IPOL: About IPOL

About IPOL

IPOL as a journal publishes relevant image processing and image analysis algorithms. The publication is as precise and comprehensive as possible. To this aim, the publication of each algorithm is fourfold and includes:

a web page containing a detailed description of the published algorithm, of its bibliography, along with commented examples and a failure case analysis;
an on line demo site, where the algorithm can be tested on line on data sets uploaded by the users;
a downloadable computer program written in C or C++;
an archive containing extensive on line experiments;
a discussion forum on the algorithm, which actually starts with the referee reports.

The publication of an algorithm by IPOL is different from, and complementary to a classic journal publication.

The restricted goal of IPOL is to make accessible the algorithms in their uttermost explicit form to the scientific community.

IPOL authors need not be the inventors of the algorithms they publish. IPOL authors only are the authors of a particular algorithm implementation, and of its accurate description. IPOL publishes new, but also basic and well-known algorithms. IPOL therefore does not guarantee the novelty of the published algorithms, nor the novelty or validity of their underlying theory. When the submitted algorithm is new, IPOL encourages a parallel submission by the authors to classic journals. A submitted algorithm and code may use several other algorithms and computer programs. In that case, the authors must specify the part which is submitted to IPOL. Only this part will be evaluated.

IPOL as a repository installs image processing workshops. This service is offered to the members of labs supporting IPOL. It is not a publication. Workshops can be temporary and can have restricted access. The workshops are a vector for IPOL labs to exchange freely their algorithms and codes, to favour intensive experiments, and to build up complex image processing chains. Authors wishing to put on line algorithms in the "workshop" form should follow the instructions to authors on implementation. IPOL does not guarantee the scientific or algorithmic validity of the on line workshops.