IMPORTANT!
The paper length of SLT 2022 is limited to a maximum of 6 pages for main contents + extra 2 pages for references. However, if you think of converting this conference paper as a basis for the IEEE journals and transactions, we suggest you conform to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Rule and limit the length of your paper to 5 pages for main contents + 1 extra page for references. Note that we will instruct reviewers that both paper lengths are acceptable and this should not be a criterion impacting their reviews.
The review procedure for SLT 2022 will be double-blind. This means that the reviewers will be unknown to the authors, and the authors will be unknown to the reviewers. The authors are not allowed to provide the information that would identify the authors (such as an acknowledgment footnote).
The SLT 2022 paper submission and review process is being conducted in a manner similar to previous workshops:
Papers may be no longer than 6 pages of content and figures, plus up to 2 pages containing only references, including all text, figures, and references.
Papers must be submitted and updated by each 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.
The deadline for submitting papers is 15 July, 2022 at 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). After this date/time, no new submissions will be accepted. The deadline for updating papers is 21 July, 2022 at 23:59:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth). After this date/time, no update will be accepted.
| All deadlines are at Midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth) | |
|---|---|
| July 15, 2022 | Paper submission deadline |
| July 21, 2022 | Paper update deadline |
| Aug 26-31, 2022 | Author rebuttal period |
| Sept 30, 2022 | Paper notification |
| Middle of December | Author registration due |
| Jan 9-12, 2022 | Workshop Date |
Please make sure to put the the paper number that is assigned to you on all correspondence.
Additional questions regarding the submission of papers should be directed to the following address:
Use the following guidelines when preparing your document:
LENGTH: You are allowed a total of 6 pages of content and figures, plus up to 2 pages containing only references for your document. This is the maximum number of pages that will be accepted, including all figures, tables, and references. Any documents that exceed the 6-page content & figure limit, or which have content other than references on page 8 will be rejected. If you think of converting this conference paper as a basis for the IEEE journals and transactions, we suggest you conform to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Rule and limit the length of your paper to 5 pages for main contents + 1 extra page for references.
LANGUAGE: All submissions must be in English.
MARGINS: Documents should be formatted for standard letter-size (8-1/2" by 11" or 216mm by 279mm) paper A4-size is also acceptable. Any text or other material outside the margins specified below will not be accepted:
A format sheet with the margins and placement guides is available in the following file formats:
These files contain lines and boxes showing the margins and print areas. If you print one of these files, 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.
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.
AUTHOR LIST: The authors' name(s) and affiliation(s) appear below the title in capital and lower case letters. Submissions 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. Do not include the author list on the blind version of the submission.
ABSTRACT: Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 100 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): Enter up to 5 keywords separated by commas.
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:
[1] D. E. Ingalls, "Image Processing for Experts," IEEE Trans. ASSP, vol. ASSP-36, pp. 1932-1948, 1988.
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 electronic 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.
The following style files and templates are available for users of LaTeX and Microsoft Word:
We recommend that you use the Word file or LaTeX files 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.
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:
PDF files with Postscript Type 3 fonts are highly discouraged. 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.
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 PDF 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.
Some LaTeX installations also include pdflatex, which produces acceptable PDF files as well.
Authors will be permitted to submit a document file up to 10 MB (megabytes) in size.
The filename of the document file should contain only ASCII characters, followed by the appropriate extension ( .pdf). For example, "advanced_coding.pdf". 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 file name will not overwrite each other and will be distinguishable.
When you have your document file ready, gather the following information before entering the submission system:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SLT2022
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.
If you encounter trouble, contact the paper submission support at: tc.slt2022@gmail.com.
SLT 2022 is based on double-blind. The reviewers will not know the authors’ identity (and vice versa). Detailed instructions for how to ensure your anonymity are also contained in the above example paper. In brief, please refer to your prior work in the third person wherever possible, and please refrain from adding acknowledgements, grant numbers as well as public github repository links to your submitted paper. If you need to make an anonymous reference (e.g., if you refer to your own work that is under review elsewhere), please upload an anonymous version of this work as supplementary material (see below). Note that anonymizing your paper is obligatory, and papers that explicitly or implicitly reveal the authors’ identities may be rejected. A reviewer may be able to deduce the authors’ identities by using external resources, such as technical reports or pre-print published on the web, including arXiv. Therefore, to preserve the authors’ anonymity we recommend the authors not to post articles on external resources before the acceptance notification date. We will also instruct reviewers not to try finding the authors’ identity from the web. The availability of information on the web that may allow reviewers to infer the authors’ identities does not constitute a breach of the double-blind submission policy.
