Author Guidelines
CMT
submissions Website
http://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/3DV2020
Important
dates:
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Paper Registration |
July 24, 2020 (11:59PM Pacific
Time) |
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Paper Submission |
July 31, 2020 (11:59PM Pacific
Time) |
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Supplementary |
August 7, 2020 (11:59PM
Pacific Time) |
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Rebuttal Period |
September 16-21, 2020 |
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Paper Notification |
October 1, 2020 |
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Camera Ready |
October 15, 2020 (11:59PM
Pacific Time) |
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Main Conference |
November 25-27, 2020 |
* Submission date is fixed; no extension
will be given.
Policies
Review Process: By
submitting a paper to 3DV, the authors agree to the review process and
understand that papers are processed by the Toronto system to match each
manuscript to the best possible area chairs and reviewers.
Confidentiality: The review
process of 3DV is confidential. Reviewers are volunteers, not part of the 3DV
organization, and their efforts are greatly appreciated. The practice of
keeping all information confidential during the review is part of the standard
communication to all reviewers. Misuse of confidential information is a severe
professional failure and appropriate measures will be taken when brought to the
attention of the 3DV organizers. It should be noted, however, that the organization
of 3DV is not and cannot be held responsible for the consequences when
reviewers break confidentiality.
Conflict Responsibilities: It is the
primary author's responsibility to ensure that all authors on their paper have
registered their institutional conflicts into CMT3 (see details under Domain
Conflicts below). If a paper is found to have an undeclared or incorrect
institutional conflict, the paper may be summarily rejected. To avoid
undeclared conflicts, the author list is considered to be final after the
submission deadline and no changes are allowed for accepted papers.
Double blind review: 3DV
reviewing is double blind, in that authors do not know the names of the area
chair/reviewers of their papers, and the area chairs/reviewers cannot, beyond
reasonable doubt, infer the names of the authors from the submission and the
additional material. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors
in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs) and in the supplemental
material (e.g., titles in the movies, or attached papers). Avoid providing
links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines
may lead to rejection without review. If you need to cite a different paper of
yours that is being submitted concurrently to 3DV, the authors should (1) cite
these papers; (2) argue in the body of your paper why your 3DV paper is non-trivially
different from these concurrent submissions; and (3) include anonymized
versions of those papers in the supplemental material.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism
consists of appropriating the words or results of another, without credit. 3DV
2020's policy on plagiarism is to refer suspected cases to the IEEE
Intellectual Property office, which has an established mechanism for dealing
with plagiarism and wide powers of excluding offending authors from future
conferences and from IEEE journals. You can find information on this office,
their procedures, and their definitions of five levels of plagiarism at this webpage. We will
be actively checking for plagiarism. Furthermore, the paper matching system is
quite accurate. As a result, it regularly happens that a paper containing
plagiarized material goes to a reviewer from whom material was plagiarized;
experience shows that such reviewers pursue plagiarism cases enthusiastically.
Dual/Double Submissions: The goals
of 3DV are to publish exciting new work for the first time and to avoid
duplicating the effort of reviewers.
By submitting a manuscript to 3DV, authors
acknowledge that it has not been previously published or accepted for publication
in substantially similar form in any peer-reviewed venue including journal,
conference or workshop, or archival forum. Furthermore, no publication
substantially similar in content has been or will be submitted to this or
another conference, workshop, or journal during the review period.
Violation of any of these conditions will lead to rejection and will be
reported to the other venue to which the submission was sent.
A publication, for the purposes of this
policy, is defined to be a written work longer than four pages (excluding
references) that was submitted for review by peers for either acceptance or
rejection, and, after review, was accepted. In particular, this definition of
publication does not depend upon whether such an accepted written work appears
in a formal proceedings or whether the organizers
declare that such work “counts as a publication”.
