#  LaTeX Author Guidelines for 3DV Proceedings

First Author
Institution1
Institution1 address
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Second Author
Institution2
First line of institution2 address
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
###### Abstract

The ABSTRACT is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of the
left-hand column, below the author and affiliation information. Use the word
“Abstract” as the title, in 12-point Times, boldface type, centered relative
to the column, initially capitalized. The abstract is to be in 10-point,
single-spaced type. Leave two blank lines after the Abstract, then begin the
main text. Look at previous 3DV abstracts to get a feel for style and length.

##  1 Introduction

Please follow the steps outlined below when submitting your manuscript to the
IEEE Computer Society Press. This style guide now has several important
modifications (for example, you are no longer warned against the use of sticky
tape to attach your artwork to the paper), so all authors should read this new
version.

###  1.1 Language

All manuscripts must be in English.

###  1.2 Dual submission

By submitting a manuscript to 3DV, the authors assert that it has not been
previously published in substantially similar form. Furthermore, no paper
which contains significant overlap with the contributions of this paper either
has been or will be submitted during the 3DV 2022 review period to either a
journal or any conference or any workshop. Papers violating this condition
will be rejected.

If there are papers that may appear to the reviewers to violate this
condition, then it is your responsibility to: (1) cite these papers
(preserving anonymity as described in Section 1.6 below), (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.

###  1.3 Paper length

3DV papers should be no longer than 8 pages, excluding references. The
references section will not be included in the page count, and there is no
limit on the length of the references section. Overlength papers will simply
not be reviewed. This includes papers where the margins and formatting are
deemed to have been significantly altered from those laid down by this style
guide. Note that this LaTeX guide already sets figure captions and references
in a smaller font. The reason such papers will not be reviewed is that there
is no provision for supervised revisions of manuscripts. The reviewing process
cannot determine the suitability of the paper for presentation in eight pages
if it is reviewed in eleven.

###  1.4 The ruler

The LaTeX style defines a printed ruler which should be present in the version
submitted for review. The ruler is provided in order that reviewers may
comment on particular lines in the paper without circumlocution. If you are
preparing a document using a non-LaTeX document preparation system, please
arrange for an equivalent ruler to appear on the final output pages. The
presence or absence of the ruler should not change the appearance of any other
content on the page. The camera ready copy should not contain a ruler. (LaTeX
users may uncomment the `\threedvfinalcopy` command in the document preamble.)
Reviewers: note that the ruler measurements do not align well with lines in
the paper — this turns out to be very difficult to do well when the paper
contains many figures and equations, and, when done, looks ugly. Just use
fractional references (e.g. this line is $097.5$), although in most cases one
would expect that the approximate location will be adequate.

###  1.5 Mathematics

Please number all of your sections and displayed equations. It is important
for readers to be able to refer to any particular equation. Just because you
didn’t refer to it in the text doesn’t mean some future reader might not need
to refer to it. It is cumbersome to have to use circumlocutions like “the
equation second from the top of page 3 column 1”. (Note that the ruler will
not be present in the final copy, so is not an alternative to equation
numbers). All authors will benefit from reading Mermin’s description of how to
write mathematics: http://www.pamitc.org/documents/mermin.pdf.

###  1.6 Blind review

Many authors misunderstand the concept of anonymizing for blind review. Blind
review does not mean that one must remove citations to one’s own work—in fact
it is often impossible to review a paper unless the previous citations are
known and available.

Blind review means that you do not use the words “my” or “our” when citing
previous work. That is all. (But see below for techreports)

Saying “this builds on the work of Lucy Smith [1]” does not say that you are
Lucy Smith, it says that you are building on her work. If you are Smith and
Jones, do not say “as we show in [7]”, say “as Smith and Jones show in [7]”
and at the end of the paper, include reference 7 as you would any other cited
work.

