UKIVA Director, Don Braggins, has been invited to give a tutorial at the Institute of Engineering Technology’s Visual Information Engineering 2008 Conference to be held in Xi'an, China, July 29 – August 1, 2008. The tutorial is entitled: “A Short Guide to 'Do's and Dont's' in Order to Ensure Acceptance of Your Paper in ‘Optical Engineering’”.
Don Braggins was appointed as an Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed SPIE publication ‘Optical Engineering’ in 2005. Don’s responsibilities involve the assignment of reviewers for papers in the field and the decision on whether to accept, decline or request revision of the papers based on the reviews. In the calendar year 2007, 66 papers in the category 'Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition' were submitted to the journal and of these, just half were accepted. In his tutorial, Don will describe how the review process is implemented; what makes a paper likely to be accepted (or rejected), and what steps can be taken to ensure that a minimum of revision is required before acceptance.
The 5th IET Visual Information Engineering 2008 Conference will address fundamental elements of image, video and graphics research and development. Key technical areas include the growing convergence of computer graphics and computer vision/image processing which is an increasingly important area in commercial multimedia applications development.
The UKIVA has strong links with the IET, with both Don Braggins and UKIVA Chairman, Mark Williamson, being members of the IET’s Visual Information Engineering committee.
