Author Instructions

The deadline for video submissions is the same as for hardcopies of papers, Friday December 3.

Both Davids have discussed the question of moving the deadline - in fact,  we discussed it before we set the deadline.  There were two options:

    1) to set the deadline artificially early, and then slip it to loud shouts of relief or
    2) to set the deadline where the operations issues forced it to be  so that we could
        get things done on time (we need to allocate papers to area chairs, so that reviewers
        get papers before Christmas break).

  We decided to do the latter.  Basically, we set the deadline up such that we could allocate papers to area chairs on time - that  is, this is a pre-slipped deadline, meaning that no extensions are possible.

  However, we're not unreasonable.  We won't refuse to handle things that come late, if they don't miss our internal deadlines for handling papers.  In practice, this means that we can guarantee to handle papers that arrive on Friday, Dec. 3  We will be allocating papers to area chairs that weekend.  We are unlikely to be able to handle papers that arrive after Dec. 3.

Please note that the web site will still close on Nov. 29.

Paper submission consists of both paper and on-line submission actions:

• On-line submission: To ensure proper handling of your paper and to facilitate the review process, we request that the title of the submission, the name and contact information of the primary author, and a short abstract (not longer than 300 words in plain text format) be submitted electronically on the WWW. Click here for the on-line submission page. The electronic submission generates a paper number which you must put on all copies of your paper.
• Paper submission: A complete paper, not longer than eight pages including figures and references, should be submitted in camera-ready IEEE 2-column format of single-spaced text in 10 point Times Roman (or closely resembling), with 12 point interline space. A paper should not include any information which allows the authors to be identified. The format instructions are further detailed here. Send five copies of the paper and one cover sheet stating the (1) paper title, (2) authors, (2) technical area(s), (3) the paper number as generated by the on-line submission, (4) contact author's name, address, telephone number, fax number, and electronic address to:

 

 
 








David J. Kriegman
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
405 N. Mathews Ave.,
Urbana, IL  61801  USA

TEL : (217) 333-1878
FAX : (217) 244-8371

The submission page limit has been relaxed to a MAXIMUM OF 8 PAGES in the approved CVPR camera-ready page format,  However, camera-ready copies of accepted papers are limited to 6 proceedings pages free of charge. Authors may purchase a maximum of 2 additional proceedings page at a cost of $200 per page. Papers accepted for
either oral or poster presentation receive the same number of pages within the proceedings.  Unless the reviews recommend shortening, the published copy of an accepted paper should NOT be a significantly shortened version of the reviewed manuscript. Therefore, it is understood that authors electing to submit seven-page papers intend to purchase at least one extra page in the proceedings should their submissions be accepted. A LaTeX style file is available to assist authors in conforming to the IEEE standard.

A Microsoft Word Template File is also now being made available to CVPR authors. The Word Style File was prepared by the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and this is the first time our community has used it. If you use the Word Style File, please double check that your manuscript conforms to the approved CVPR camera-ready page format and inform us if any problems are found with the style file.
 

Each paper will be sent to three anonymous reviewers, who will not know the authors' identity (double blind).  Decisions about acceptance for an oral presentations, acceptance for a poster presentation, or rejection will be made during a meeting of the Area Chairs.  Authors may find the Referee Instructions valuable in so far as they provide guidance about the criteria for acceptance.

An FTP facility, ftp-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu, has been established for authors to upload movie clips in support of their submissions for review purposes. Submitted papers should refer in the text to supporting movies as "Movie 1", etc. Authors should name the associated movie files that they upload to the FTP site using the convention "nnn-1.ext", etc., where "nnn" identifies the submission number assigned to the paper when an author registers the submission online at the CVPR 2000 WWW site and "ext" is a standard movie file format extension (e.g., mpg, mpeg, avi, mov).  Uploaded files not adhering to this convention will be deleted. Access the FTP site in the usual way, e.g.:

 ftp ftp-cvr.ai.uiuc.edu
 Name: cvpr2000
 Password: vision
 ftp> binary
 ftp> put <FILENAME>


Note that it is crucial to employ "binary" transfer and that the incoming/ directory is write-only. The FTP site will be closed to incoming transfers on 12/01/99 and the contents will subsequently be made accessible