An example of a bad paper just asking to be rejected:

> An analysis of the frobnicatable foo filter.
>
> In this paper we present a performance analysis of our previous paper [1],
> and show it to be inferior to all previously known methods. Why the previous
> paper was accepted without this analysis is beyond me.
>
> [1] Removed for blind review

An example of an acceptable paper:

> An analysis of the frobnicatable foo filter.
>
> In this paper we present a performance analysis of the paper of Smith _et
> al_. [1], and show it to be inferior to all previously known methods. Why
> the previous paper was accepted without this analysis is beyond me.
>
> [1] Smith, L and Jones, C. “The frobnicatable foo filter, a fundamental
> contribution to human knowledge”. Nature 381(12), 1-213.

If you are making a submission to another conference at the same time, which
covers similar or overlapping material, you may need to refer to that
submission in order to explain the differences, just as you would if you had
previously published related work. In such cases, include the anonymized
parallel submission [Authors12] as additional material and cite it as

> [1] Authors. “The frobnicatable foo filter”, F&G 2022 Submission ID 324,
> Supplied as additional material fg324.pdf.

Finally, you may feel you need to tell the reader that more details can be
found elsewhere, and refer them to a technical report. For conference
submissions, the paper must stand on its own, and not require the reviewer to
go to a techreport for further details. Thus, you may say in the body of the
paper “further details may be found in [Authors12b]”. Then submit the
techreport as additional material. Again, you may not assume the reviewers
will read this material.

Sometimes your paper is about a problem which you tested using a tool which is
widely known to be restricted to a single institution. For example, let’s say
it’s 1969, you have solved a key problem on the Apollo lander, and you believe
that the 3DV70 audience would like to hear about your solution. The work is a
development of your celebrated 1968 paper entitled “Zero-g frobnication: How
being the only people in the world with access to the Apollo lander source
code makes us a wow at parties”, by Zeus _et al_.

You can handle this paper like any other. Don’t write “We show how to improve
our previous work [Anonymous, 1968]. This time we tested the algorithm on a
lunar lander [name of lander removed for blind review]”. That would be silly,
and would immediately identify the authors. Instead write the following:

> We describe a system for zero-g frobnication. This system is new because it
> handles the following cases: A, B. Previous systems [Zeus et al. 1968]
> didn’t handle case B properly. Ours handles it by including a foo term in
> the bar integral.
>
> …
>
> The proposed system was integrated with the Apollo lunar lander, and went
> all the way to the moon, don’t you know. It displayed the following
> behaviours which show how well we solved cases A and B: …

As you can see, the above text follows standard scientific convention, reads
better than the first version, and does not explicitly name you as the
authors. A reviewer might think it likely that the new paper was written by
Zeus _et al_., but cannot make any decision based on that guess. He or she
would have to be sure that no other authors could have been contracted to
solve problem B.

FAQ: Are acknowledgements OK? No. Leave them for the final copy.

Figure 1: Example of caption. It is set in Roman so that mathematics (always
set in Roman: $B\sin A=A\sin B$) may be included without an ugly clash.

###  1.7 Miscellaneous

Compare the following:
`$conf_a$` $conf_{a}$ `$\mathit{conf}_a$` $\mathit{conf}_{a}$
See The TeXbook, p165.

The space after _e.g_., meaning “for example”, should not be a sentence-ending
space. So _e.g_. is correct, e.g. is not. The provided `\eg` macro takes care
of this.

When citing a multi-author paper, you may save space by using “et alia”,
shortened to “ _et al_.” (not “et. al.” as “et” is a complete word.) However,
use it only when there are three or more authors. Thus, the following is
correct: “ Frobnication has been trendy lately. It was introduced by Alpher
[Alpher02], and subsequently developed by Alpher and Fotheringham-Smythe
[Alpher03], and Alpher _et al_. [Alpher04].”

This is incorrect: “… subsequently developed by Alpher _et al_. [Alpher03] …”
because reference [Alpher03] has just two authors. If you use the `\etal`
macro provided, then you need not worry about double periods when used at the
end of a sentence as in Alpher _et al_.

Figure 2: Example of a short caption, which should be centered.

