Introduction of New Editor-in-Chief
Introduction of New Editor-in-Chief
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10.1109/tpami.2009.7
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2009
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D. Kriegman
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D. Kriegman
我很高兴地宣布，根据搜索委员会的建议，IEEE计算机学会主席已任命拉明扎比教授为IEEE模式分析和机器智能学报（TPAMI）的新任主编（EIC）。Zabih博士以其对离散优化技术及其在计算机视觉和医学成像中的应用的研究而闻名。他带来了TPAMI的领导经验，作为IEEE计算机视觉和模式识别会议的项目联合主席，并作为客座编辑，然后作为TPAMI的副编辑（AE）。多年来，我与拉明密切合作，看到他对这个领域有着广阔的视野，他有非常高的标准，他公正地裁决事务，他把社区的需求放在首位。总的来说，我对TPAMI在他的领导下的方向和成功抱有很高的期望。请和我一起祝贺扎比博士的任命。他的简历在下面。Zabih博士在TPAMI健康状况良好时加入该组织，2007年提交了850份申请，预计2008年将提交915份。录取率约为24%。一般来说，论文通过审查的过程很快，从提交到第一次决定的平均时间为三个月，到最终决定的平均时间为六个月。这与主要会议的审查周期相比是有利的。然而，在期刊上有更大的差异，因为没有严格的截止日期，大多数被接受的论文都会经过修改和第二轮审查。虽然定义学术期刊重要性的指标存在争议，但最广泛使用的是影响因子，即前两年发表的论文在给定年份被出版物引用的平均次数。根据Thomson ISI跟踪的出版物，TPAMI论文在2007年被引用了16，492次，2007年的影响因子为3.579。TPAMI在所有IEEE出版物中具有第二高的影响因子;它在电气工程中排名第二，在人工智能中排名第二，在计算机科学中排名第七。2008年12月31日，标志着我作为TPAMI主任工程师的任期结束，也标志着我在TPAMI编辑委员会连续服务了近12年。我要感谢我的前辈们，他们帮助我创建了一本令人印象深刻的期刊，我有幸培养了这本期刊。我第一次被任命为TPAMI AE在Rangachar Kasturi教授的领导下，继续在Kevin Bowyer教授的领导下，然后在拉马Chellappa教授的领导下担任副主编。在Kasturi教授的指导下，我学会了如何公平有效地管理论文的评审过程。在鲍耶教授的指导下，我了解到拥有一个有效的流程和员工是多么重要。在Chellappa教授的指导下，我学会了如何随着提交数量的飙升而扩展整个事情。作为EIC，有三个人与我合作得最密切，他们值得特别提及和感谢。首先，当我成为EIC时，我选择了大卫弗利特作为副主编，他一直是TPAMI不可或缺的一部分，从制定战略决策到灭火。看到TPAMI提交的稿件增长到900多篇，以及机器学习对TPAMI越来越重要，我很高兴Zoubin Gharamani接受了第二位AEIC的任命。你们俩都很棒。操作的顺利和审查时间的减少在很大程度上要归功于伊莱恩斯蒂芬森。从第一次上传到最终决定，每篇论文要发送30-40封电子邮件。Elaine的严肃态度和对程序的承诺使提交第一次决定的时间从2003年的7个月减少到今天的3个月。在过去的一年里，计算机协会发生了两次引人注目的转变：Jennifer Carruth取代Suzanne瓦格纳担任同行评审主管，Kathy圣玛利亚取代Julie Hicks担任负责标题的高级制作编辑;他们的标题表明了他们对TPAMI的重要作用和他们的支持，我们对此表示感谢。TPAMI的评审过程中投入了大量的志愿者工作，粗略估计，每年在评审过程中花费的时间超过34，000小时（相当于17个人年）（基于三次评审，每次评审8小时，重大修订，副编辑工作10小时等）。我真的很感谢审稿人的辛勤工作和副编辑的奉献精神，他们必须做出非常困难的决定，并与作者一起改进他们的论文。最后，我要感谢我的妻子Teresa和孩子Bryce和Dylan，感谢他们的耐心和宽容，让我能够专注于TPAMI，经常到深夜。
I am pleased to announce that, upon the recommendation of a search committee, the President of the IEEE Computer Society has appointed Professor Ramin Zabih as the new Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI). Dr. Zabih is well known for his research on discrete optimization techniques and their application to computer vision and medical imaging. He brings to TPAMI leadership experience as a program cochair of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and as a guest editor and then as an associate editor (AE) of TPAMI. Over the years, I have worked closely with Ramin and seen that he has a broad view of the fi eld, that he has very high standards, that he adjudicates matters fairly, and that he puts the needs of the community in the forefront. Taken together, I have very high expectations for the direction and success of TPAMI under his leadership. Please join me in congratulating Dr. Zabih on his appointment. His brief bio appears below. Dr. Zabih joins TPAMI when it is in good health with 850 submissions in 2007 and 915 projected for 2008. The acceptance rate is about 24 percent. Papers in general are getting through the review process quickly with an average time of three months from submission to fi rst decision and six months to a fi nal decision. This compares favorably with the review cycle for major conferences. However, there is greater variance at a journal since there