General Information

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception publishes papers of significant and lasting value in all subfields of computer science, provided they incorporate a substantial perceptual component.

Submission Procedure

Electronic submissions are required through the ACM Manuscript Central interface. In case of extreme hardship implied by this requirement, contact one of the Editors in Chief, Erik Reinhard at reinhard@cs.ucf.edu or Heinrich Bülthoff at heinrich.buelthoff@tuebingen.mpg.de to discuss alternatives. It is the responsibility of the author to specify that the submission is intended for Transactions on Applied Perception and is to be subjected to the Transactions on Applied Perception reviewing process. Transactions on Applied Perception will be printed in color at no expense to the author.

Formatting

For formatting, the use of LaTeX is highly encouraged. A style file for ACM Transactions is available, along with instructions for preparing articles for the ACM with LaTeX. The files relevant for formatting papers in LaTeX are:

• Formatting instructions
• acmtrans2m.cls LaTeX style file (use 'acmtap' as optional argument to the documentclass command)
• acmtrans.bst bibliography file
• A template LaTeX file
• MS Word style file and instructions
• ACM Computing Classification System
• Instructions for using the ACM Computing Classification System
• ACM Journal Editor's manual (contains links to various ACM publications policies)

Style Guidelines

Please see and follow online guidelines for Electronically Submitting Accepted Articles to ACM Journals.

Numbered section headings should be used to facilitate readability. Language which reflects prejudice (e.g., sexism, racism) should be avoided. The introduction should clearly describe previous research on related topics. Care should be taken to specify clearly all procedures essential to the research. When a paper concerns a new piece of software, comparisons to similar programs, benchmarks, and a discussion of limitations should be included.

Generic names are preferred to specific product names. However, when they imply essential aspects of a procedure, as when a specific product has unique features, the product names may be included for clarity. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to quote long passages (60 words or more) from any material that appeared in a non-ACM publication.

• Title and Abstract
  Use a specific and informative title. Typically, a title might contain 6 to 12 words. Avoid special symbols and formulas in titles unless essential to indicate content. Authors' names should be given without titles or degrees, along with the name of the sponsoring organization. Current mailing addresses, including email addresses, should be given in a footnote. The abstract should be 150 to 200 words long and should consist of short, direct, and complete sentences. The abstract should state the objectives of the work, summarize the results, and give the principal conclusions. It should also indicate whether the focus is on theoretical developments or on practical questions and whether subject matter or method is emphasized. Avoid starting with the words: This paper. Work planned but not done should not be described in the abstract. Because abstracts are often extracted from a paper and used separately, avoid the use of the first person, display mathematics, and citations.



• Aids for Classification
  Categories and Subject Descriptors should be selected from the classification system used by Computing Reviews (CR). The latest version of the ACM Computing Classification System may be found online at http://www.acm.org/class/, or in the January 1994 issue of the Communications of the ACM, or may be obtained by addressing a request to Computing Reviews at ACM headquarters or from acm.org. Use as many descriptors as applicable.
  
  General Terms are those common to more than one area of computing and are chosen from the fixed list that accompanies the CR classification system.
  
  Additional Keywords and Phrases consist of English language words that may also be useful for indexing. These may be synonymous with terms in the classification system, may be more specific than the subject descriptors, or may not be covered by the existing system at all. In this last case, use specific terms whose meaning is generally accepted in the computing community. Do not use broad, catchall terms (such as computer, system, or automatic) and do not use private terms or acronyms.



• Mathematical and Symbolic Expressions
  Short mathematical equations and other expressions in the text should be run in: (instead of each being displayed on a separate line). Avoid exponents having multiple levels of superscription: e sup {x sup 2 + y sup 2}, use exp (x sup 2 + y sup 2). Likewise, avoid the use of built-up fractions in the text. For example, instead of {1} over {italic {n}}, use either 1 / italic {n} or the negative exponent form italic {n} sup -1. In display matter, however, built-up fractions are preferred for clarity. Likewise, avoid small-type mathematical expressions centered above or below arrows.
  
  Equations that are referred to later in the text should be numbered sequentially and referred to, for instance, as Eq. 1. Do not number equations that are not referred to in the text.



• Statistics
  For empirical studies, the procedure should be presented in sufficient detail to be replicated by other researchers. Statistical tests should be included to support empirical claims. When reporting statistics, the name of the statistic, the degrees of freedom, the value obtained, and the p-value should be reported, e.g., F(3,65) = 4.83, p < 0.01.



