Authors FAQs

About Submitting Papers

Q. Can we please have an extension on the deadline?
A. YES, subject to the decision of the conference organizing committee.
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 on 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 colour 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 colour images on the screen. Do be warned though that many reviews still like to read printed papers and not all have access to high-end colour printers. Please make sure to comment in the paper to request the reviewers to see the colour online copy.
Q. What is FETiCON 2024 policy on DUAL SUBMISSIONS?
A. Please read the dual/double submission paragraph on the submission page.
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 FETiCON 2024?
A. Please read the dual/double submission paragraph on the submission page.
Q. Does a document on GitHub or other open repositories count as a publication, and therefore is ineligible for review and publication at FETiCON 2024?
A. Submissions to GitHub and similar repositories cannot be rejected and are accepted by default before any “review” can take place on such platforms. Given definitions in the dual/double submission paragraph on the submission page, 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 FETiCON 2024 policies?
A. No. Authors must properly anonymize the written submission as per the guidelines.
Q. Can I promote my paper in the press or on social media?
A. As stated in the instruction in submission, 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 an FETiCON submission.
Authors must not:
• Talk to the media about their work as “in submission to FETiCON”
• Make any posts to social media or elsewhere that can be linked to a specific FETiCON 2024 submission (e.g., mentioning the title of the submission or details and content and saying that it’s a FETiCON submission)
However, authors may:
• Talk about their work in a presentation without saying it’s submitted to FETiCON 2024.
• Submit to arXiv without mentioning FETiCON 2024. However, 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 to the double-blind review policy, you can report the results of other participants of the challenge 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 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 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 the 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 FETiCON 2024 Review Process CONFIDENTIAL?
A. YES, FETiCON 2024 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 FETiCON 2024 Reviews Double BLIND or Single BLIND?
A. FETiCON reviewing is Double BLIND, in that authors do not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgements (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 the submitted code need to be anonymized?
A. FETiCON 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 with a non-anonymized version or link to a public github repository.
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.