IPOL - SUBMISSION PROCESS

Nicolas Limare — MISS meeting

2010/04/07

IPOL

IPOL ( Image Processing On Line ) is

an online environment
for image processing

scientific journal
+ code repository
+ educational resource
+ collective workshop

http://www.ipol.im/

content

more content

+demo archive
+forum
+bibliographic meta-data

3 steps

last refinement of the process:

submission
evaluation
validation

submission

via an online form

identifier can't be changed, a-z0-9_
short description 1 sentence, 10~20 words
authors name, email, web, etc.
copyright/license selected option

copyright/license

web text/images

© IPOL + credit to authors
open license with a obligation to cite using standardized meta-data (CC-BY-NC-SA + BibTeX/DOI)

code : 3 option

1: © IPOL attribution + references to authors
2: or © IPOL and authors (draft agreement)
3: or © authors with an allowed license

web edition

edition interface : https://edit.ipol.im/

login/password identification
internal online documentation
simplified wiki syntax, possible (partial) conversion from LaTeX
structure-oriented, not visual-oriented, the layout depends on the browser
the web page is not public during the first step

content

precise and exhaustive algorithmic description
mathematical description + references to articles/preprints
commented examples

+ for the demo

short description of the demo: intended interaction and visualization

/!\ privacy

do not use a picture of a person without their agreement

even if you found it online
easy solution : photograph yourself
you can blur/hide the faces
or we have special agreement (paper) forms

/!\ image copyright

only publish online images with permissions

your personal images,
or images without copyright or an expired copyright,
or with a permission of the author

default rule: the author holds all the use rights

do not reuse data from an article without checking

free images

http://search.creativecommons.org/

check "right to modify"
keep the URL for reference

"standard" images:
see http://sipi.usc.edu/database/ (not always free)

evaluation

anonymous referees examine

scientific and practical interest of the proposed works
feasibility of the demo

after approval

the web page becomes public, in the "workshops" category
the authors must provide an implementation within 3 months

implementation

the code must be correct, neutral, documented and full

correct : normalized C/C++, compilation -Wall -Wextra -Werror
neutral : no specific extensions, 32/64bits, standard and portables libraries libtiff, libpng, libfftw3, clapack, zlib (...)
documented : 1/8 ratio, detail everything not obvious, link math description and implementation, README.txt for compilation and usage
full : the source code must produce an executable command-line program

code structure

to help review and reusability:

split the code components in different files: main(), input/output, pre/post processing, visualization, and
a separate file dedicated to the algorithm only
provide front-end functions to call the algorithm, with documentation and examples

IPOL will gradually propose some reusable components for auxiliary tasks like input/output

implementation authors

each source code file has the author(s) information, for traceability
the source code authors may not be co-authors of the IPOL publication
the authors of non-trivial recycled source code parts must be properly cited

demo

full specification of the demo

all the required tools
all their options
everything displayed by the demo

a demo can involve multiple web pages and/or multiple programs; the only exchange medium between programs or between successive pages is data files

complex demo

validation

non anonymous referees check

by intelligent testing, that the results and examples provided by the authors are correct and faithful
by a careful examination of the source code, that it exactly implements the algorithm

this examination only covers the main algorithm of the source code

post-validation

the page is locked
the page is in the "published" category
bibliographic meta-data are added
a forum is added, with the referee reports

...

END OF THE PROCESS

2010/04/07