Keep in mind that someone might still your ideas. Right now there are probably a dozen people preparing capsules related papers for CVPR (due in 2 weeks) so if one of them comes across your paper there’s a temptation.
Thank you for saying that. Sometimes I forget how petty and small people can be, especially when they are under pressure, academic and otherwise.
I'll take a look at submitting it to CVPR.
In the meantime, please circulate my work. It's on record, online. The more people who are aware that others have seen it, the less likely someone will try to plagiarize it.
I'm not under any kind of academic pressure, so I don't need citations, conference slots, etc. But I do deserve credit for this, don't you think?
PS. And now that you mention it, a couple of people to whom I reached out mentioned they were under deadline over the next two weeks.
FYI, I reached out to two of those individuals (one is a CVPR reviewer, it turns out) and both suggested I first upload this to arXiv, so I did that yesterday. The paper is now stamped with a date, on the queue for site-wide notification. Thank you again for your feedback!
Let me know when you have CIFAR-10 results, I will try to match your accuracy using the same number of parameters in a regular convnet. I actually implemented the original, vector based capsnet a while ago: https://github.com/michaelklachko/CapsNet but I haven't really explored it. Your success on CIFAR-10 would definitely provide motivation for me to do so.