1 - Submission and Web Page

Starting with an online form, a submission to IPOL consists of a web page in the IPOL style:

describing the submitted algorithms accurately and giving the references of printed publications or preprints explaining the algorithm;
a short complexity analysis;
commented examples of images and results as they would appear in the online demo;
a short description of the demo workflow specifying the format of uploaded material and the user's parameters.

Until the evaluation, this web page is not made publicly available. After the opening of an IPOL webpage, authors have one month to submit a complete web page to the journal. After this delay, the web page can be cancelled. The authors also commit themselves to furnish a detailed algorithm and commented C or C++ code for the online demo within three months after conditional acceptation.

Once this page is complete, the authors ask (by e-mail) to start the evaluation process.

2 - Evaluation and Online Demo

The referees check the references and give an opinion on the scientific and practical relevance of the algorithm. They also assess the feasibility of the online demo.

In case of positive answer, the online demo is conditionally accepted and the web page becomes public.

After the codes have been provided by the authors, an online demo is installed as IPOL workshop with the mention "workshop". This online demo is public.

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3 - Validation and Publication

When they are satisfied with the online demo, the authors ask for a validation of their work.

Two (non-anonymous) referees are named to revise carefully the code and the algorithm description. All members of the editorial board are invited to test the online demo.

The role of the non-anonymous referees is to guarantee by intelligent testing and by a careful examination that the submitted code coincides with its algorithm description, and that the experimental results and failure case analysis proposed by the authors are faithful and comprehensive. This guaranty is limited to the main algorithm submitted and described on the submitted web page. It does not cover other secondary algorithms used in the demo.

Once a online publication has been accepted, the web pages are locked and bear the "accepted" mention with bibliographic meta-data. A forum is added to these pages for feedback and comments, starting with the referees final reports.

All the communication between authors, editor and referees is handled by e-mail. These messages must contain [IPOL] and the algorithm identifier in their subject. The algorithm identifier is the last part of the algorithm web page address:
lmps_retinex_poisson_equation for http://www.ipol.im/pub/algo/lmps retinex poisson equation/.