The above definition does not
consider an arXiv.org paper as a publication because it cannot be rejected. It
also excludes university technical reports which are typically not peer
reviewed. However, this definition of publication does include
peer-reviewed workshop papers, even if they do not appear in a proceedings, if their length is more than four pages
(excluding citations). Given this definition, any submission to 3DV should not
have substantial overlap with prior publications or other concurrent
submissions.
A submission with substantial overlap is
one that shares 20 percent or more material with previous or concurrently
submitted publications. Authors are encouraged to contact the Program Chairs (3DV20PCs at 3dv.org) about
clarifications on borderline cases.
Note that a technical report (departmental,
arXiv.org, etc.) version of the submission that is put up without any form of
direct peer-review is NOT considered prior art and should NOT be cited in the
submission.
Attendance responsibilities: The
authors agree that if the paper is accepted, at least one of the authors will
register for the conference and present the paper there.
Publication: All
accepted papers will be made publicly available on November 18, 2020 (JST).
Authors wishing to submit a patent understand that the paper's official public
disclosure is one week before the conference or whenever the authors make it
publicly available, whichever is first. The conference considers papers confidential
until published one week before the conferences, but
notes that multiple organizations will have access during the review and
production processes, so those seeking patents should discuss filing dates with
their IP council. The conference assumes no liability for early disclosures.
Publicity, social media: Papers
submitted to 3DV must not be discussed with the press until they have been
officially accepted for publication. Work explicitly identified as a 3DV
submission also may not be advertised on social media. Please see the FAQ below
for more details. Violations may result in the paper being rejected or removed
from the conference and proceedings.
Submission
Guidelines
All submissions will be handled
electronically via the conference's CMT website. By submitting a paper, the
authors agree to the policies stipulated in this website. The paper registration
deadline is July 24, 2020, and the submission deadline is July 31, 2020.
Supplementary material can be submitted until August 7, 2020. Note that unless the authors cannot submit a
paper without its registration.
Papers are limited to eight pages,
including figures and tables, in the 3DV style. Additional pages containing
only cited references are allowed. Please refer to the following files for
detailed formatting instructions:
·
Example submission paper with detailed instructions
Papers that are not properly anonymized, or
do not use the template, or have more than eight pages (excluding references)
will be rejected without review.
1) Paper submission and review site:
Submission Site (bookmark or save this URL!)
Please make sure that your browser has
cookies and Javascript enabled.
Please add "email@msr-cmt.org" to
your list of safe senders (whitelist) to prevent important email announcements
from being blocked by spam filters.
Log into CMT3 at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com. If you do not see
“2020 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)” in the conference list
already, click on the “All Conferences” tab and find it there.
2) Setting up your profile: You can
update your User Profile, Email, and Password by clicking on your name in the
upper-right inside the Author Console and choosing the appropriate option under
“General”.
3) Domain Conflicts: When you
log in for the first time, you will be asked to enter your conflict domain
information. You will not be able to submit any paper without entering this
information. We need to ensure conflict-free reviewing of all papers. At any
time before the submission deadline, you can update this information by
clicking on your name in the upper-right and entering “Domain Conflicts” under 3DV
2020.
It is the primary author's responsibility
to ensure that all authors on their paper have registered their institutional
conflicts into CMT3. Each author should list domains of all institutions they
have worked for, or have had very close collaboration with, within the last three
years (example: mit.edu; ox.ac.uk; microsoft.com). DO NOT enter the domain of
email providers such as gmail.com. This institutional conflict information will
be used in conjunction with prior authorship conflict information to resolve
assignments to both reviewers and area chairs. If a paper is found to have an
undeclared or incorrect institutional conflict, the paper may be summarily
rejected.
4) Creating a paper submission: This step
must be completed by the paper registration deadline. After this deadline, you
will not be able to register new papers, but you will be able to edit the
information for existing papers.
(a) Click the “+ Create new submission” button in
the upper-left to create a new submission. There, you
will be prompted to enter the title, abstract, authors, and subject areas. You
are strongly encouraged to finalize the author list by the registration
deadline.
