CV Researcher Asks: With Thousands of Papers a Year, How Much Novelty Is Left?

ATHii-127 · reddit · 2026-10-01

A computer vision researcher reports that 'novelty' concerns recur across years of submissions to NeurIPS, ICLR and CVPR. Given thousands of top-conference papers annually, they question how much genuinely new territory remains and seek advice on framing contributions, separating meaningful incremental progress from insufficiently novel work, and what reviewers actually look for.

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