ACM ICMR 2016,  New York, USA
International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
http://www.icmr2016.com/

*** CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS ***

ACM ICMR-2016 is the premier conference for multimedia information retrieval. We are
seeking high quality and original papers that address novel problems and explore
innovative technical approaches for multimedia retrieval that are of interest to a broad
community of multimedia scientists, engineers, practitioners, and students. Of particular
interest are contributions that investigate multimedia retrieval in practice including
challenges related scale, effectiveness, efficiency, multi-modal integration, user
interfaces and multimedia retrieval deployment across a range of industries. We
particularly welcome contributions on the following topics:

. Multimedia content extraction, analysis and indexing
. Multimedia content-based search and retrieval
. Multimedia semantic modeling, taxonomies, ontologies, facets
. Multi-modal integration (audio, visual, text, metadata)
. Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, neural nets
. Relevance feedback, active learning and transfer learning
. Audio-visual feature design and evaluation
. Multimedia retrieval metrics, data sets and evaluation
. Social media, crowdsourcing and tagging
. Large-scale multimedia indexing and search
. Multimedia analysis/search acceleration: GPU, FPGA, etc.
. Solutions: video repositories, smart albums, media sharing, media
personalization, content management
. Industry applications: medicine, retail, travel, media and entertainment, Web,
advertising, fashion, security


***IMPORTANT DATES***

* FULL PAPERS and SHORT PAPERS
* TECHNICAL DEMONSTRATIONS
        Paper Submission: January 29, 2016 11:59 PM PST
        Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2016

* BRAVE NEW IDEAS PAPERS
* DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM
        Paper Submission: February 12, 2016 11:59 PM PST
        Notification of Acceptance: March 25, 2016

* GRAND CHALLENGE PROPOSALS
* SPECIAL SESSIONS PROPOSALS
        Special session paper submission: January 29, 2016
        Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2016

* WORKSHOPS PROPOSALS
        Proposal for a Workshop due: January 5, 2016
        Proposal acceptance:: January 14, 2016
        Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: February 15, 2016
        Workshop Paper Notification: March 25, 2016

* TUTORIALS PROPOSALS
        Proposal for a Tutorial due: February 12, 2016
        Decision for Tutorials proposals: February 26, 2016

Details of each track are available on the conference website
http://www.icmr2016.com/call.html