Third International Conference
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3D Digital Imaging and Modeling
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May 28 - June 1, 2001
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Loews Le Concorde Hotel, Québec City, Canada
Authors' Frequently Asked Questions
(and answers)
Using the WitanWeb Software (Now available)
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What does it mean to 'login' and how do I create an account? |
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How do I update my user information and what do the fields
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What is the meaning of the "Full Name" field? |
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Should the field "Full Name" include all authors of the
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Does every author of a paper need to register on the 3DIM2001
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I accidentally created a new paper. How do I delete it? |
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How do I submit (upload) my paper? |
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Can I mail my submission (send by post)? |
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3DIM2001 Papers (Formats, Publishers, Tracks, etc.)
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Are formats other than PostScript (PS) or PDF acceptable
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What will be the format of the proceedings? |
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Who will be publishing the proceedings of 3DIM2001? Will
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Does a paper currently being considered by another conference
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What is due on December 4th? |
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Q1: I accidentally created a new
paper. How do I delete it?
A paper with no owner is considered deleted. Login to your 3DIM2001 account.
On your personal menu, go to "Edit my submissions" (near the bottom of
the page) and select "Edit paper #" (where # is the actual number of the
paper you would like to delete). Near the bottom of the edit page is a
box entitled "Owner(s) of this submission". Delete all userids from this
box and submit the record. As far as you are concerned, the paper is now
gone.
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Q2: Should the field "Full Name"
include all authors of the paper?
No, there are two kinds of records (accessible to the community at large):
the user record and the paper record. While they are linked,
they contain distinct information. The user record contains personal information;
each author should have his/her own user record (see also Q3).
The "Full Name" field is intended for cases where the author's name contains
characters that are not representable in old-fashioned ASCII (see Q10).
The paper record contains the information related to the paper, including
the complete list of authors. Some information (Contact author) is initially
linked back to the user record of the user who created the paper record.
If multiple authors have registered on our web site, they all can be given
access to the paper record. The box for "Owner(s) of this submission" is
where the the contact author can allow the other authors to have their
user records linked in (otherwise they will not even see the paper). When
their 3DIM2001 user ID is entered in this box, they can view and edit the
paper record (every transaction is logged, so damage is minimized). (See
also Q1 for another use of the "Owner" box.)
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Q3: Does every author of a paper
need to register on the 3DIM2001 website?
No, it is not necessary that all authors of a paper login and register.
However,
we do encourage it. It has been our experience that individuals can
'disappear' for weeks at a time due to conferences, holidays, and the like,
and with additional contact information we have a chance to reach at least
one of the authors. (Q2 describes how to give additional
authors access to the paper record that one of the authors creates).
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Q4: Are formats other than PostScript
(PS) or PDF acceptable for draft papers (e.g. Word 97)?
No, we need to keep the number of formats to something manageable, so we
ask that you stick to PostScript (PS) or PDF. Fortunately, generating PS
from Word 97 is relatively easy. For PostScript, print to a file. For PDF,
you need a tool from Adobe, such as Acrobat Distiller or PDFWriter.
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Q5: What will be the format of the
proceedings?
The proceedings with be produced by the IEEE Press and will be available
at the Conference. We will also produce a online version of the proceedings.
The papers will also be posted on the Website.
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Q6: Can I mail my submission (send
by post)?
No, we can only accept electronic submissions via the Website. The WitanWeb
software manages the whole review process and electronic delivery of documents
to referees is a key component.
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Q7: Who will be publishing the proceedings
of 3DIM2001? Will it be all papers from the conference or just a few selected
papers?
The final version of the paper will be published by the IEEE and will be
made available at the Conference. Every accepted paper will be published
in the proceedings, but not necessarily in the form of a special issue
of any journal.
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Q8: Does a paper currently being
considered by another conference can qualify for submission to 3DIM2001?
No, only if it is rejected by the other conference/publisher prior to December
4th can you submit it to 3DIM2001. It is considered bad form to have a
paper simultaneously under review for two publications.
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Q9: What is due on December 4th?
The December 4th deadline is for us to receive, on this Website, the draft
of your paper that will be sent to the Program Committee for review. It
must be a complete submission; good enough to stand up to the competition
for a limited number of slots. Do not expect that you will have an opportunity
for any improvements because a great many papers will be rejected. There
will not be any conditional acceptances.
Papers should be no longer than 8 pages,
with the main body set in a 10-point font. We will
only accept papers in PostScript or PDF formats. (See also Q4
for more on formats.) Please note that we will only accept a single file
upload. If you are submitting multiple files please bundle all the files
together using one of the popular archive formats on Unix, Windows or Macintosh
platforms (e.g., zip, tar, StuffIt).
If your paper is accepted, referees may have suggestions for minor changes
that would improve your paper. The final version for the proceedings will
include these revisions and may also have to be in a special format to
conform to the styles of the publisher (see also Q5).
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Q10: What is the meaning of the
"Full Name" field?
We provide two separate fields in the user record for entering your name.
The first, simply called "Name", is the way you would like to be identified
on our system. The "Name" field is referenced in a number of places (e.g.,
when your create a new paper, your "Name" is copied by default into the
"Contact" field of the paper). The "Name" field should be entered in ASCII
or ISO-8859-1 character sets so as to be easily viewable in Web browsers.
In an international conference such as 3DIM2001, many people have characters
in their names that are not representable in the ISO-8859-1 character set.
