IEEEtran: Placing a two-column figure on desired page

Question

Using the IEEEtran class, I have problems positioning a two-column figure on the desired page: The figure is always plotted on the next page.

Here my minimal code:

documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}

usepackage{cite}
usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

begin{document}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
section{Conclusion}
label{sec:EndConclusion}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Conclusion text

begin{figure*}[tb]
centering
includegraphics[width=textwidth]{figure1}
caption{caption}
end{figure*}

bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
nocite{*}
bibliography{bibliography}

end{document}

which results in:

I'd like to have the figure on the top and then Conclusion and References below. There is definitely enough space for everything. What can I do?

Well, my real conclusion is longer, and I have more bib entries, then the references should continue on the next page.

Ignasi · Accepted Answer

Next paragraph appears in page 11 from IEEEtran_HOWTO

Another LATEX2ε limitation (patched with stfloats or not) is that
  double column floats will not appear on the same page where they are
  defined. So, the user will have to define such things prior to the
  page on which they are to (possibly) appear.

So if you want that your figure be placed where Conclusions and References, declare it in previous page. And remember that due to next paragraph (page 9)

Furthermore, IEEE journals never place floats in the first column of
  the first page and rarely (if ever) do they do so in the second column
  of the first page. Middle in-text placement (“here”) is not used.

you must test it with enough text to fill more than one page, otherwise your figure will always appear on an empty second page.

afsara_ben · Answer

This worked for me

begin{figure*}[t]
    centering
    includegraphics[width=textwidth]{images/classifiers-boxplot.png}
    caption{}
end{figure*}

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