The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2021)

July 5-9, 2021
Shenzhen, China

Call for Papers and Proposals

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 2021 will take place July 5-9, 2021, Shenzhen, China. ICME 2021 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 2021 exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized with prestigious awards.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence for multimedia
• 3D multimedia, AR/VR and Immersive media
• Emerging multimedia applications and technologies
• Image/video processing
• Multimedia analysis and understanding
• Multimedia communications, networking and mobility
• Multimedia databases and data mining
• Multimedia for society and health
• Multimedia interaction
• Multimedia quality assessment and metrics
• Multimedia security, privacy and forensics
• Multimedia software, hardware and application systems
• Multimedia standards, trends and related research
• Multi-modal media computing and human-machine interaction
• Social media analysis and applications
• Speech/audio processing

Important Dates

Submission of papers

• Regular Paper submission (including Special Sessions) : November 29, 2020
• Submission of papers to workshops and other tracks : March 13, 2021
• Industry/Application track paper submission : March 22, 2021

Submission of proposals

• Special Session Proposals : November 01, 2020
• Panel Proposals : November 01, 2020
• Grand Challenge Proposals : November 01, 2020
• Workshop Proposals : November 01, 2020
• Tutorial Proposals : November 01, 2020
• Open Source Competition : March 01, 2021
• Demo Proposals : April 02, 2021
• Industry Expo Proposals : May 01, 2021

Conference and Journal Papers

All papers presented at ICME 2021 will be included in IEEE Xplore.
The IEEE Transactions on Multimedia is partnering with IEEE ICME. Extended versions of the top-ranked ICME 2021 papers will be invited for submission and potential publication in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems. 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.

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs

• Chang Wen Chen
  State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
• Wen Gao
  Peking University and Peng Cheng Lab, China

General Chairs

• Moncef Gabbouj
  Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Houqiang Li
  University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Guo-Jun Qi
  Futurewei Technologies/University of Central Florida, USA
• Yonghong Tian
  Peking University and Peng Cheng Lab, China

Technical Program Committee Chairs

• Wanqing Li
  University of Wollongong, Australia
• Jiaying Liu
  Peking University, China
• Guan-Ming Su
  Dolby Labs, USA
• Anastasios Tefas
  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Yonggang Wen
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Chonggang Wang
  InterDigital Communications, USA

Panel Chairs

• Gary Li
  Peking University (Shenzhen), China
• Marta Mrak
  BBC R&D, UK
• Shervin Shirmohammadi
  University of Ottawa, Canada

Tutorial Chairs

• Giulia Boato
  University of Trento, Italy
• Jie Wang
  University of Science and Technology of China, China

Workshop Chairs

• Ivan Bajic
  Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
  University of Ottawa, Canada
• Hongkai Xiong
  Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Industry Chairs

• Ali C. Began
  Ozyegin University, Turkey
• Dong Tian
  InterDigital, Inc., USA
• Qi Tian
  Huawei Technologies & UTSA, China/USA

Industry Expo Chairs

• Han Hu
  Beijing Institute of Technology, China
• Wen-Huang Cheng
  National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Publicity Chairs

• Alexandros Iosifidis
  Aarhus University, Denmark
• Dong Liu
  University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Yao Liu
  Binghamton University, USA

Publication Chairs

• Giuseppe Valenzise
  Laboratoire des Signaux et systmesè, France
• Wengang Zhou
  University of Science and Technology of China, China

Demo Chairs

• Zhenzhen Hu
  Hefei University of Technology, China
• Zechao Li
  Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Special Session Chairs

• Junchi Yan
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Yi Yu
  National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Grand Challenge Chairs

• Shan Liu
  Tencent Media Lab, China
• Liqiang Nie
  Shandong University, China
• Zhengjun Zha
  University of Science and Technology of China, China

Open Source Chairs

• Shiguang Shan
  Institute of Computing Technology, China
• Wei Hu
  Peking University, China

Local Arrangement Chairs

• Jingfei Qiu
  Peng Cheng Lab, China
• Feng Zheng
  Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Financial Chairs

• Xuejin Chen
  University of Science and Technology of China, China
• Xiaoxu Luan
  Peng Cheng Lab, China

Sponsor Chairs

• Dan Zeng
  Shanghai University, China
• Yongdong Zhang
  University of Science and Technology of China, China

Web Chair

• Qiaokang Xie
  University of Science and Technology of China, China