isn’t a hard deadline and most accepted papers undergo revisions and a second round of review. While metrics defi ning the importance of an academic journal are contentious, the most widely used one is the impact factor, which is the average number of times papers published in the two previous years are referenced by publications in the given year. Based on the publications tracked by Thomson ISI, TPAMI papers were cited 16,492 times in 2007 and the impact factor in 2007 was 3.579. TPAMI has the second highest impact factor of all IEEE publications; it ranks second in all of electrical engineering, second in artifi cial intelligence, and seventh in all of computer science. December 31, 2008 marks the end of my term as the EIC of TPAMI and of nearly 12 years of continuous service on the TPAMI Editorial Board. I’d like to thank my predecessors who helped create an impressive journal that I have had the privilege of cultivating. I was fi rst appointed as a TPAMI AE under Professor Rangachar Kasturi, continued under Professor Kevin Bowyer, and then served as Associate Editor-in-Chief under Professor Rama Chellappa. Under Professor Kasturi, I learned how to fairly and effectively manage the review process of a paper. Under Professor Bowyer, I learned how critical it is to have an effective process and staff. Under Professor Chellappa, I learned to how to scale the whole thing as the number of submissions soared. There are three people that I have worked most closely with as EIC and who deserve special mention and thanks. First, when I became EIC, I selected David Fleet as the Associate Editor-in-Chief and he has been integral part of TPAMI from making strategic decisions to putting out fi res. Seeing both the growth in TPAMI submissions to more than 900 manuscripts and the increasing importance of Machine Learning to TPAMI, I was pleased when Zoubin Gharamani accepted the appointment as a second AEIC. You have both been amazing. The smooth operations and reduction in review time can largely be attributed to Elaine Stephenson. From its fi rst upload to fi nal decision, 30-40 e-mails are sent for every paper. Elaine’s no-nonsense approach and commitment to process have resulted in a reduction of the time of a submission to fi rst decision from seven months in 2003 to three months today. There have been two notable transitions over the past year at the Computer Society: Jennifer Carruth replaced Suzanne Wagner as Peer Review Supervisor and Kathy Santa Maria replaced Julie Hicks as the Senior Production Editor in charge of the title; their titles indicate their important roles to TPAMI and their support, which is gratefully appreciated. A huge amount of volunteer effort goes into the TPAMI review process and a back of the envelope estimate is that over 34,000 hours (equivalent to 17 person years) are spent each year on the review process (based on three reviews, 8 hours per review, major revisions, 10 hours of Associate Editor effort, etc.). I really appreciate the hard work of the reviewers and the dedication of the Associate Editors who have to make very diffi cult decisions and work with the authors to improve their papers. Finally, I’d like to thank my wife Teresa and children Bryce and Dylan for their patience and forbearance which allowed me to focus on TPAMI, often late into the night.