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Tips of Writing a L
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Using VS Code & Overleaf V2 as an Example
Ming-Ming Cheng
College of Computer Science, Nankai University
Course materials: https://mmcheng.net/writing/
2022/05/24
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Table of Contents
1 Overleaf for collaboration
2 Git and TortoiseGit
3 Grammarly
4 VS Code + TexLive
5 Using L
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6 Figures
7 Checklist
8 Rebuttal
9 Project page
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Using Overleaf V2 for Joint Working
See also the official tutorial
https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Tutorials
Online collaborative L
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Easy to work with many co-authors
Version control using git sync
Using GitHub for Git based version control
Comments discussion
Comments location, author name, time, and reply
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Avoid Meaningless Account Names
Fig.: Avoid such meaningless names during working with others, email communications, etc. Aca-
demic accounts have additional benefits/discount from commercial companies.
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TortoiseGit for Windows
Different icons means different status
Icons changes after sync using Git Clone.
Red: on disk version is newer, commit ASAP.
Green: on disk version is up to date.
Sync as ASAP to avoid version conflicts
Default commit to local repository, not online repository.
Following this order: commit, pull, push.
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Break lines to avoid version conflict
Avoid version conflict due to simultaneous editing
Git software discover changes line-by-line
Also makes the writing with pretty hierarchy
Fig.: Break lines ASAP.
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Pay Attention to Warnings in Overleaf
Warnings are often very helpful. Confirm every warning.
Fig.: Explicitly disable miss-alarms and use "add to dictionary" if you are confident.
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Grammarly
Prepare: Trying to get a clean pdf: https://www.lin-zheng.com/latex-pure/
Fig.: Remove figures, tables, big equations to fascinate pdf → docx.
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Start with a Sample
You don’t have to learn Latex carefully
Simply find some useful examples and start
You can find Latex source of many vision papers here:
https://mmcheng.net/salobj/ or https://www.overleaf.com/read/nkyrytybmzcm
Fig.: A sample paper with online Latex editing.
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Use L
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More examples in https://www.overleaf.com/read/zqttbzknmjrz
Use \newcommand{\cmd}[]{#1}
\newcommand{\figref}[1]{Fig. \ref{#1}}
\newcommand{\tabref}[1]{Tab. \ref{#1}}
\newcommand{\eqnref}[1]{Eq. (\ref{#1})}
\newcommand{\secref}[1]{Sec. \ref{#1}}
\newcommand{\sArt}[1]{state-of-the-art∼}
\newcommand{\AddImg}[1]{\includegraphics[height=.2\linewidth][#1]}
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Keep proper file size for sharing
Fig.: The attention maps essentially has low res-
olution. Resize the length to 100px.
Fig.: Use figure compression in Visio to maintain
proper file size.
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Use Strings for Journal/Conference Names
Use @String
@string(CVPR = "IEEE CVPR")
@string(CVPR= "IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recog.")
@string(CVPRW= "IEEE Conf. Comput. Vis. Pattern Recog. Worksh.")
@string(NIPS= "Adv. Neural Inform. Process. Syst.")
@string(IJCV = "Int. J. Comput. Vis.")
@string(PAMI = "IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.")
%More examples in https://www.overleaf.com/read/pcznwnthsprs
@inproceedings {arbelaez2014multiscale,
title="Multiscale combinatorial grouping",
author="Marques, Ferran and Malik, Jitendra",
booktitle=CVPR,
pages="328–335",
year="2014"
}
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Reference - Formats
Consist.: Use @String to ensure consistency.
Types: Use “@inproceedings” for conference, and “@Article” for journal.
Warning: Don’t directly copy a bibtex from Google Sch.
Author: Use “and” instead of “,” to separate names.
Priority: Important: Journal > conference > arXiv.
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Avoid Descriptions without Actual Content
Our method is better than Wang et al. [1].
‘is better’ → ‘produces more accurate results’.
We propose a novel method XXX.
‘propose’ imply ‘novel’.
We propose an essential XXX method . . .
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Checklist: limited novelty
Limited novelty, straightforward extension of xxx.
Fig.: Explain why our elegant/simple approach is not straightforward/naive [Cheng et al.,
PAMI’15].
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Checklist: missing experiments to clarify
The performance gain could
also come from ...
due to ...
come with the cost of ...
how well does this and that ...
sensitive to key parameters ...
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Checklist: good practice
Source code will be released upon paper acceptance.
Discuss of the limitations.
Theoretical proof regarding what could (not) happen.
Analysis the computational/memory cost.
Try to keep your ideas SHARP.
Avoid defining many unnecessary terms.
Be fair (at lease in form).
Verified every design decision (try to keep simple).
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Analysis reviewer comments
Keep claim and make a rebuttal
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What is peer review?
How to rebuttal?
Does rebuttal matter?
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https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/104298923
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Analysis reviewer comments
Save comments. No access after rebuttal period!
Suggestion: size 5, Calibri, single line space, no space before&after
paragraph.
Fig.: Highlight key issues with bold&red for better printing.
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