Smart Multimedia will serve as a focused forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from the research, development and industrial perspectives.

Authors are invited to submit a full paper (10-12 pages in Springer format) according to the guidelines available on the conference website at www.SmartMultimedia.org. For Short/Industrial papers 6-10 pages in Springer format will be needed. Electronic submissions are required. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Speech, audio, image, video, text, pattern, signal and location-based media processing
Intelligence Surveillance
Multimedia coding, retargeting and transmission
Haptic Intelligence
Multimedia in Medicine
Automation in Surgery
3D imaging, visualization, animation, virtual reality and 3DTV
Classification, Clustering and Machine Learning for Multimedia Smart Homes
Multimedia and social sciences, art, entertainment, culture, education, healthcare
Multi-modal integration, human‐machine interaction and human factors
Multimedia communication, networking and mobility
Multimedia vision, security, content protection and forensics
Multimedia databases, digital libraries, and social media
Multimedia applications, services, interfaces, devices, sensors and systems
Content analysis, matching and retrieval
Multimedia standards, trends and surveys
Multimedia quality assessment, metrics and studies

The conference will have high quality limited track oral and poster presentations. Several awards sponsored by industry and institutions will be given out. Accepted papers must be presented in person by one of the authors at the conference, or else they will not be included in the proceedings.

Extensions or work related to the conference papers will be sought for special issues of selected journals. The proceedings will be published by Springer. In addition, authors of accepted papers may submit related work that does not overlap with the Springer publications to a special issue entitled “Smart Multimedia: Methodologies and Algorithms” to Information Sciences (Elsevier). Other journal publications related to the top papers in the conference are also being planned.

Key Dates:
Regular Paper Submission: April 30, 2018
Short/Industrial Paper Submission: May 10, 2018
Notification of Regular Paper Acceptance: May 27, 2018
Notification of Short/Industrial Papers: June 1, 2018
Camera-Ready Regular Paper Due: June 2, 2018
Camera-Ready Other Papers Due: June 5, 2018

Sponsors & Partners:
Multimedia Research Center, Alberta
SeaTech France
Together Technologies
IMT Lille Douai
INSA Lyon
University of Florence
A-Star

Conference Website: www.smartmultimedia.org
Contact Email: webmaster@smartmultimedia.org