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Affected companies have been placed on a list, and organizations within U.S. jurisdiction cannot share technology with companies on that list unless it is otherwise publicly available. These actions have drawn greater attention recently with the addition of Huawei, a major participant at CVPR. The IEEE is currently interpreting these restrictions cautiously and has issued guidelines that discourage their organizations from sharing papers with researchers from companies on the list unless they have already been accepted for publication, which has implications for our peer review process This has caused a lot of confusion as well as understandable outrage in our community and others.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "46843379-7c7c-467a-8e1a-c5807af2d8df", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.45, "w": 0.43, "x": 0.52, "y": 0.35 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The PAMI TC and CVPR have always believed that our meetings are open to all who wish to submit their work or otherwise participate, and we welcome all as friends and colleagues. IEEE's interpretation of these restrictions affects only whether members of listed companies may review papers. Participation in our public meetings is not affected. However, we firmly believe that program chairs and area chairs, as well as editors for our journals, should be able to choose the referee for a paper freely, and we will continue to advocate for this view very strongly.\n\nIt has recently come to the attention of the CVPR19 organizers that the company which provided online registration services has chosen not to permit registration from certain countries, presumably due to their interpretation of US sanctions. We wish to restate that our meetings are open to all who wish to submit their work or otherwise participate, and we welcome all as friends and colleagues. Accordingly, CVPR20 and following CVPR meetings will switch to registration software without such country-based restrictions. 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