QoMEX 2011 Author's Paper Kit
Part I: General Information
Procedure
The QoMEX 2011 paper submission and review process is being conducted in a manner similar to previous QoMEX conferences:
- Authors who wish to participate in the conference will create documents consisting of a complete description of their ideas and applicable research results in a maximum of 6 pages submitted only in PDF format.
- Submit the paper electronically and copyright form by fax. This paper submission must be submitted in final, publishable form before the submission deadline listed below.
- Check the QoMEX 2011 website for the status of your paper.
- Paper submissions will be reviewed by experts selected by the conference committee for their demonstrated knowledge of particular topics. The progress and results of the review process will be posted on this website, and authors will also be notified of the review results by email.
- Prepare a lecture or poster presentation following the guidelines included in this document.
The review process is being conducted entirely online. To make the review process easy for the reviewers, and to assure that the paper submissions will be readable through the online review system, we ask that authors submit paper documents that are formatted according to the Paper Kit instructions included here.
Requirements
Papers may be no longer than 6 pages, double column format, following the QoMEX 2011 templates (LaTeX and Word templates available), including all text, figures, and references.
Papers must be submitted by the deadline date. There will be no exceptions.
Accepted papers MUST be presented at the conference by one of the authors, or, if none of the authors are able to attend, by a qualified surrogate. The presenter MUST register for the conference at one of the non-student rates offered, and MUST register before the deadline given for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program. A single registration may cover up to four (4) papers.
Deadlines and Important Dates
| Important Dates | |
| Submission of full-length papers | March 28, 2011 |
| Notification of acceptance | June 2, 2011 |
| Submission of camera-ready papers | June 19, 2011 |
Correspondence
Please make sure to put the conference name (QoMEX 2011) and the paper number that is assigned to you on all correspondence.
Additional questions regarding submission of papers should be directed to the following address:
Part II: Preparation of the Paper
Document Formatting
Use the following guidelines when preparing your document:
LENGTH: You are allowed a total of 6 pages for your document, double column format, following the provided QoMEX 2011 LaTeX or Word templates. This is the maximum number of pages that will be accepted, including all figures, tables, and references. Any documents that exceed the 6 page limit will be rejected.
LANGUAGE: All proposals must be in English.
MARGINS: Documents should be formatted for standard letter-size (8-1/2" by 11" or 216mm by 279mm) paper. Any text or other material outside the margins specified below will not be accepted:
- All text and figures must be contained in a 178 mm x 229 mm (7 inch x 9 inch) image area.
- The left margin must be 19 mm (0.75 inch).
- The top margin must be 25 mm (1.0 inch), except for the title page where it must be 35 mm (1.375 inches).
- Text should appear in two columns, each 86 mm (3.39 inch) wide with 6 mm (0.24 inch) space between columns.
- On the first page, the top 50 mm (2") of both columns is reserved for the title, author(s), and affiliation(s). These items should be centered across both columns, starting at 35 mm (1.375 inches) from the top of the page.
- The paper abstract should appear at the top of the left-hand column of text, about 12 mm (0.5") below the title area and no more than 80 mm (3.125") in length. Leave 12 mm (0.5") of space between the end of the abstract and the beginning of the main text.
A format sheet with the margins and placement guides is available here:
- PDF file (When you print this file, make sure the "shrink to fit" box is not checked!)
The file contains lines and boxes showing the margins and print areas. If you print this file, then stack it atop your printed page and hold it up to the light, you can easily check your margins to see if your print area fits within the space allowed.
TYPE:
Face: To achieve the best viewing experience for the review process and conference proceedings, we strongly encourage authors to use Times-Roman or Computer Modern fonts. If a font face is used that is not recognized by the submission system, your proposal will not be reproduced correctly.
Size: Use a font size that is no smaller than 9 points throughout the paper, including figure captions. In 9-point type font, capital letters are 2 mm high. For 9-point type font, there should be no more than 3.2 lines/cm (8 lines/inch) vertically. This is a minimum spacing; 2.75 lines/cm (7 lines/inch) will make the proposal much more readable. Larger type sizes require correspondingly larger vertical spacing.
TITLE: The paper title must appear in boldface letters and should be in ALL CAPITALS. Do not use LaTeX math notation ($x_y$) in the title; the title must be representable in the Unicode character set. Also try to avoid uncommon acronyms in the title. Notice that this title must be identical in all your communications, including the paper itself (PDF), the information provided in the paper management interface (EDAS), and the copyright form.
