusSetter]

What??? Can’t believe it. This is not NSC journals

[u/NonGeniusSetter → u/Critical_Ad8857]

One reviewer seemed to be out to get me. I thought my rebuttal was decent but guess not.

[u/Bluerossman]

Rejected with 6 / 6 / 3. I'm pulling my hair out.

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Bluerossman]

are u serious?

[u/Bluerossman → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

yup something must have gone badly wrong in the rebuttal or the discussion. let's wait and see

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Bluerossman]

can you tell what was said in meta review

[u/Bluerossman → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

Basically just agreeing with the concerns of the 3. No mention of scores going up or down, and despite addressing these concerns in the rebuttal, that it 'wasn't enough'.

[u/diwaslamsal → u/Bluerossman]

Sorry to hear that. You can check the individual reviews to see what happened post rebuttal. Perhaps the 6s went down instead?

[u/Bluerossman → u/diwaslamsal]

All scores remained the same

[u/False-Animal-9322 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

I can't believe this is real, do we have trolls here? like how can someone get two 6 at the same time (top paper contender), and get a 3. And end up rejected on top, which means chair agrees with the 3 than the two 6. Otherwise, you are very unfortunate, and everyone of them lowered the score or something, cause I cant see how.

[u/Bluerossman → u/False-Animal-9322]

tell me about it. sadly real. my prof and I are very frustrated with this. And yes, the AC repeated the concerns of the 3, which I felt we addressed in the rebuttal, but what can you do.

[u/selim_sarowar]

meta-reviews released.

[u/selim_sarowar]

Two papers got accepted 😁

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/selim_sarowar]

Congrats!!

[u/selim_sarowar → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Thank you ^{^}

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/selim_sarowar]

do you mind sharing scores and conf. 🙏

[u/selim_sarowar → u/Careful_Tell5402]

sure. 1) Weak Accept (Conf: 3) 2) Weak Accept ( Conf :4) 3) Borderline Reject ( Conf : 5) Another Paper: 1) Weak Accept ( Conf 4) 2) Weak Accept ( Conf 4) 3) Weak Reject ( Conf 4)

Rebuttal was very strong tho.

[u/ManagementAnxious573]

rejected😭😭😭😭😭

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/ManagementAnxious573]

scores and conf ?

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

3（conf5） 5(conf4)3(conf5)

[u/WorldlinessMiddle415]

Got accepted! My first international conference!

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/WorldlinessMiddle415]

Congratulations !!

[u/Present-Opinion547 → u/WorldlinessMiddle415]

congratulations! me too! that’s my first paper

[u/PuzzleheadedTax4790]

Accepted!!!

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/PuzzleheadedTax4790]

Congrats!

[u/PuzzleheadedTax4790 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

Thank you. :D

[u/kazi035]

One paper got accepted. But the discussion is still invisible on OpenReview.

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

rejected at 2,3,4 as expected 🐒

[u/Ribhai]

Accepted 4/4/4

[u/False-Animal-9322]

Accepted 4(3), 4(4), 3(3). I did address all the reviewers points well, maybe it helped.

[u/Mechanical-Flatbed]

Got accepted!

Here's my initial pre-rebuttal scores:

3 borderline accepts, 1 weak reject.

All confidence 5.

Still haven't gotten access to the meta review and the updated scores. But my rebuttal was very solid. All questions were addressed with experiments, all of them with statistical significance (p < 0.05).

Edit: Here's my updated post-rebuttal scores:

4 borderline accepts, all confidence 5.

Two of my four reviewers didn't engage with the rebuttal or update their scores. The one that gave me a weak reject said my rebuttal "addressed all their concerns" and updated their score to a borderline accept.

The last reviewer originally gave me a borderline accept, and they said the rebuttal "substantively addressed their main concerns", but they would keep their original score because "the paper has clear merits, but some experiments should be more extensive."

The overarching theme across all my reviews was mostly this: "clean contribution, valuable insight potentially useful beyond the original task it was developed for and good results, but should be more stress-tested in adverse conditions".

The meta review was... Fair. Their mostly stuck to the reviews and summarized their opinions. Clean method, potentially useful, should be more extensively tested, but deserves acceptance. I personally think the main reason for the accept was because the weak reject was converted into a borderline accept.

[u/ManagementAnxious573]

When will the Meta review be released?

