The SIGGRAPH Asia Technical Papers Program strives to maintain a fair and equitable, doubly anonymous review process. As such, in addition to requiring the authors to not reveal their identities directly in their SIGGRAPH Asia submissions (see the Technical Papers Call for Submissions), we also ask them to minimize the chances that the reviewers will recognize the submission authors based on information available online or under other circumstances. Such recognitions, which would compromise double blindness, could happen “by accident” when a Technical Papers Committee (TPC) member searches for potential tertiary reviewers while browsing through their webpages or when any reviewer scans the social media or listens to a research talk. At the same time, we understand that certain communities have a culture of early dissemination, and in some instances keeping author information confidential can impose undue hardship.
Based on the above principles, during the review period, i.e., from two weeks before the submission deadline (that is, starting 9 May 2025 for SIGGRAPH Asia 2025) until the submission is conditionally accepted or the authors are notified that the submission is rejected, the following are considered violations of the review process:
- Showing the paper title, reference or link to a prepublication (arXiv, institutional tech report, …), or other identifying information of a SIGGRAPH Asia submission on authors’ individual or institutional webpages, project pages, code or data repositories.
- Generating any publicity referring to the submitted works via university or company PR teams or channels.
- Publicizing the submitted work in external talks (unless it is a job talk, see below).
- Generating any publicity referring to the submitted works via authors’ individual or institutional social media channels or other forms of media. This includes publishing any type of interviews with editors/journalists/writers/interviewers of newspapers, radio, television, or magazines, as well as public relations and media arms of companies, universities, and other research institutions.
- Publicly replying or acknowledging authorship in response to any social media posts by others regarding the submitted work.
- Creating public code or data repositories corresponding to the submission that allow determining the author’s identity (e.g., by listing the author name, or through the username).
On the other hand, the following are NOT considered a violation of the review process rules, as long as the respective conditions are satisfied:
- Archiving the submission (as a way to get a timestamp) as an institutional tech report, or a preprint on arXiv or a similar service, before or after the submission deadline is allowed. However, one should not state anywhere that the submission is under review for SIGGRAPH Asia. In particular, it should not include the submission ID or use the ACM TOG format (this refers to conference name, copyright, etc., not to the choice of fonts, margins, or column layout).
- Making social media posts or other forms of online promotion where only the research idea is described without referring to any submission or preprint (e.g., arXiv).
- Authors can privately reply to submission-related queries submitted via social media. The replies should not be publicly visible.
- Unlisted YouTube videos linked to an arXiv submission are allowed. Such videos should not include submission IDs or author information.
- Anonymous code or data repositories, i.e., ones where the author’s identity cannot be determined through username or other means, either stand-alone or linked to an arXiv submission, are allowed.
- Authors can list submissions as “under review at SIGGRAPH Asia” as part of the written materials submitted for job, school, and funding applications. They can also discuss them during job interviews and job interview talks.