• Figures
  Figures include graphs of results, schematic drawings, samples of output, screen, and photographs of special equipment or displays. Each figure should be numbered and have a caption. Upon publication, figures will be reduced to approximately 12.7 cm (5 inches) in width. Care should be taken to ensure that the legends and labels within the figure are large enough to be readable after they are reduced. For electronic submissions, Postscript copies of the figures should be included. For final submissions on paper, high quality (at least 600 dpi) figures should be included. Color prints can be reproduced.



• Citations and the Reference List
  Relevant publications accessible to the public (i.e., articles in standard journals and open conference proceedings) should be cited. References cited in the text should include the last name of the author(s) and the year of publication, for example [Bush 1945] or [Salton and McGill 1983]. When the citation(s) includes three or more authors, only the first author should be mentioned by name (e.g., [Foley et al. 1990]). A trailing lower case letter should distinguish multiple papers by the same author(s) published during a single year, for example [Winograd and Flores 1987a]. Multiple citations in the same sentence should be enclosed within brackets and separated by semicolons, for example, [Halasz 1988; VanRijsbergen 1975].
  
  The reference list should be arranged alphabetically by the author's last name, followed by the date. In the case of multiple listings by a single author, the earliest publication appears first. When an author is listed both as a single author and as a senior author with coauthor(s), all of the single-author listings precede the multiple-author listings, with the latter arranged alphabetically by last name of successive authors. Again, chronological order is used for multiple papers by the same set of authors. The lowercase letter used in the citation to distinguish multiple papers by the same author(s) in the same year should be displayed in the reference list.
  
  References to items in periodicals: These should take the form: author, title, journal, volume number, date, and pages. Author(s) should be given last name first; likewise for editors, with the name followed by (Ed.). The author's name always ends with a period, either the period that follows the initial or a period specifically for that purpose. This is followed by the year. In the title, only the first word and proper names (or their derivatives) should be capitalized, and the title should end with a period. For example:
  
  SCHWARTZ, J.T. 1980 Ultracomputers, ACM Trans. Program Lang. Syst. 2, 4, 484-521.
  
  References to reports or proceedings:
  
  Author(s) and title - same as for periodicals. This is followed by the report number, source, date, and pages.
  
  References to books: Author(s) - same as above. Title - all principal words start with a capital letter. The title is followed by the publisher, city, year, and any specific chapters or pages.



• Art
  Art for publication, whether they are black & white or color, must follow the following guidelines:
  
  With line art, the preferred format is .eps. However, since there are many flavors of .eps, the one we really prefer is the one created with Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator eps seems to be the most stable and is the standard of the industry.
  
  Minimum linewidth for all line art is 0.025 inch. Anything thiner than this doesn't image well on screen as well as on the pdf.
  
  With photographs, the preferred format is .tif. Many authors send us files in .jpeg or .gif which we end up converting to .tif with our Adobe Photoshop software.
  
  Resolution: We insist on getting all art, whether they are line art or photograph, in at least 300 dpi resolution. This is simply to provide us with a HiRes file that is double the typical printer's maximum resolution of 133 linescreen.
  
  All color art should be set to CMYK rather than RGB. When we receive art in RGB we end up having to convert them to CMYK, but since we do not have the color reference, we simply convert them with no regard to color fidelity. Those author who feel that his red should be 100% red, should definitely make sure that his art is in CMYK.
  
  Please avoid the use of "exotic" file format which is not, or not yet, widely supported, such as .png or .xbm. They are difficult to convert. Also, avoid the use of .bmp, which is the bit-mapped file format, at all cost, since it tends to reproduce and image poorly.

Copyright

• Copyright and Use Agreement
  Please see ACM copyright policy information online at:
  
  http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyrights.html
  
  If the paper is acceptable after refereeing, each author will be asked to sign an ACM copyright form, either transferring copyright to ACM or declaring that the paper is part of government work. Copyright transfer forms may be obtained online at:
  
  http://www.acm.org/pubs/copyright_form.html or from copyrightforms@acm.org.
  
  The return of the signed form completes the acceptance process. Authors retain liberal rights to material published by ACM. Further information may be obtained from the office of the ACM Director of Publications.
  
  Abstracting of material in ACM publications is permitted with credit to the source. Libraries are permitted to photocopy beyond the limits of U.S. Copyright Law, for private use of patrons, those articles that carry a code at the bottom of the first page, provided the per-copy fee indicated in the code is paid through the Copyright Clearance Center (P.O. Box 675, Schenectady, NY 12301, USA). Instructors are permitted to photocopy isolated articles for noncommercial classroom use without fee.


• Proofs
  The first author will receive either galley or page proofs; these should be checked and returned promptly. Although the ACM staff copyedits manuscripts, the author is solely responsible for marking errors. Substantive changes should be approved by an Editor.
  

Upon Acceptance