Submitting Your Stories to Discover Computer Vision: Some Guidelines
By: Somraj Saha
Tags: Computer Vision, Submission Guidelines, Deep Learning, About Us, Join Us

1. We Need Original Contributions From You

Before you submit an article to us, we suggest that you ask yourself how original the content of your article is. Is it something that our readers will be hooked on to & appreciate?

If the answer is, YES, go ahead & submit it without a second thought.

But on hindsight quite often we also come across articles which are mere rephrased content duplicated from Arxiv. That’s considered Plagiarism, hence we request you to run you articles through a plagiarism-checker software, preferably the Plagiarism Checker by Grammarly before you submit.

Any content found to be plagiarized will be outright rejected without notice.

We maintain such strict quality-control to ensure that our readers are getting the top-notch standard content we promise to deliver. So please bear in mind that your article is adding value to the readers before drafting.

2. Articulate the Message of Your Article Skillfully

Readers on the Internet are known to have a short attention span & our readers aren’t any different. Hence, to ensure that your message is delivered to the reader we request that you articulate your message in a clever manner.

Some suggestions that we’ve come up with over the years of experience writing online, are as follows:

Be VERY precise about the idea you’re writing about.

precise about the idea you’re writing about. Include a non-clickbait title. Believe us when we say it, a clickbait title might fetch you some CTR no doubt but Medium isn’t YouTube/Facebook! You want your articles to be read not just clicked & moved on to the next article.

Believe us when we say it, a clickbait title might fetch you some CTR no doubt but Medium isn’t YouTube/Facebook! You want your articles not just clicked & moved on to the next article. Phrase an extremely precise introduction right below the Subtitle/Featured Image(if you include one). It should sum up the rest of your article briefly yet deliver enough information to keep the reader hooked.

Writing articles online is a skill on its own which understandably not everyone will have. As such we request you to try to be as skillful as possible so that our editors can take care of the rest.

3. Avoid Overcrowding the Internet With Yet Another Tutorial

The Internet is an overcrowded place full of individuals trying to teach their craft to one another. So as much as we appreciate you helping someone out with your tutorials, at Discover Computer Vision we don’t publish low-effort tutorial posts.

You can try out other bigger publications like Towards Data Science or Better Programming for submitting such articles.

But does it mean we don’t submit any tutorial articles?

Well actually, we do, but bear in mind the following criteria which should satisfy the context your articles are about;

A unique subject matter that has earlier never been discussed on any other platforms out there.

There’s a research gap that you would like to address very briefly instead of writing a full-blown research paper.

You recreated an experiment or a previous implementation of a closed-source product & you figured some discrepancies or stumbled across a even better implementation of the product.

If the content you’re sharing fulfills all these criteria, feel free to go ahead & submit it to us.

4. Check Your Fact & Credit the Original Source

Not citing the original source of the content you use for your article is equivalent to stealing & the repercussions can be huge. Hence, we request you every writers to cite the content that aren’t your own & make sure you’re allowed to use it for commercial purpose.

Everything you use from a mere feature image to a quote you picked up from a published paper in a journal has to be cited. If you’re confused about the original source, we suggest you not to use it at all.

Also please provide a Reference section at the end of your article & follow this format;

[X] N. Name, Title (Year), Source

Here’s an example;

[1] A. Pesah, A. Wehenkel and G. Louppe, Recurrent Machines for Likelihood-Free Inference (2018), NeurIPS 2018 Workshop on Meta-Learning

5. Refrain From Self-promotion & Aggressive CTAs

We believe in providing top-notch quality articles to our readers & that’s the motive behind setting up the publication in the first place. Hence, in order to ensure, we’re delivering what we promised, we don’t publish half-baked articles whose main purpose is to market under a guise.

Although, we do allow subtle marketing of your previously published articles or blog posts related to Computer Vision at the end of the submitted article. If you include back-links to older articles, please do it in no more than 1–3 sentences.

Any other CTAs like asking for claps, following up on Twitter or other social media platforms, downloading a book, etc aren’t allowed & you’ll be asked to remove them before resubmitting.

Instead, we suggest you include CTAs on your Medium profile. You can follow up on Casey Botticello’s advice on his article — Medium Profile Page to know how to maximize your gains through an optimized profile page.

Regardless, know that, if you share good & quality content, it’s not difficult to grow a fan following.

6. Optimize Your Story For Curation & Discoverability

Congratulations on completing the article, alas, sadly just writing isn’t enough. But that’s what we’re here for, to help you get better at writing articles online!

So we suggest, you follow these points mentioned below to gain maximum value from each one of your articles;