SLT 2022 supports the submission of two kinds of supplementary material -- supplementary manuscripts and code/data -- which can be used to provide additional evidence. The supplementary material can be submitted as either a zip file or a pdf.
If you make anonymous references in the paper, please upload the referenced papers, so that the reviewers can take a quick look. Please also take care not to reveal your identity in the supplementary material.
For code submission, we expect authors to put in reasonable effort to anonymize the submitted code and institution. This means that author names and licenses should be removed. Submission of code through anonymous github repositories is allowed; however, they have to be on a branch that will not be modified after the submission deadline. Please refer to the anonymous github reporitory in your paper. Finally, we understand that many of our authors work with highly sensitive datasets, and are not asking for private data submission. The supplementary material may also consists of audio samples or excerpts from the dataset to illustrate the task or results.
Note that submitted papers must be entirely self-contained without the supplementary material. Reviewers are encouraged, but not obliged to look at the provided supplementary material because we also do not want to burden reviewers unnecessarily. In particular, you must not use supplementary material for extending the length of your paper. If there is material that you believe is critical to the evaluation of your paper, it needs to be included in the paper. Supplementary material will not be published or archived, and there are no format restrictions. If you want to include it in a final version of the paper, you must-sort-sort put it on a web site and reference the site in the final version of your paper.
Your submitted paper will be 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 SLT 2022. 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 blind version of your document and rate it according to quality, relevance, and correctness. After the review finishes, the authors are invited by the Technical Program Committee (TPC) to view the reviews of their paper and to optionally submit a one-page rebuttal to reviews. The TPC will consider the rebuttal when making final decisions by the discussions with the reviewers. The result of the technical committee's decision will be communicated to the submitting authors by email.
After you submit your document, you may monitor the status of your paper as it progresses through the submission and review process by using the Paper Status website available at:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SLT2022
Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by email as close as possible to the published author notification date.
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, SLT 2022 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 SLT 2022 technical committee at tc.slt2022@gmail.com.
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, with the payment received by the author registration deadline (see above) to avoid being withdrawn from the conference.
One of the following codes should be inserted into the paper as a copyright notice:
MS Word users please replace the XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.XX in the (footnote of page 1 of the) Word template with the proper code.
LaTeX users please first UPDATE the spconf.sty with the new version (Here). Then, according to the chosen code, put one of the following lines just before the \begin{document}, …
\copyrightnotice{U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright}
\copyrightnotice{978-1-6654-7189-3/22/\$31.00~\copyright2023 Crown}
\copyrightnotice{978-1-6654-7189-3/22/\$31.00~\copyright2023 European Union}
\copyrightnotice{978-1-6654-7189-3/22/\$31.00~\copyright2023 IEEE}
You need to check that your paper is IEEE Xplore®-compatible before submitting it to CMT.
Now, please follow these instructions to complete the submission. You should
If you wish to post the final version or the preprint of an accepted paper in ArXiv, some websites, etc., please read the followings. For more details please refer to the FAQ on Intellectual Property Rights for IEEE Authors.
Yes. The IEEE recognizes that many authors share their unpublished manuscripts on public sites. Once manuscripts have been accepted for publication by IEEE, an author is required to post an IEEE copyright notice on his preprint. Upon publication, the author must replace the preprint with either 1) the full citation to the IEEE work with Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) or a link to the paper’s abstract in IEEE Xplore, or 2) the accepted version only (not the IEEEpublished version), including the IEEE copyright notice and full citation, with a link to the final, published paper in IEEE Xplore.
No. The new policy was approved in November 2010 and applies to papers published beginning in January 2011. Final, published versions of papers that were posted before January 2011 do not need to be removed.
If necessary, contact the Publication Chairs (Alberto Abad at alberto.abad@inesc-id.pt or Erfan Loweimi at erfan.loweimi@kcl.ac.uk) for the appropriate copyright notice.