(b) Check with your co-authors to make
sure that: (1) you add them with their correct CMT3 email; and (2) they have
entered their domain conflicts into CMT3 for 3DV 2020. If you add an author
with an email that is not in CMT3 and the name and organization is not
automatically filled, that means they are not yet in the system, and you should
make sure to check that they do not already have an account under a different
email before completing the requested information to add them.
(c) Enter subject (topic) areas for your
paper. You must include at least one primary
area. This information is used to help assign ACs and reviewers.
5) Paper Number
Once you have registered your paper (i.e.
title/authors), you will be assigned a paper number. Insert this into the latex
or word template before generating the pdf of your paper for submission. Papers
submitted without a number may not be reviewed.
6) Submission Requirements:
The maximum size of the abstract is 4000
characters.
The paper must be PDF only (maximum 100MB).
Make sure your paper meets the formatting and anonymity requirements described
above.
The supplementary material can be either
PDF or ZIP only (maximum 100MB).
7) Supplementary Material Submission: By the
supplementary material deadline, the authors may optionally submit code and/or
additional material that was ready at the time of paper submission but could
not be included due to constraints of format or space. The authors should refer
to the contents of the supplementary material appropriately in the paper.
Reviewers will be encouraged to look at it but are not obligated to do so.
Supplementary material may include
videos, proofs, additional figures or tables, more detailed analysis of
experiments presented in the paper, code, or a concurrent submission to 3DV or
another conference. It may not include results on additional datasets,
results obtained with an improved version of the method (e.g., following
additional parameter tuning or training), or an updated or corrected version of
the submission PDF. Papers with supplementary materials violating the
guidelines may be summarily rejected.
8) Code Submission and Reproducibility: To improve
reproducibility in AI research, we highly encourage authors to voluntarily
submit their code as part of the supplementary material. Authors should also
use the Reproducibility Checklist as a guide
for writing reproducible papers. Reviewers are encouraged to check the
submitted code to ensure that the paper’s results are trustworthy and reproducible.
The code should be anonymized, e.g., author names, institutions and licenses
should be removed. We do not expect authors to submit private/sensitive data,
only data sufficient to demonstrate the method. All code/data will be reviewed
confidentially and kept private.
Detailed supplementary material guidelines:
(a) All supplementary material must be
self-contained and zipped into a single file. The following document and media
formats are allowed: avi, doc, docx, mp4, pdf, wmv. CMT imposes a 100MB limit on the size of this file.
Note that you can update the file by uploading a new one (the old one will be
deleted and replaced).
(b) The paper for review (PDF only) must be
submitted first before the supplementary material (PDF or ZIP only) can be submitted.
(c) Code can be submitted as part of the
supplementary zip file or through anonymous Github
repositories (include the link in a separate text file in the supplementary
zip). The link should point to a branch that will not be modified after the submission
deadline.
Rebuttal
Instructions
After receiving the reviews, authors may
optionally submit a rebuttal to address the reviewers' comments, which will be
limited to a one page PDF file using the "3DV
2020 Rebuttal Template" .
The rebuttal must maintain anonymity and
cannot include external links that reveal the author identity or circumvent the
length restriction.
Responses longer than one page will simply
not be reviewed. This includes responses where the margins and formatting are
deemed to have been significantly altered from those specified by the style
guide.
The author rebuttal is optional and is
meant to provide you with an opportunity to rebut factual errors or to supply
additional information requested by the reviewers. It is NOT intended to add
new contributions (theorems, algorithms, experiments) that were absent in the
original submission and NOT specifically requested by the reviewers. You may
optionally add a figure, graph or proof to your rebuttal to better illustrate
your answer to the reviewers' comments.
Reviewers should refrain from requesting
significant additional experiments for the rebuttal, or
penalize for lack of additional experiments. Authors should refrain from
including new experimental results in the rebuttal, especially when not
specifically requested to do so by the reviewers.
Author FAQs
About Submitting Papers
Q. Can we please have an extension on the
deadline?
