Welcome to the 32 nd meeting of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2019) at Long Beach, CA. CVPR continues to be one of the best venues for researchers in our community to present their most exciting advances in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, robotics, and artificial intelligence. With oral and poster presentations, tutorials, workshops, demos, an ever-growing number of exhibitions, and numerous social events, this is a week that

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... ryone will enjoy. The co-location with ICML 2019 this year brings opportunity for more exchanges between the communities. Accelerating a multi-year trend, CVPR continued its rapid growth with a record number of 5165 submissions. After three months' diligent work from the 132 area chairs and 2887 reviewers, including those reviewers who kindly helped in the last minutes serving as emergency reviewers, 1300 papers were accepted, yielding 1294 papers in the final program after a few withdrawals. Each paper received at least 3 full reviews, and the acceptance decisions were made within AC triplets in consultation with larger conflict-free panels. The oral/poster decision was made within panels of 12-15 ACs. Following the best practice of our community, the program chairs did not place any restrictions on acceptance. The final acceptance rate is 25.1%, consistent with the high standard of past CVPR conferences. Out of these 1294 papers, 288 are selected for oral presentations, and all papers have poster presentations. This year, the oral presentations are short, 6 minutes each including transition/questions, so that we may accommodate more oral presentations. Per PAMI-TC policy, program chairs did not submit papers, which allowed them to be free of conflict in the paper review process. To accommodate the growing number of papers and attendees while maintaining the three-day length of the conference, we run oral sessions in three parallel tracks and devote the entire technical program to accepted papers. We would like to thank everyone involved in making CVPR 2019 a success. This includes the organizing committee, the area chairs, the reviewers, authors, demo session participants, donors, exhibitors, and everyone else without whom this meeting would not be possible. The program chairs particularly thank a few unsung heroes that helped us tremendously: Eric Mortensen for mentoring the publication chairs and managing camera-ready and program efforts; Ming-Ming Cheng for quickly updating the website; Hao Su for working overtime as both area chair and AC meeting chair; Walter Scheirer for managing finances and serving as the true memory of the organization process; and the Microsoft CMT support team for the tremendous help with prompt responses. We also thank Nicole Finn, Liz Ryan, and C to C Events for their organization of the logistics of the conference. Last but not least, we thank all of you for attending CVPR and making it one of the top venues for computer vision research in the world.