Cannot align caption to the center

[pratikvimal.iitk]

I am using the code below for centering the image and it's caption. But there seems to be some problem with it. The image is centered but the caption isn't. The caption is left centered. Please note that the Table Caption is Centered.

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\begin{figure}[h]
 \begin{center}
                \includegraphics[height=50 mm,width=90mm]{levelmmfustiny.eps}
        \caption{\it Levels of multi modal information fusion}
        \label{mmfus}
        \end{center}
\end{figure}

[localghost]

This code snippet is far too little information, not to say useless [1]. The code below doesn't cause any problems. So its your turn to show the opposite by means of a counterexample (MWE).

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}

\begin{document}
  \begin{figure}[!ht]
    \centering
    \rule{6.4cm}{3.6cm}
    \caption{Dummy figure}\label{fig:dummy}
  \end{figure}
\end{document}

As you can see, the default behaviour is a centered caption, even if the figure itself would not be centered.

[1] View topic: Avoidable mistakes


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[pratikvimal.iitk]

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\documentclass[12pt,twocolumn,twoside,final]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
\usepackage[final]{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsbsy}
\usepackage{subfigure}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\bibliographystyle{unsrt}

\pagestyle{plain}
\renewcommand\floatpagefraction{.9}
\renewcommand\topfraction{.9}
\renewcommand\bottomfraction{.9}
%\renewcommand\textfraction{.1}  
\renewcommand{\dbltopfraction}{0.9}     % fit big float above 2-col. text
\renewcommand{\textfraction}{0.07}      % allow minimal text w. figs
\setcounter{totalnumber}{50}
\setcounter{topnumber}{50}
\setcounter{bottomnumber}{50}

My document class is IEEEtran as you can see in the code above.

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\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
      \includegraphics[height=50 mm,width=90mm]{levelmmfustiny.eps}
   \caption{\it Levels of multi modal information fusion}
   \label{mmfus}
   \end{center}
\end{figure}

Please let me know if this helps

[localghost]

[...] Please let me know if this helps

Not really. So I can only advice to read Section X (Floating structures, p. 8ff) of the IEEEtran manual. Seems that this caption format is the default setup. And by the way, you don't need to load a package three times.

[sommerfee]

My document class is IEEEtran as you can see in the code above.

The IEEEtran document class will only center figure captions in Conference Mode, i.e. document class option "conference" is set.

(See also IEEEtrans documentation "How to Use the IEEEtran LATEX Class", page 2: "Conference Mode Details: Conference mode makes a number of significant changes to the way IEEEtran behaves: [...]
• The figure captions are centered.")

Axel

[pratikvimal.iitk]

Thanks localghost and Axel