[PRE REVIEW]: G'MIC: An Open-Source Self-Extending Framework for Image Processing

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Submitting author: !--author-handle-->@dtschump<!--end-author-handle-- (David Tschumperlé) Repository: https://github.com/GreycLab/gmic Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joss Version: 3.3.2 Editor: !--editor-->@gkthiruvathukal<!--end-editor-- Reviewers: @jamesrhester, @Smattr, @drj11 Managing EiC: Daniel S. Katz

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- 10.1109/icip46576.2022.9897386 may be a valid DOI for title: Automatic Illumination of Flat-Colored Drawings by 3D Augmentation of 2D Silhouettes
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:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

[danielskatz]

@dtschump - Can you add the full software to the joss branch (so that this is copy of master, with the paper, rather than just the paper)?

[danielskatz]

In addition, you could work on the possibly missing DOIs that editorialbot suggests, but note that some may be incorrect. Please feel free to make changes to your .bib file, then use the command @editorialbot check references to check again, and the command @editorialbot generate pdf when the references are right to make a new PDF. editorialbot commands need to be the first entry in a new comment.

[danielskatz]

Finally (for now), your paper is not a JOSS paper: it's about 7000 words long, while JOSS papers are typically around 1000 words. Much of what is in your paper might be replaced by links to documentation or something else. The JOSS paper should just be a brief introduction to the software.

Please follow the example paper You can use the command @editorialbot generate pdf after making changes to the .md file to make a new PDF.

[dtschump]

Hello @danielskatz . Thanks for your inspection. I'm currently trying to fix the issues, and I'll reduce the length of the paper as well.

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- 10.1109/icip46576.2022.9897386 is OK
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- 10.1137/19m1306798 is OK
- 10.1109/tip.2015.2411437 is OK
- 10.1109/99.660313 is OK
- 10.1038/s41586-023-06551-1 is OK

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[dtschump]

@danielskatz , I think I'm done with the rewrite. I don't think I can reduce the paper it any further (without removing important content). I'm a bit surprised the "Statement of need" section is not found, as it is actually the title of the first section.

Is there anything more I can do now? Thanks for your attention.

[danielskatz]

The issue with the statement of need section might be because you are adding numbers to your section headings, which the JOSS example paper doesn't have. Can you remove them and check again?

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@editorialbot generate pdf

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:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

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@editorialbot generate pdf

[dtschump]

I've removed the section numbers.

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:point_right::page_facing_up: Download article proof :page_facing_up: View article proof on GitHub :page_facing_up: :point_left:

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[danielskatz]

@dtschump - that seems to have fixed it. I'll next look for an editor. While I do so, if you have any suggestions for potential reviewers then please mention them here in this thread (without tagging them with an @). You can search the list of people that have already agreed to review and may be suitable for this submission, or suggest people from outside JOSS.

[danielskatz]

👋 @gkthiruvathukal - do you think you could edit this submission?

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[dtschump]

About reviewers suggestion :

In your list, I think people with an image processing & C/C++ background, would be good candidates. So with the search filters, I found : Jonathan Bach Martin, Justus Schock and @hechth.

Outside JOSS official reviewers, I would recommend :

• Pierre Kornprobst (https://team.inria.fr/biovision/pierre-kornprobst/), as an experienced researcher who has a long experience in implementing image processing algorithms in C/C++, and supervising students who do so, for various research projects.
• Hughes Talbot (https://hugues-talbot.github.io/), who participated in the development of the PINK Image processing library (opensource, C++, kind of "concurrent" to G'MIC with a quite similar spirit).
• Alexandre Duretz-Lutz (https://www.lrde.epita.fr/~adl/) or Thierry Géraud (https://www.lrde.epita.fr/wiki/User:Theo), who both initiated the development of the OLENA image processing library (also opensource, C++, used for internal research in the EPITA research lab).

[gkthiruvathukal]

@danielskatz Yes. A bit busy at SC23 but will get to it soon.

[danielskatz]

Thanks - maybe I'll see you here at SC somewhere... Also, I'll go ahead and add as as editor now, knowing that you won't start immediately.

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[gkthiruvathukal]

@danielskatz Sorry I did not get a chance to meet you at SC23. There was a lot going on, including some (unwanted) meetings I had to take remotely from Denver. Working on getting this submission moving!

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