A. NO. And any incomplete submission or a
submission not meeting required criteria will be deleted.
Q. Can we get my quota increased for the size
of paper submission from 100 MB to something higher?
A. NO. We have set hard limits of 100MB
(PDF Only) for paper submission and 100MB (PDF or ZIP only) for supplementary
materials on submissions for review. As we are expecting many submissions, and
as each reviewer is expected to review multiple papers, larger file downloads
(and uploads) will tax the system and abilities of reviewers to get to the
papers fast enough. Authors should consider adding hi-res images as
supplementary material (see supplementary material guidelines).
Q. How do I delete Supplementary Material
from the CMT site?
A. After you log in, in the
"Author" console, you'll notice "Upload/Delete File" at the
end of the supplementary file name. Click on that, and in the page that
appears, you can click on the "Delete" button to remove the
supplementary file. (Please note that you will not be able to delete the
supplementary file after the supplementary material deadline.)
Q. Can we submit color images with our
papers for review?
A. YES. Reviewers will get the exact pdf
file of the paper you submitted, so they can see the color images on the
screen. Do be warned though that many reviewers still like to read printed
papers and not all have access to high-end color printers. Please make sure to
comment in the paper to request the reviewers to see the color online copy.
Q. What is the 3DV 2020 policy on DUAL
SUBMISSIONS?
A. Please read the dual/double
submission paragraph above.
Q. Does a Technical Report (departmental, arXiv, etc.) available online count as a prior publication,
and therefore is that work ineligible for review and publication at 3DV 2020?
A. Please read the dual/double
submission paragraph above.
Q. Does a document on GitHub or other open
repositories count as a publication, and therefore is ineligible for review and
publication at 3DV 2020?
A. Submissions to GitHub and similar
repositories cannot be rejected and are accepted by default before any
"review" that can take place on such platforms. Given definitions in
the dual/double submission paragraph above, GitHub documents are not
publications and won't be treated as such. To preserve anonymity, you should
not cite your public codebase. You can say that the code will be made publicly
available.
Q. Does a presentation at a departmental
seminar during the review period violate the anonymity standard or other 3DV
2020 policy?
A. NO. Authors must properly anonymize the
written submission as per the guidelines. There is no requirement that the
material otherwise be kept confidential during the review process.
Q. Can I promote my paper in the press or
on social media?
A. As stated in the instructions above,
authors are not allowed to go to the press with their submission prior to the
end of the review process, or to advertise their work on social media while
explicitly identifying it as a 3DV submission. In recent conference cycles,
some authors were found posting about their submissions on Twitter or other
social media, and even including the title or a snapshot of the paper. This is
a violation of anonymity, since the message may go out to
many potential reviewers.
Authors must not:
·
Talk to the media about your
work as "in submission to 3DV"
·
Make any posts to social media
or elsewhere that can be linked to a specific 3DV submission (e.g., mentioning
the title of the submission or details and content and saying that it's a 3DV
submission)
Authors may:
·
Talk about their work in a
presentation without saying it's submitted to 3DV
·
Submit to arXiv
without mentioning 3DV
A paper may be rejected if the program
chairs feel that the authors have attempted to let potential reviewers know who
wrote the paper.
Q. How do I cite my results reported in
open challenges?
A. To conform with the double-blind review
policy, you can report results of other challenge participants together with
your results in your paper. For your results, however, you should not identify
yourself and should not mention your participation in the challenge. Instead
present your results referring to the method proposed in your paper and draw
conclusions based on the experimental comparison to other results.
Q. Does my submission need to cite arXiv papers that are related to my work?
A. Consistent with good academic practice,
you need to cite all sources that inspired and informed your own work. This
said, asking authors to thoroughly compare their work with arXiv
reports that appeared shortly before the submission deadline imposes an
unreasonable burden. We also do not wish to discourage the publication of
similar ideas that have been developed independently and concurrently. Authors
and reviewers should keep the following guidelines in mind:
·
Authors are not required to
discuss and compare their work with recent arXiv
reports, although they must properly cite those that inspired them.
