[PRE REVIEW]: Syclops: A Modular Pipeline for Procedural Generation of Synthetic Data

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Submitting author: @aelmiger (Anton Elmiger)
Repository: https://github.com/DFKI-NI/syclops
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): joss-paper
Version: v1.4.0
Editor: @boisgera
Reviewers: Pending
Managing EiC: Chris Vernon

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

✅ OK DOIs

- None

🟡 SKIP DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: PhenoBench: A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Sem...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: A survey of synthetic data augmentation methods in...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Blender - a 3D modelling and rendering package
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Evaluating synthetic vs. real data generation for ...

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- 10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00373 may be a valid DOI for title: Kubric: A scalable dataset generator
- 10.21105/joss.04901 may be a valid DOI for title: Blenderproc2: A procedural pipeline for photoreali...
- 10.1007/978-3-031-16072-1_53 may be a valid DOI for title: Real-world computer vision for real-world applicat...

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Software report:

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Commit count by author:

    21	Anton Elmiger
    16	aelmiger
     2	Kai von Szadkowski
     2	Timo Korthals

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Paper file info:

⚠️ Wordcount for paper.md is 1496

✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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License info:

🟡 License found: GNU General Public License v3.0 (Check here for OSI approval)

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@aelmiger - while I am getting you set up with a topic editor, please reduce the word count of your paper to at or below 1000 words. Thanks!

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