Talk on Things you should know before submitting your next paper

A two-part talk on

“Things you should know before submitting your next paper”

by

Professor Alessandro Foi, Tampere University (TAU), Finland

Former Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

on April 17, 2025 (Thursday)

from 2 PM to 5 PM (coffee break at 3.15 PM)

Venue: Multimedia Classroom (MMCR), EE Department

Hosts: Prof. Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (EE) and Prof. Soma Biswas (EE)

1) Publishing process; Ethics and Etiquette : “Things you should know before submitting your next paper”

The lecture is particularly addressed to new authors with little experience about the publication workflow and principles, and it is focused on the dos and don’ts for successfully publishing a technical paper. It offers an overview of the peer-review process and discusses the ethics and etiquette standards that authors are expected to uphold and that reviewers and editors are looking for. The lecture is based on material used at IEEE training events for authors and volunteers, supplemented by additional material by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); it discusses general principles followed by various publishers and communities in science and engineering.

Topics include: choice of the publication venue, framing of the contribution with respect to prior art and literature, authorship and acknowledgment, fair reporting of own and others’ results, appropriate disclosure and referencing to own previous work, appropriate description and citing of prior work, plagiarism, duplicate submissions, inappropriate replication, and bibliometric manipulation, author’s responsibilities.

It is extremely rare (though not impossible) that a manuscript submitted to a top-tier journal gets accepted “as is” after the review of the original submission. Most often the manuscript goes through an iterative process, where editors interact with authors and reviewers with the goal of revising the manuscript to make it suitable for publication in the journal. The lecture discusses the manuscript revision process, highlighting the editorial perspective and the typical mistakes that authors make. Participants will learn how to manage and execute a productive and efficient revision, ultimately maximizing the chances that the revised manuscript will get accepted, and in fewer iterations.

Alessandro Foi is a Professor of Signal Processing at Tampere University (TAU), Finland. He leads the Signal and Image Restoration group and he is the director of TAU Imaging Research Platform. He is also the CTO of Noiseless Imaging, a company specialized in noise-removal, restoration, and enhancement technology for the imaging industry.

He received the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, in 2001, the Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the Politecnico di Milano in 2005, and the D.Sc.Tech. degree in Signal Processing from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2007. His research interests include mathematical and statistical methods for signal processing, functional and harmonic analysis, and computational modeling of the human visual system. His work focuses on spatially adaptive algorithms for the restoration and enhancement of digital images, on noise modeling for imaging devices, and on the optimal design of statistical transformations for the stabilization, normalization, and analysis of random data. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to image restoration and noise modeling.

He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences, and the IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging.