CVPR Best Paper Awards winners by year

CVPR · Paper award · usually Jun · next expected Jun 2027

Winners

Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a TimeBest paperSource ↗

Native and Compact Structured Latents for 3D GenerationBest student paperSource ↗

NitroGen: An Open Foundation Model for Generalist Gaming AgentsBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in ImagesBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

ChordEdit: One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image EditingBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

VGGT: Visual Geometry Grounded TransformerBest paperSource ↗

Neural Inverse Rendering from Propagating LightBest student paperSource ↗

MegaSaM: Accurate, Fast and Robust Structure and Motion from Casual Dynamic VideosBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Navigation World ModelsBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language ModelsBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

3D Student Splatting and ScoopingBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Generative Multimodal Pretraining with Discrete Diffusion Timestep TokensBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Generative Image DynamicsBest paperSource ↗

Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image GenerationBest paperSource ↗

EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event CameraBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

pixelSplat: 3D Gaussian Splats from Image Pairs for Scalable Generalizable 3D ReconstructionBest paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Mip-Splatting: Alias-free 3D Gaussian SplattingBest student paperSource ↗

BioCLIP: A Vision Foundation Model for the Tree of LifeBest student paperSource ↗

SpiderMatch: 3D Shape Matching with Global Optimality and Geometric ConsistencyBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Image Processing GNN: Breaking Rigidity in Super-ResolutionBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Objects as Volumes: A Stochastic Geometry View of Opaque SolidsBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

Comparing the Decision-Making Mechanisms by Transformers and CNNs via Explanation MethodsBest student paper honorable mentionSource ↗

About this award

Best paper, best student paper and honorable mentions at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference.

Edition	Announced	Winners
2026	Jun 9, 20265 months ago	5
2025	Jun 13, 20251 year ago	7
2024	Jun 19, 20242 years ago	10

The next date is an estimate from the months past editions were announced (Jun); it changes when CVPR announces one.

Date announcedSep 25, 2026Next edition expected Jun 2027 (was Jun 2026).

New winnersSep 25, 2026Editions 2024 to 2026 loaded with 22 winners; the 2026 edition named 5 papers.

Award addedSep 25, 2026Now tracked: Best paper, best student paper and honorable mentions at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference.