The 21st IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2020)

6-10 July 2020

London, United Kingdom

www.2020.ieeeicme.org/

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It aims at promoting exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives. ICME attracts well over 1000 submissions each year, serving as the prime forum for the dissemination of knowledge in the multimedia field.

ICME 2020 will take place 6-10 July 2020, London, UK. ICME 2020 will convene leading researchers and practitioners to share the latest developments and advances in the discipline. The conference will showcase high quality oral and poster presentations, as well as relevant Workshops sponsored by IEEE societies. An exposition of multimedia products, animations and industries will be also held in conjunction with the conference. Moreover, in ICME 2020 exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognised with prestigious awards.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Artificial intelligence for multimedia
  • Multimedia and vision
  • Development of multimedia standards and related research
  • Media quality metrics and enhancements
  • Multimedia communications, networking and mobility
  • 3D multimedia and AR/VR
  • Multimedia security, privacy and forensics
  • Multimedia software, hardware and application systems
  • Multimedia and language
  • Multimedia analytics, search and recommendation
  • Social and cloud-based multimedia
  • Media classification and segmentation

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Submission of papers
    • Regular paper submission (including special sessions) > 29 November 2019
    • Submission of papers to workshops and other tracks > 13 March 2020
  • Submission of proposals
    • Special session proposals > 01 October 2019
    • Panel proposals > 04 October 2019
    • Grand challenge proposals > 11 October 2019
    • Workshop proposals > extended to 01 November 2019
    • Tutorial proposals > 01 November 2019
    • Hands-on demo proposals > 01 May 2020

CONFERENCE AND JOURNAL PAPERS

All papers presented at ICME 2020 will be included in IEEE Xplore.

The IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is partnering with IEEE ICME. Extended versions of the top-ranked ICME 2020 papers will be invited for submission and potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. We invite authors to submit high-quality contributions aiming at taking part in this call and to have the opportunity to publish an extended ICME paper in this prestigious journal. After the due review process, if your paper is highly ranked, the Technical Program Committee Chairs will get in touch with you regarding the next steps.

LOCAL HOSTS

ICME 2020 will be hosted by Queen Mary University of London
A number of economical single ensuite rooms are available on a first-come first-serve basis at QMUL. Other options are also available to suit different budgets. For venue and travel information see http://www.2020.ieeeicme.org/index.php/venue-and-travel/

ORGANISATIONAL SPONSORS

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society

Organising Commitee

GENERAL CHAIRS

  • Marta Mrak
    BBC R&D, UK
  • Ebroul Izquierdo
    Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Vladan Velisavljevic
    University of Bedfordshire, UK

PROGRAM CHAIRS

  • Shuai Wan
    Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
  • Ce Zhu
    University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China
  • Jian Zhang
    University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • Jianquan Liu
    NEC Corporation, Japan
  • Shiwen Mao
    Auburn University, US
  • Wen-Huang Cheng
    National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • Jiwen Lu
    Tsinghua University, China

PLENARY CHAIRS

  • Mei-Ling Shyu
    University of Miami, US
  • Joao Ascenso
    Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

  • Noel O’Connor
    Dublin City University, Ireland
  • Raouf Hamzaoui
    De Montfort University, UK

SPECIAL SESSION CHAIRS

  • Athanasios Mouchtaris
    Amazon, US
  • Gene Cheung
    York University, Canada

TUTORIAL CHAIRS

  • Pascal Frossard
    Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Joao Magalhaes
    Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

PANEL CHAIRS

  • Chia-Wen Lin
    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
  • Nikolaos Boulgouris
    Brunel University, UK

INDUSTRY CHAIRS

  • Vanessa Testoni
    Samsung, Brazil
  • Shenglan Huang
    Hulu, China
  • Béatrice Pesquet
    Thales, France

DEMO CHAIRS

  • Christian Timmerer
    Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
  • Saverio Blasi
    BBC, UK

EXPO CHAIRS

  • Sebastiaan Van Leuven
    Twitter, UK
  • Balu Adsumilli
    YouTube, US

FINANCE CHAIR

  • Qianni Zhang
    Queen Mary University of London, UK

PUBLICATION CHAIR

  • Eduardo Peixoto
    University of Brasilia, Brazil

PUBLICITY CHAIRS

  • Fiona Rivera
    BBC, UK
  • Jiaying Liu
    Peking University, China
  • Enrico Magli
    Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  • Homer Chen
    National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Joern Ostermann
    Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

REGISTRATION AND LOCAL CHAIRS

  • Tomas Piatrik
    Queen Mary University of London, UK
  • Charith Abhayaratne
    University of Sheffield, UK

GRAND CHALLENGE CHAIRS

  • Dave Bull
    University of Bristol, UK
  • Patrick Le Callet
    University of Nantes, France

EUROPEAN RESEARCH PROJECTS CHAIR

  • Alberto Rabbachin
    European Commission, Belgium

AWARDS COMMITTEE CHAIR

  • Maria Martini
    Kingston University, UK

STUDENT PROGRAM CHAIR

  • Hantao Liu
    Cardiff University, UK

WEB CHAIR

  • Maria Silvia Ito
    Queen Mary University of London, UK

For further information please see http://www.2020.ieeeicme.org/
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