AUTHOR LIST: The authors' name(s) and affiliation(s) appear below the title in capital and lower case letters. Proposals with multiple authors and affiliations may require two or more lines for this information. The order of the authors on the document should exactly match in number and order the authors typed into the online submission form. QoMEX does not perform blind reviews, so be sure to include the author list in your submitted paper.
ABSTRACT: Each paper should contain an abstract between 80 to 150 words that appears at the beginning of the document. Use the same text that is submitted electronically along with the author contact information.
INDEX TERMS (KEYWORDS) NEW: Enter up to 5 keywords separated by commas. Keywords may be selected from the IEEE keyword list found at: http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/ani_prod/keywrd98.txt.
BODY: Major headings appear in boldface CAPITAL letters, centered in the column. Subheadings appear in capital and lower case, either underlined or in boldface. They start at the left margin of the column on a separate line. Sub-subheadings are discouraged, but if they must be used, they should appear in capital and lower case, and start at the left margin on a separate line. They may be underlined or in italics.
REFERENCES: List and number all references at the end of the document. The references can be numbered in alphabetical order or in order of appearance in the paper. When referring to them in the text, type the corresponding reference number in square brackets as shown at the end of this sentence [1]. The end of the document should include a list of references containing information similar to the following example:
ILLUSTRATIONS & COLOR: Illustrations must appear within the designated margins. They may span the two columns. If possible, position illustrations at the top of columns, rather than in the middle or at the bottom. Caption and number every illustration. All halftone illustrations must be clear in black and white. Since the printed proceedings will be produced in black and white, be sure that your images are acceptable when printed in black and white (the CD-ROM and IEEE Xplore proceedings will retain the colors in your document).
PAGE NUMBERS: Do not put page numbers on your document. Appropriate page numbers will be added to accepted papers when the conference proceedings are assembled.
Templates
The following style files and templates are available for users of LaTeX and Microsoft Word:
- LaTeX style file with margin, page layout, font, etc. definitions.
- BiBTeX style file with bibliography style definitions.
- LaTeX template file, an example of using the "spconf.sty" and "IEEEbib.bst" files above.
- PDF generated from the template file.
- Sample strings.bib and refs.bib files.
- Sample image1.pdf, image3.pdf and image4.pdf files, referenced in the LaTeX template.
- Word 97/2000 Sample, a template of correct formatting and font use.
It is imperative that you use the LaTeX files or Word file to produce your document, since they have been set up to meet the formatting guidelines listed above. When using these files, double-check the paper size in your page setup to make sure you are using the letter-size paper layout (8.5" X 11") or A4 paper layout (210mm X 297mm). The LaTeX environment files specify suitable margins, page layout, text, and a bibliography style.
In particular, with LaTeX, there are cases where the top-margin of the resulting PDF file does not meet the specified parameters. In this case, you may need to add a \topmargin=0mm command just after the \begin{document} command in your .tex file. The spacing of the top margin is not critical, as the page contents will be adjusted on the proceedings. The critical dimensions are the actual width and height of the page content.
Part III: Submission and Review of the Paper
The review process will be performed from the electronic submission of your paper. To ensure that your document is compatible with the review system, please adhere to the following compatibility requirements:
File Format
The 'IEEE Requirements for PDF Documents' MUST be followed EXACTLY. The conference is required to ensure that documents follow this specification. The requirements are enumerated in:
Papers must be submitted in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) format.
PDF files:
- must not have Adobe Document Protection or Document Security enabled,
- must have either 'US Letter' or 'A4' sized pages,
- must be in first-page-first order, and
- must have ALL FONTS embedded and subset.
ALL FONTS MUST be embedded in the PDF file. There is no guarantee that the viewers of the paper (reviewers and those who view the proceedings CD-ROM after publication) have the same fonts used in the document. If fonts are not embedded in the submission, you will be contacted by the organizersnd asked to submit a file that has all fonts embedded. Please refer to your PDF file generation utility's user guide to find out how to embed all fonts.
Information for LaTeX users
Authors willing to write their paper in LaTeX must use the style file recommended above (spconf.sty).
Generating a PDF file is straightforward for all LaTeX packages we are aware of (and direct LaTeX->PDF conversion are now possible on most systems with tools like pdflatex).
When preparing the proposal under LaTeX, it is preferable to use scalable fonts such as Type I, Computer Modern. However, quite good results can be obtained with the fonts defined spconf.sty.
Warning: PDF files with Postscript Type 3 fonts are highly discouraged and could lead to the rejection of the paper. PDF 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 is found at:
For most installations of LaTeX, you can cause dvips to output Type 1 fonts instead of Type 3 fonts by including -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. You may also need to tell dvips to force letter sized paper with the option: -t letter.
