Paper Submission

All papers should be submitted electronically via Open Review 

The length of each paper submitted to the Research tracks should be no more than seven (7) pages of technical content plus additional pages solely for references and should be formatted following the standard 2-column U.S. letter style of the IEEE Conference template. For further information and instructions, see the IEEE Proceedings Author Guidelines.

All submissions will be blind reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of:

    Technical quality

    Relevance to the conference's topics of interest

    Originality

    Significance

    Clarity

Author names and affiliations must not appear in the submissions, and bibliographic references must be adjusted to preserve author anonymity. Submissions failing to comply with formatting or anonymity will be rejected without review.

Because of the double-blind review process, non-anonymous papers that have been issued as technical reports or similar cannot be considered for DSAA'2026. An exception applies to arXiv papers that were published in arXiv at least one month prior to the DSAA'2026 submission deadline, provided that the submitted paper's title and abstract differ from the arXiv version.

Proceedings and Indexing

All accepted full-length papers will be published by IEEE and will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The conference proceedings will be submitted for EI indexing through INSPEC by IEEE.

Authors are expected to submit through OpenReview via https://openreview.net/group?id=IEEE.org/DSAA/2026/Special_Sessions 

Once authors are in, they could select the specific SS from the list:

• MADL 2026: Maritime and Other Applications of Deep Learning Techniques