IEEEtran – How to Remove Author Picture

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I'm using LyX and the article (IEEEtran) template to write a paper for an IEEE conference.

In the biographies section, there's a default space for a picture for the first author. Even if I remove the optional placeholder in the LyX GUI, There's an empty box generated in the PDF where such a picture would go.

I know that I can get around this with LaTeX directly by using \begin{IEEEbiographynophoto} instead of \begin{IEEEbiography}.
However, I do not see a way to get around this without having to export to LaTeX from LyX and then edit the .tex file. Is there a way to get LyX to not require a picture for the first author?

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You could make the IEEEbiography react just like the IEEEbiographynophoto environment by placing the following in your LaTeX preamble:

\renewenvironment{IEEEbiography}[1]
  {\IEEEbiographynophoto{#1}}
  {\endIEEEbiographynophoto}

LaTeX Preamble

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** WARNING: \thanks is locked out when in conference mode (line 12).

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The following commands are intentionally disabled: \thanks, \IEEEPARstart, \IEEEbiography, \IEEEbiographynophoto, \IEEEpubid, \IEEEpubidadjcol, \IEEEmembership, and \IEEEaftertitletext. If needed, they can be reenabled by issuing the command: \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts.

So issuing \IEEEoverridecommandlockouts before \begin{document} will make the acknowledgments appear.

I'd leave that to the conference editors.

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The \maketitle inIEEEtran is defined in such a way that it issues a \newpage before putting the title and friends. I have included the definition for reference (from IEEEtran):

\def\maketitle{\par%
  \begingroup%
  \normalfont%
  \def\thefootnote{}%  the \thanks{} mark type is empty
  \def\footnotemark{}% and kill space from \thanks within author
  \let\@makefnmark\relax% V1.7, must *really* kill footnotemark to remove all \textsuperscript spacing as well.
  \footnotesize%       equal spacing between thanks lines
  \footnotesep 0.7\baselineskip%see global setting of \footnotesep for more info
  % V1.7 disable \thanks note indention for compsoc
  \@IEEEcompsoconly{\long\def\@makefntext##1{\parindent 1em\noindent\hbox{\@makefnmark}##1}}%
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  \ifCLASSOPTIONpeerreview
     \newpage\global\@topnum\z@ \@maketitle\@IEEEstatictitlevskip\@IEEEaftertitletext%
     \thispagestyle{IEEEpeerreviewcoverpagestyle}\@thanks%
  \else
     \if@twocolumn%
        \ifCLASSOPTIONtechnote%
           \newpage\global\@topnum\z@ \@maketitle\@IEEEstatictitlevskip\@IEEEaftertitletext%
        \else
           \twocolumn[\@maketitle\@IEEEdynamictitlevspace\@IEEEaftertitletext]%
        \fi
     \else
        \newpage\global\@topnum\z@ \@maketitle\@IEEEstatictitlevskip\@IEEEaftertitletext%
     \fi
     \thispagestyle{IEEEtitlepagestyle}\@thanks%
  \fi
  % pullup page for pubid if used.
  \if@IEEEusingpubid
     \enlargethispage{-\@IEEEpubidpullup}%
  \fi 
  \endgroup
  \setcounter{footnote}{0}\let\maketitle\relax\let\@maketitle\relax
  \gdef\@thanks{}%
  % v1.6b do not clear these as we will need the title again for peer review papers
  % \gdef\@author{}\gdef\@title{}%
  \let\thanks\relax
}

If you issue \copyrightnotice before \maketitle, first the tikzpicture is put and a \newpage is issued by \maketitle resulting in copy right with its own page.

Hence put the \copyrightnotice after the \maketitle:

%% bare_conf.tex
%% V1.4
%% 2012/12/27
%% by Michael Shell

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\IEEEoverridecommandlockouts

% *** IEEE Copyright notice with TikZ ***
%
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\newcommand\copyrighttext{%
  \footnotesize \textcopyright 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted.
  Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future
  media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional
  purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or
  lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.
  DOI: \href{<http://tex.stackexchange.com>}{<DOI No.>}}
\newcommand\copyrightnotice{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay]
\node[anchor=south,yshift=10pt] at (current page.south) {\fbox{\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-\fboxsep-\fboxrule\relax}{\copyrighttext}}};
\end{tikzpicture}%
}

\begin{document}
% *** IEEE Copyright notice with TikZ ***
%
\title{Bare Demo of IEEEtran.cls for Conferences}
% make the title area
\maketitle
\copyrightnotice

\begin{abstract}
The abstract goes here.
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
\lipsum[1]

\subsection{Subsection Heading Here}
\lipsum[1-2]

\subsubsection{Subsubsection Heading Here}
\lipsum[1-2]

% that's all folks
\end{document}

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