It remains then to convert the final postscript file into PDF by using common tools like ps2pdf, or pstopdf, or any ps to pdf converter.
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 paper submission technical support at: qomex-papers@ibbt.be
File Name
The filename of the document file should be the first author's last name, followed by the appropriate extension (.pdf). For example, if the first author's name is Johan Smith, you would submit your file as "smith.pdf". To speed transmission of your PDF file, you may use a compression utility that will produce compressed archives that are 100% compatible with the ZIP compression format defined by PKWare or the GZip format common on UNIX and Linux systems. Such a utility can be downloaded from PKWare's website at: www.pkware.com. This compression is not required, but it is allowed and encouraged so that file transfer times may be reduced. If you do submit a compressed version of the document file, use the same filename specification mentioned earlier, with the appropriate file extension (for example, "smith.zip" or "smith.gz"). The paper submission process will append the filename with a unique identifier when it is stored on our system, so multiple submissions with the same name will not overwrite each other and will be distinguishable.
Electronic Paper Submission
When you have your document file ready, gather the following information before entering the submission system:
- Document file in PDF format
- Affiliation, email address, and mailing address for each author
- Paper title
- 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, go to the 'Online Submission' link on the QoMEX 2011 homepage:
The submission system will present an entry form to allow you to enter the paper title, abstract text, review category, and author contact information.
ALL authors must be entered in the online form, and must appear in the online form in the same order in which the authors appear on the PDF.
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 labeled 'Submit' 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 is assigned to you, and email message will be sent to the authors' email addresses to confirm that the file has been uploaded. If you do not see the confirmation page after uploading your file, we may not have successfully received your file upload. If you encounter trouble, contact the paper submission support at: qomex-papers@ibbt.be
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IEEE Copyright Transfer Form
QoMEX 2011 is using the IEEE eCopyright form. ICIP 2011 will only require the eCopyright form to be generated after paper
acceptance by
the QoMEX 2011 TPC. It is only therefore requested upon submission of the final manuscript and only then.
In order to
submit the final
manuscript authors need to send the eCopyright to IEEE. When in EDAS, this can be done by clicking on the small copyright symbol in the copyright
field present in each paper page. They will then be redirected to the IEEE eCopyright form. Authors are then required to completed the form
before the submission of camera-ready papers deadline.
If you have difficulty generating the IEEE eCopyright form, please contact the paper submission support at: qomex-papers@ibbt.be.
Online Review Process
Your submitted paper will be converted to PDF format by the submission system if necessary, then visually inspected by our submission system staff to assure that the document is readable and meets all formatting requirements to be included in a visually pleasing and consistent proceedings publication for QoMEX 2011. If our submission inspectors encounter errors with your submitted file, they will contact you to resolve the issue. If your paper passes inspection, it will be entered into the review process. A committee of reviewers selected by the conference committee will review the documents and rate them 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. The result of the technical committee's decision will be communicated to the submitting authors by email, along with any reviewer comments, if any.
Monitor Your Submission Status
After you submit your document, you may monitor the status of your paper here.
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 email notification will include the presentation format chosen for your paper (lecture or poster) and may also include the presentation date and time, if available.
The notification email will include comments from the reviewers. The conference cannot guarantee that all of the reviewers will provide the level of comment desired by you. However, reviewers are encouraged to submit as detailed comments as possible.
Because of the short amount of time between paper acceptance decisions and the beginning of the publication process, QoMEX 2011 is not able to allow for a two-way discourse between the authors and the reviewers of a paper. If there appears to be a logistical error in the reviewer comments, such as the reviewer commenting on the wrong paper, etc., please contact QoMEX 2011 at qomex-papers@qomex2011.org
Required Author Registration
Be sure that at least one author registers to attend the conference using the online registration system available through the conference website. Each paper must have at least one author registered (at non-student rate), with the payment received by the author registration deadline (see above) to avoid being withdrawn from the conference.
Copyright Issues for Web Publication
If you plan to publish a copy of an accepted paper on the Internet by any means, you MUST display the following IEEE copyright notice on the first page that displays IEEE published (and copyrighted) material:
Copyright 2011 QoMEX. Published in the 2011 Quality on Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2011), scheduled for September 7-9, 2011 in Mechelen, Belgium. 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 QoMEX organization.
If you post an electronic version of an accepted paper, you must provide the QoMEX organization with the electronic address (URL, FTP address, etc.) of the posting.
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