General Requirements – Regular Paper

• Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 8 pages (including references).
• Each paper will go through a double-blind peer review.
• It is a condition of publication that each accepted paper is presented in person at the conference.
• Accepted papers will need to have a poster to be displayed on the day of their presentation.
• Papers accepted as oral will be allocated a 15-minute oral session.
• Papers must be submitted in final, publishable form before the submission deadline.
• None of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper.
• The contents of submitted papers must not have been previously published or accepted for publication in substantially similar form.
• The contents of submitted papers must not significantly overlap with the content of any paper currently under review or that will be submitted during the DICTA 2020 review period to another conference, a workshop or journal.
• The DICTA 2020 Committee retains the right to exclude any paper.
• Failure to register before the given deadline will result in withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program.
• Any accepted paper that is not presented at the conference will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore.

General Requirements – Short Paper

• Authors are invited to submit papers of up to 2 pages (excluding references).
• Each paper will go through light peer review.
• It is a condition of publication that each accepted paper is presented in person at the conference.
• Papers accepted will be allocated to a poster session.
• Papers must be submitted in final, publishable form before the submission deadline.
• Please ensure your paper is blind (none of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper).
• The contents of submitted papers could have been previously published or accepted for publication.
• The DICTA 2020 Committee retains the right to exclude any paper.
• Failure to register before the given deadline will result in withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program.
• Any accepted paper that is not presented at the conference will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore.

Formatting the Regular Paper

• Submitted papers may be up to 8 pages in length.
• Please ensure your paper is blind (none of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper).

Prepare your submission using the IEEE manuscript template:

• Windows users can download either Microsoft Word or Latex templates from the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings page.
• Unix users can download the LaTeX template from the IEEE Manuscript Template LaTeX Archive . Please note the LaTeX Bibliography Files may also be required.
• Please use the Microsoft Word A4 template or the LaTeX template in conference A4 mode (Start with the conference template file bare_conf.tex and configure the output document with the line \documentclass[conference,a4paper]{IEEEtran} ).

Formatting the Short Paper

• Submitted papers may be up to 2 pages in length.
• Please ensure your paper is blind (none of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper).

Prepare your submission using the IEEE manuscript template:

• Windows users can download either Microsoft Word or Latex templates from the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
• Unix users can download the LaTeX template from the IEEE Manuscript Template LaTeX Archive. Please note the LaTeX Bibliography Files may also be required.
• Please use the Microsoft Word A4 template or the LaTeX template in conference A4 mode (Start with the conference template file bare_conf.tex and configure the output document with the line \documentclass[conference,a4paper]{IEEEtran} ).

How to Submit

All submissions must be made electronically as a PDF file using the portal above.

The submitted PDF file must adhere to the following constraints:

1. Adobe document protection or document security must be disabled,

2. the document must be in first-page-first order, and

3. all fonts must be embedded in the PDF file.

When preparing the paper using LaTeX, it is preferable to use scalable fonts such as Type I, Computer Modern. PDF files with Postscript Type 3 fonts are highly discouraged. PDF and PostScript files utilizing Type 3 fonts are typically produced by the LaTeX system and are lower-resolution bitmapped versions of the letters and figures. It is possible to perform a few simple changes to the configuration or command-line to produce files that use PostScript Type 1 fonts, which are a vector representation of the letters and figures. An excellent set of instructions can be found at: Creating quality Adobe PDF files from TeX with DVIPS.

For most installations of LaTeX, you can cause dvips to output Type 1 fonts instead of Type 3 fonts by including the -Ppdf option to dvips. The resulting Postscript file will reference the Type 1 Computer Modern fonts, rather than embedding the bitmapped Type 3 versions, which cause problems with printers. Some LaTeX installations also include pdflatex, which produces acceptable PDF files as well.

File Size Limit

Authors will be permitted to submit a document file up to 5 MB (megabytes) in size. To request an exception, contact the Program Chairs.

Online Review Process

Your submitted paper will be visually inspected by a member of the technical program committee to assure that the document is readable and meets all formatting requirements.

If errors are detected in your submitted file, you will be contacted to resolve the issue. If your paper passes inspection, it will be entered into the review process.

At least two members of the technical program committee will review each submitted paper and rate it according to quality, relevance, and correctness. The conference technical committee will use these reviews to determine which papers will be accepted for presentation in the conference.

Notification of Acceptance

Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by email as close as possible to the published author notification date.

The notification email will include comments from the reviewers. The short amount of time between paper acceptance decisions and the beginning of the publication process does not allow for a two-way discourse between the authors and the reviewers of a paper.

Prepare the Final Paper

Manuscript submission time is 17 July for Regular Papers and 14 August for short Papers

The final paper submission deadline is 11 September 2020.

To prepare the final paper:

• Undo steps that were taken to anonymise your paper for the blind review process. Please ensure the author names and affiliations have been added to your paper, acknowledgements and citations are reinstated, and redactions removed.
• Make any minor revisions to the accepted paper based on the comments from the reviewers. In general, changes should be limited to areas in which improvement was recommended by the reviewers.
• Changes to the title and author list are not allowed except for extraordinary circumstances, e.g., if the reviewers and program chairs suggested changes to the title.
• Ensure your paper length is within the 8-page limit.
• Strictly adhere to the formatting guidelines, i.e. prepare your submission using the IEEE manuscript templates (see above)

Electronic Paper Submission

Once you have the final version of the accepted paper ready, gather the following information before entering the submission system:

• Paper title
• Affiliation, email address, and mailing address for each author
• Text file containing paper abstract text, in ASCII text format (for copying and pasting into web page form)

To submit your document and author information, click on the following link:

https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/dicta20.html

After you submit this information, the system will display a page with the data that you entered so that you may verify its accuracy.

If you need to change the data to fix a mistake, you may use the back button on your browser to return to the information entry form.

Once you approve of the data that you have entered, you may choose your document file for upload at the bottom of the verification page.

When you click on the button labelled ‘Continue’ at the bottom of this page, the page will check the filename extension to make sure it matches the submission criteria, then your browser will upload your file to our server. Depending on the size of your file and your internet connection speed, this upload may take a few minutes.

At the end of a successful upload, you will see a confirmation page displaying the paper number that was assigned to you, and an email message will be sent to the corresponding authors’ email addresses to confirm that the file has been uploaded.

Audiovisual Equipment

Each session room will be equipped for the presentation of PowerPoint slides and include a data projector, computer with external speakers, lectern and microphone.

Copyright for Web Publication

If you plan to publish a copy of an accepted paper on the internet, you MUST display the following IEEE copyright notice on the first page that displays IEEE published (and copyrighted) material:

“Copyright 2019 IEEE. Published in the Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications, 2020 (DICTA 2020), 30 November – 2 December 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works, must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager, Copyrights and Permissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, USA. Telephone: + Intl. 908-562-3966.”

If you post an electronic version of an accepted paper, you must provide the IEEE with the electronic address (URL, FTP address, etc.) of the posting.