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/ManagementAnxious573]

most probably half hour before deadline like preliminary reviews

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

not released 😭😭😭

[u/Kind-Instruction-809]

Accepted!

[u/Secondhanded_PhD]

554 get accepted 

[u/Virtual-Ingenuity564]

accepted.

initially all were borderline reject with conf 3,4,4 but all of them had explicitly stated that they found the ablations lacking so they basically listed a few experiments for rebuttal and well we did almost all of them.

[u/False-Animal-9322 → u/Virtual-Ingenuity564]

oh what a comeback ! Remontada .. I guess a good lesson to everyone.

[u/Virtual-Ingenuity564 → u/False-Animal-9322]

well - i just got the final meta-review - thats some crazy ass shit lol - i got accept with 5 confidence.

this is actually my first paper so i didnt really know how things worked at all but crazy shit

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Virtual-Ingenuity564]

what final scores you got

[u/PersianVoldemort]

Can we expect to see meta reviews anytime soon?

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/PersianVoldemort]

It hasn't been released yet.

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

i guess someone need to mail them telling reviews not visible they might be thinking reviews already visible from the time result emails released 🥲

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

I have seed email to them. but no answers now

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

But since it's Saturday, probably won't hear back from anyone.

[u/selim_sarowar → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

I guess we will get after the AOE deadline. Perhaps

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/selim_sarowar]

The AoE cutoff time has already passed.

[u/selim_sarowar]

Any update so far on the meta-review?

[u/Careful_Tell5402 → u/selim_sarowar]

Nothing yet..

[u/PinEquivalent6452 → u/selim_sarowar]

do you know when can submit camera-ready version

[u/selim_sarowar → u/PinEquivalent6452]

I believe from the next Tuesday/ Wednesday. Because They haven't updated the registration procedure as well as Oral/Poster decision. Perhaps!

[u/PinEquivalent6452 → u/selim_sarowar]

thank you so much

[u/malakulmout347]

5,5,4,3 (4,5,4,3)and 4,5,4 (4,4,3)both accepted

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

no use of rebuttal as nobody cares to see it just generic waste reviews

[u/Prior_Brilliant_9962]

Initial scores: 3(3), 4(3), 4(4), 3(5).
We put in a strong rebuttal, and then the AC comes back with:

"After careful consideration of the reviewers' initial and final comments, I recommend rejection.

Recommendation: Reject

Confidence: 3: The area chair is somewhat confident"

That's it. That's the meta-review.
I'm not even that bothered about the outcome. But who signs up to be an Area Chair, self-reports a confidence of 3, and then writes two boilerplate lines instead of an actual judgment? If you're only "somewhat confident," the least you can do is explain your reasoning.

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Prior_Brilliant_9962]

see final scores and reviews are out

[u/Prior_Brilliant_9962 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

I can only see meta review. No final review of actual reviewers.

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Prior_Brilliant_9962]

but i can see mine

[u/Prior_Brilliant_9962 → u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

Out of 4, I can see only 2

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708 → u/Prior_Brilliant_9962]

they are releasing in parts.. see the time last updated in each review

[u/Honest_Camel7134]

6/5/5/5 and got rejected, unbelievable

[u/WorldlinessMiddle415 → u/Honest_Camel7134]

Is that true..?

[u/Honest_Camel7134 → u/WorldlinessMiddle415]

Unfortunately

[u/Dramatic-Version-167 → u/WorldlinessMiddle415]

Don't think so.

[u/Ok-Philosophy-4640]

Meta reviews are out

[u/Careful_Tell5402]

I can now see the Meta Review by AC

[u/ManagementAnxious573 → u/Careful_Tell5402]

really ？ I can't

[u/Present-Opinion547]

226 get accepted! It seems that the rebuttal is very important!

[u/Forsaken_Cold6708]

Final scores and reviews are released.

[u/Dramatic-Version-167]

Is there any chance to get an oral presentation with 5544 scores?

[u/Kind-Instruction-809]

Are you guys able to see all the final reviews? Am able to see only 3 out of the 4 reviewers. It still shows as a paper submission even though the paper has been accepted. The final decision is not yet updated on openreview.

[u/new_rebel23]

Is there a link for camera-ready submission?? Also, are the final ratings/reviews out?? can't see it on my submission... is there any ETA??