General Steps

• Revise your manuscript to address the comments of the reviewers.
• For each paper accepted subject to review of a shepherd, please send your revised paper to your assigned shepherd for review. You must have acquired the consent of your respective shepherd before submitting the final version. Without consent from your shepherd, your paper will not be accepted for final publication.
• Generate an IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF for your paper (see the detailed instructions below)
• Complete the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form (eCF) (see the detailed instructions below)
• The manuscript (in PDF only) should be submitted to the dedicated camera-ready HotCRP website by Tuesday, August 24th September 7th, 2021: https://icnp21camera.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/hotcrp (please ignore the certificate warning)
• At least one author should register to the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to register at the full rate of the conference. Each main conference registration may be applied to at most three main conference papers (including full and short). Each workshop registration may be applied to at most three workshop papers.
• Every paper must be presented by an author at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted to the IEEE digital library. Please see the detailed policy below.

Paper Formatting

The final version of papers, posters and demos should be in double-column format with standard margins and at least a 10 point font. The page limits are as follows:

• Full papers: ten (10) pages main content, plus references;
• Workshop papers: six (6) pages including references;
• Posters/demos: two (2) pages including references, and the titles must bear "Poster:" or "Demo:" prefix, respectively.

Papers that exceed the page limit will not be accepted for publication. Papers should include a title and an abstract of fewer than 250 words.

All papers must be formatted for printing on US LETTER (8.5" by 11") and must adhere to the IEEE formatting requirements. For LaTeX users, please use the "conference" option. The template should be used as is. Papers that modify the template, e.g., by picking narrower line-spacing or margins than what the template defines, will be rejected for publication.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format, without including any non-standard fonts. We must be able to display and print your camera-ready manuscript exactly as we receive it and using only standard tools and postscript printers. Therefore, we strongly suggest that you use only standard fonts. Make sure that the paper, including the figures, is readable on a black-and-white printout. Also, make sure to embed all fonts, make your text searchable, and suppress all page numbers in your final paper PDF.

Author List, Paper Titles, and Presentation

The author list must remain the same as when the paper was submitted for review, and any changes in the author list or title is forbidden without prior written permission from the TPC Co-Chairs.

Every paper must be presented by an author at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to register at the full rate of the conference and to present the paper at the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings and be submitted to the IEEE digital library. Please expect further information for registration.

Non-Presented Paper Policy ("No-Show Policy"): Each paper must be presented at the conference by an author of that paper, unless prior approval is obtained from the TPC Co-Chairs and General Chairs. Papers that are not presented by their authors may be removed from IEEE Xplore and be excluded from distribution after the conference.

Generating and Submitting IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF

• Add the copyright notice to the bottom of the first page of your paper
  1. For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is: U.S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
  2. For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-4131-5/21/$31.00 ©2021 Crown
  3. For papers in which all authors are employed by the European Union, the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-4131-5/21/$31.00 ©2021 European Union
  4. For all other papers the copyright notice is: 978-1-6654-4131-5/21/$31.00 ©2021 IEEE
  Latex users can add following lines just before \begin{document} for the copyright notice to show up (shown below as an example for the d case above):
  \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts\IEEEpubid{\makebox[\columnwidth]{ 978-1-6654-4131-5/21/\$31.00 $\copyright$2021 IEEE \hfill}\hspace{\columnsep}\makebox[\columnwidth]{ }}
  
• You can use IEEE PDF eXpress in two ways:
  1. To verify whether your final manuscript PDF is compatible to IEEE Xplore.
  2. To generate an IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF using your manuscript source files (e.g. Microsoft Word, LaTeX DVI and EPS files).
• To access IEEE PDF eXpress:
  1. Go to https://ieee-pdf-express.org.
  2. Use Conference ID: 52444X.
  3. Follow the instructions in the website.
• If you have verified your PDF to be IEEE Xplore-Compatible or have successfully generated an IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF, you can then proceed to submit the IEEE Xplore-Compatible PDF to the submission site https://icnp21camera.cse.cuhk.edu.hk.
  1. If your PDF is not compatible or the PDF generation fails, you must fix the errors.
  2. This may take several iterations over several days, so please begin this process as soon as possible.
  3. If your submitted paper does not pass Xplore compatible check, you will be asked to re-generate a compatible version and take the risk of not being included in the conference proceedings.

Electronic Copyright Form

Please fill out and submit the following form to access the IEEE Electronic Copyright Form (eCF) system. The eCF system allows you to complete and sign the copyright release form. You must complete the IEEE copyright release form using the eCF system in order to submit your paper. This copyright release form MUST be COMPLETED when you are submitting your paper.

Please note: You are stating that the material in your paper is original and you have not previously released copyright for this paper to another party. We cannot publish your paper without this properly completed form.

Author names (separate with 'and')*:

Author Emails (separate with comma)*:

Paper Title*:

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