·
To reduce confusion, whenever
citing papers that initially appeared on arXiv, the
authors should check whether those papers had subsequently been published in a
peer-reviewed venue, and to cite those versions accordingly.
·
Failing to cite an arXiv paper or failing to beat its performance SHOULD NOT
be sole grounds for rejection.
·
Reviewers SHOULD NOT reject a
paper solely because another paper with a similar idea has already appeared on arXiv. If the reviewer suspects plagiarism or academic
dishonesty, they are encouraged to bring these concerns to the attention of
Area and Program Chairs.
·
It is acceptable for a reviewer
to suggest that an author should acknowledge or be aware of something on arXiv.
About the Review Process
Q. Is the 3DV 2020 Review Process
CONFIDENTIAL?
A. YES, 3DV 2020 Reviewing is considered
confidential. All reviewers are required to keep every manuscript they review
as confidential documents and not to share or distribute materials for any
reason except to facilitate the reviewing of the submitted work.
Q. Are 3DV 2020 Reviews Double BLIND or
Single BLIND?
A. 3DV reviewing is Double BLIND, in that
authors do not know the names of the area chair/reviewers of their papers, and
area chairs/reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Please read Section
1.6 of the example paper egpaper_for_review.pdf for detailed instructions on
how to preserve anonymity. Avoid providing information that may identify the
authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs) and in the
supplemental material (e.g., titles in the movies, or attached papers). Avoid
providing links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of
these guidelines will lead to rejection without review.
About Code Submission
Q. Is code submission required?
A. No, it is completely optional.
Q. Does submitted code need to be
anonymized?
A. 3DV is a double blind
conference, so authors should make a reasonable effort to anonymize the
submitted code and data. This means that author names, institution names and
licenses should be removed. If the paper gets accepted, we expect the authors
to replace the submitted code by a non-anonymized version or link to a public github repository.
Q. Are anonymous github
links allowed?
A. Yes. However, they have to be on a
branch that will not be modified after the submission deadline. Please enter
the github link in a standalone text file in a
submitted zip file.
Q. How will the submitted code be used for
decision-making?
A. The submitted code will be used as
additional evidence provided by the authors to add more credibility to their
results. We anticipate that high quality papers whose results are judged by our
reviewers to be credible will be accepted to 3DV, even if code is not
submitted. However, if something is unclear in the paper, then code, if
submitted, will provide an extra chance for reviewers to verify it.
Q. If code is submitted, do you expect it
to be published with the rest of the supplementary? Or, could it be withdrawn
later?
A. We expect submitted code to be published
with the rest of the supplementary. However, if the paper gets accepted, then
the authors will get a chance to update the code before it is published by
adding author names, licenses, etc.
Q. Do you expect the code to be standalone?
For example, what if it is part of a much bigger codebase?
A. We expect your code to be readable and
helpful to reviewers in verifying the credibility of your results. It is
possible to do this through code that is not standalone -- for example, with
proper documentation.
Q. What about pseudocode instead of code?
Does that count as code submission?
A. Yes, we will count detailed pseudocode
as code submission as it is helpful to reviewers in validating the credibility
of your results.
Q. Do you expect authors to submit data?
A. We understand that many of our authors
work with highly sensitive datasets and are not asking for private data
submission. If the dataset used is publicly available, there is no need to
provide it. If the dataset is private, then the authors can submit a toy or
simulated dataset to illustrate how the code works.
Q. Who has access to my code? For how long?
A. Only the reviewers and Area Chair
assigned to your paper will have access to your code. We will instruct the reviewers
and Area Chair to keep the code submissions confidential (just like the paper
submissions), and delete all code submissions from
their machine at the end of the review cycle. Please note that code submission
is also completely voluntary.
Q. I would like to revise my code/add code
during author feedback. Is this permitted?
A. Unfortunately, no. But please remember
that code submission is entirely optional.