Author Instructions

• Papers must be submitted using the CMT, our online submission portal

  If you are a first-time user of CMT for DICTA and experiencing difficulty in finding the DICTA 2025 conference on CMT, you may find following the steps below helpful: Step 1: Log in to CMT, you will see “My Conferences” and “All Conferences” on top left panel. Step 2: If you click on "All Conferences" and go through all pages (by defalult only a few conferences are shown in a page) or filter with “The 26th 2025 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications”. Step 3: Once you select the conference you will find option for creating a new submission. Once created, next time you log in, you will find the conference in “My Conferences”.

• Format the manuscript using the format specified below and submit before the submission deadline listed in the Important Dates page.
• The submitted paper should be blind (none of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper).
• The contents of submitted papers must not have been previously published (or accepted for publication) in substantially similar form. Furthermore, the contents of submitted papers must not significantly overlap with the content of any paper currently under review or that will be submitted during the DICTA 2025 review period to any of the following: another conference, a workshop, or a journal. The DICTA 2025 Committee retains the right to exclude any papers in violation of these requirements.
• One of the authors from each accepted paper must register for the conference before the deadline given for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program.
• DICTA 2025 requires that each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore.

• Submitted papers may be up to 8 pages in length (including references/bibliography). There will be no extra page charges for DICTA 2025. Overlength papers will simply not be reviewed.
• Please ensure your paper is blind (none of the authors affiliations or names should be included or disclosed in the submitted paper).
• Prepare your submission using the IEEE manuscript template:
  • Windows users can download either Microsoft Word or Latex templates from the IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings page. You can also download the templates for initial DOUBLE BLIND submission from here: MS Word, LaTeX.
• Please use the Microsoft Word A4 template or the LaTeX template in conference A4 mode (Start with the conference template file bare_conf.tex and configure the output document with the line documentclass [conference,a4paper] {IEEEtran}). Please also ensure your remove authors' name and affiliations to meet the double blind review requirement for the initial submission. However, these information are needed for the camera-ready/final submission once the paper is notified as accepted.
• One of the authors from each accepted paper must register for the conference before the deadline given for author registration. Failure to register before the deadline will result in automatic withdrawal of your paper from the conference proceedings and program.
• DICTA 2025 requires that each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in-person at the conference site according to the schedule published. Any paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore.

Authors will be permitted to submit a document file up to 100MB (megabytes) in size.

DICTA reviewing is double blind, in that authors do not know the names of the area chairs or reviewers for their papers, and the area chairs/reviewers cannot, beyond a reasonable doubt, infer the names of the authors from the submission and the additional material. Do not provide information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs) and in the supplementary material (e.g., titles in the movies, or attached papers). Also, do not provide links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines may lead to rejection without review. If you need to cite any of your own papers that are being submitted concurrently to DICTA or another venue, you should (1) include anonymized versions of those papers in the supplementary material; (2) cite these anonymized papers; and (3) argue in the body of your paper why your DICTA submission is non-trivially different from these concurrent submissions.

Plagiarism consists of appropriating the words or results of another, without credit. DICTA 2025'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 on this webpage.

The goals of DICTA are to publish exciting new work for the first time and to avoid duplicating the effort of reviewers. By submitting a manuscript to DICTA, the 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 (defined as having 20 percent or more overlap) has been or will be registered or 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”. Under the above definition, arXiv preprints and university technical reports are not considered as publications. However, peer-reviewed workshop papers are considered as publications if their length is more than four pages (excluding references), even if they do not appear in a proceedings.

Note that a technical report (departmental, arXiv, etc.) version of the submission that is put up without any form of direct peer-review is NOT considered prior art and does NOT NEED to be cited in the submission; authors may cite such material, but cannot be penalized for not citing it.

We will be actively checking for double submissions.

Authors can submit supplementary material in the format of pdf, mp4, and avi. The size of each file shall not exceed 100 MB.

Your submitted paper will be visually inspected by a member of the technical program committee to assure that the document is readable and meets all formatting requirements. If errors are detected in your submitted file, you will be contacted to resolve the issue. If your paper passes inspection, it will be entered into the review process. At least two members of the technical program committee will review each submitted paper and rate it according to quality, relevance, and correctness. The conference technical committee will use these reviews to determine which papers will be accepted for presentation in the conference.

• Authors will be notified of paper acceptance or non-acceptance by email as close as possible to the published author notification date.
• The notification email will include comments from the reviewers. The short amount of time between paper acceptance decisions and the beginning of the publication process does not allow for a two-way discourse between the authors and the reviewers of a paper.