In order to reproduce such names exactly as the author desires in the proceedings
and other printed matter, we provide a "Full Name" field. Here an author
can enter accents or other characters from national character sets. The
best way to provide this data is Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-7), however other
ISO-8859 sets are acceptable. Use the optional comments at the end of the
user record to give us specific instructions regarding your "Full Name"
and we will attempt to publish as specified.
The "Full Name" field is not to be used for entering multiple names
(see Q2).
For the majority of users, the "Name" and "Full Name" will have exactly
the same data. See Q12 for an explanation of the rest
of the user fields.
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Q11: What does it mean to 'login'
and how do I create an account?
Access to our system is controlled through a traditional login/password
mechanism. Program Committee Members and Chairs will have accounts created
for them. Authors must create their own accounts before submitting a paper.
If you have not yet created a user account on our 3DIM2001 Website, follow
these instructions:
Connect to the 3DIM2001 technical papers Website (http://www.vit.iit.nrc.ca/3DIM2001/WintanWeb).
Under the heading "For authors", click "Login here to create
a new user account". A blank user record will be immediately created
and a form will appear for you to fill in. Enter a userid of up to 12 alphanumeric
characters (upper or lower case, number, or underscore) that is not currently
being used by someone else and that you will be able to remember. Enter
a password made up of 5 or more characters, not all of which are alphabetic.
Forgotten passwords are by far the largest single source of e-mails to
our help desk. We will not be able to tell you your password, but with
proper verification we can assign you a new one. Please choose a password
that you will remember in three weeks or two months!
Upon acceptance of the form, the password file will be updated and you
will be forwarded to a second form requesting additional information about
you. This form is in the access controlled area; your browser will request
that you re-enter the userid and password that you have provided. With
some browsers and under certain conditions, you will not be offered this
opportunity to login and you will get an error message. If this happens
quit
your browser and restart it.
To fill in the the second form, follow the instructions for updating
user information in Q12.
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Q12: How do I update my user information
and what do the fields mean?
Upon creating a new user account, or choosing the "Edit user record
for XXX" URL, you will be presented with a form for adding or changing
user data. Please fill in all the requested blanks on the form and press
the "Submit Data" button. Some fields are mandatory and you
will receive a error message if they are not filled in. A word of explanation
on some of the fields follows:
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Your usual name (in ASCII or ISO-8859-1), first name first, initials (if
desired) and last name.
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It is very important that this correct. E-mail is our primary means of
communication.
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Always include your area code and your country code if outside North America.
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Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the proceedings. If there
are accents or special (non-ASCII) characters, this is the place to enter
them. (See Q10 for additional explanation.)
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Company or University name.
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Enter anything else you want to tell us here (notes about your full name,
a description of a particular problem you had in registering or a question
for the Organizing Committee). It is better, however, to mail problems
and questions to the 3DIM2001 technical papers e-mail account: Pierre.Boulanger@nrc.ca.
You may also change your password on this form. After you submit the form,
a confirmation page will appear. If you missed filling in required fields,
they will blink in red. Please go to the bottom of the page and enter the
required data. If all required fields were filled in, a blue "Update accepted"
message will appear. You can then go to your personal menu (the "Go
to main menu" URL at the top of the page), review your personal data
(middle of the page), or make additional changes (bottom of the page).
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Q15: How do I submit (upload) my
paper?
We encourage you to create a new paper record and fill in the required
fields (e.g., authors, title, track, etc.) as soon as possible. You may
edit this data later. Paper creation and editing URLs are at the bottom
of your personal menu. (See also Q1 and Q2.)
When your paper is ready:
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Login to the 3DIM2001 papers site.
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On your personal menu select 'Edit paper nnn' (where 'nnn' is your
paper).
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On the page entitled 'Edit paper submission record for nnn', about
halfway down, just before 'Contact Information' you will find a box labelled
'Paper Upload'. Beside the box, you should find a 'Browse'
button. Click on it.
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Locate the file to upload on your local machine, using the standard open
mechanism provided on your machine. Select 'Open'.
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The name of the file to be uploaded should now appear in the Upload box
(In this box you can also type the pathname, but it can sometimes be difficult
to get it right.) If you are happy with the record, press the 'Submit'
button at the bottom of the page. Your browser will now transmit the file
to us.
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Please note that only a single file can be uploaded. The
file you select should be a single file in PDF or PS format; or an archive
containing a group of files that compose your submission. We are prepared
to accept any of the popular Unix, Macintosh or Windows archive formats.
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Use the 'Download' button to test that the upload succeeded. In
most cases, if you can read it, we can read it. Someone will be testing
the downloads near the due date, but you can assume that 'no news is good
news'.
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Note that the name of the file on our Website is not the
same name as you provided. Your original name is visible (along with a
time stamp) in your paper record.
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The test download is very important. We have observed that
under certain conditions, some versions of Internet Explorer do not upload
properly. Specifically we have observed failures with version 3 on many
platforms and version 4.01 on some Macintosh computers. If you believe
your upload failed, please try another browser, if possible. If you
are still unsuccessful or if another browser is not available to you please
contact us at Pierre.Boulanger@nrc.ca
as soon as possible so we can make alternate arrangements. In all cases,
if you experience an upload failure, please send us message with the name
and exact version number of your browser and of your OS.
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If you encounter any problems or have any questions regarding this
site, send email to Pierre.Boulanger@nrc.ca
and someone will respond to you as soon as possible.
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