##  2 Formatting your paper

All text must be in a two-column format. The total allowable width of the text
area is $6\frac{7}{8}$ inches (17.5 cm) wide by $8\frac{7}{8}$ inches (22.54
cm) high. Columns are to be $3\frac{1}{4}$ inches (8.25 cm) wide, with a
$\frac{5}{16}$ inch (0.8 cm) space between them. The main title (on the first
page) should begin 1.0 inch (2.54 cm) from the top edge of the page. The
second and following pages should begin 1.0 inch (2.54 cm) from the top edge.
On all pages, the bottom margin should be 1-1/8 inches (2.86 cm) from the
bottom edge of the page for $8.5\times 11$-inch paper; for A4 paper,
approximately 1-5/8 inches (4.13 cm) from the bottom edge of the page.

###  2.1 Margins and page numbering

All printed material, including text, illustrations, and charts, must be kept
within a print area 6-7/8 inches (17.5 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.54 cm)
high.

###  2.2 Type-style and fonts

Wherever Times is specified, Times Roman may also be used. If neither is
available on your word processor, please use the font closest in appearance to
Times to which you have access.

MAIN TITLE. Center the title 1-3/8 inches (3.49 cm) from the top edge of the
first page. The title should be in Times 14-point, boldface type. Capitalize
the first letter of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs; do not
capitalize articles, coordinate conjunctions, or prepositions (unless the
title begins with such a word). Leave two blank lines after the title.

AUTHOR NAME(s) and AFFILIATION(s) are to be centered beneath the title and
printed in Times 12-point, non-boldface type. This information is to be
followed by two blank lines.

The ABSTRACT and MAIN TEXT are to be in a two-column format.

MAIN TEXT. Type main text in 10-point Times, single-spaced. Do NOT use double-
spacing. All paragraphs should be indented 1 pica (approx. 1/6 inch or 0.422
cm). Make sure your text is fully justified—that is, flush left and flush
right. Please do not place any additional blank lines between paragraphs.

Figure and table captions should be 9-point Roman type as in Figures 1 and 2.
Short captions should be centred.

Callouts should be 9-point Helvetica, non-boldface type. Initially capitalize
only the first word of section titles and first-, second-, and third-order
headings.

FIRST-ORDER HEADINGS. (For example, 1\. Introduction) should be Times 12-point
boldface, initially capitalized, flush left, with one blank line before, and
one blank line after.

SECOND-ORDER HEADINGS. (For example, 1.1. Database elements) should be Times
11-point boldface, initially capitalized, flush left, with one blank line
before, and one after. If you require a third-order heading (we discourage
it), use 10-point Times, boldface, initially capitalized, flush left, preceded
by one blank line, followed by a period and your text on the same line.

###  2.3 Footnotes

Please use footnotes111This is what a footnote looks like. It often distracts
the reader from the main flow of the argument. sparingly. Indeed, try to avoid
footnotes altogether and include necessary peripheral observations in the text
(within parentheses, if you prefer, as in this sentence). If you wish to use a
footnote, place it at the bottom of the column on the page on which it is
referenced. Use Times 8-point type, single-spaced.

###  2.4 References

List and number all bibliographical references in 9-point Times, single-
spaced, at the end of your paper. When referenced in the text, enclose the
citation number in square brackets, for example [Authors12]. Where
appropriate, include the name(s) of editors of referenced books.

Method | Frobnability
---|---
Theirs | Frumpy
Yours | Frobbly
Ours | Makes one’s heart Frob
Table 1: Results. Ours is better.

###  2.5 Illustrations, graphs, and photographs

All graphics should be centered. Please ensure that any point you wish to make
is resolvable in a printed copy of the paper. Resize fonts in figures to match
the font in the body text, and choose line widths which render effectively in
print. Many readers (and reviewers), even of an electronic copy, will choose
to print your paper in order to read it. You cannot insist that they do
otherwise, and therefore must not assume that they can zoom in to see tiny
details on a graphic.

When placing figures in LaTeX, it’s almost always best to use
`\includegraphics`, and to specify the figure width as a multiple of the line
width as in the example below

       \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx} ...
       \includegraphics[width=0.8\linewidth]
                       {myfile.eps}

###  2.6 Color

Color is valuable, and will be visible to readers of the electronic copy.
However ensure that, when printed on a monochrome printer, no important
information is lost by the conversion to grayscale.

##  3 Final copy

You must include your signed IEEE copyright release form when you submit your
finished paper. We MUST have this form before your paper can be published in
the proceedings.