===== ACM Multimedia 2021 =====

Oct. 20-24, 2021, Chengdu
More details please visit: https://2021.acmmm.org

1. Call for Papers

ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in multimedia. It covers multiple emerging fields focusing on advancing the research and applications of many media, including but not limited to images, text, audio, speech, music, sensor and social data. It strongly encourages a complete and integrated approach to exchange, process and utilize information across modalities, as well as all cutting-edge research on each medium with potential of great positive impacts on everyday lives and technological breakthroughs.

While the community has a tradition of developing and innovating AI and system approaches to handle big data and improve users’ experiences on engaging and interacting with multimedia, it is also uniquely angled towards novel applications and urgent industrial challenges. As such the conference openly embraces new intellectual perspectives from both industry and academia, and welcomes submissions from related fields, such as artificial intelligence, vision and languages, data sciences, HCI and multimedia signal processing, as well as healthcare, education and beyond. We invite the submissions in four major themes of multimedia.

Engaging Users with Multimedia
Emotional and social signals
Multimedia search and recommendations
Summarization, analysis and storytelling

Experience
Interactions and quality of experiences
Art and culture
Multimedia applications

Multimedia Systems
Systems and middleware
Transport and delivery
Data systems management and indexing

Understanding Multimedia Content
Multimodal fusion and embedding
Vision and language
Media interpretation

2. Highlights of ACM Multimedia 2021

Scientific Diversity: It is among our top priorities to ensure a top-quality conference that covers a full diversity of all fields of multimedia research including a variety of media modalities by addressing both technological and practical challenges.

Value: We strive to select the most innovative and the highest-quality research aiming at the most impactful novelty on individual media and/or from a systematic perspective of innovating and integrating multiple components across modalities.

Sharing: We value the sharing of not only knowledge (in the form of papers, presentations and demos) but also the code and open-source software. While we will continue the implementation of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging, best efforts will be made on sharing and preserving the open-source code and systems resulting from the published papers.

3. Location

The conference will be held in Chengdu, the capital city of the Sichuan Province in China.

4. Important Dates

Reproducibility Companion Paper - 7 Feb 2021
Workshop Proposals Submission - 20 Feb 2021
Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposal Submission - 24 Jan 2021
Multimedia Grand Challenge Proposal Notification - 14 Feb 2021
Regular Papers Submission - 3 Apr 2021 (Abstract: 27 Mar 2021)
Open Source Competition Submission - 7 Jun 2021
Brave New Ideas Submission - 31 May 2021
Interactive Artworks Submission - 15 Jun 2021
Doctorial Symposium Submission - 15 Jun 2021
Panel Proposals Submission - 15 Jun 2021
Tutorial Proposals Submission - 7 Jun 2021
Technical Demo and Video Program Submission - 15 Jun 2021
Regular Papers Notification - 3 Jul 2021
Grand Challenge Solutions Submission - 11 Jul 2021
Workshop Papers Submission - TBD

5. Organizing Committee

Honorary Chairs:

Yunhe Pan, Zhejiang University, China
Qionghai Dai, Tsinghua University, China

General Chairs:

Heng Tao Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yueting Zhuang, Zhejiang University, China
John R. Smith, IBM, USA

Technical Program Committee Chairs:

Yang Yang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Pablo Cesar, Delft University of Technology, Netherland
Florian Metze, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Local Organization Chairs:

Yimin Zhou, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Xing Xu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Finance Chairs:
Yanli Ji, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Tatsuya Harada, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Web and Social Media Chairs:

Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
Xiao Wu, Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Video Program Chairs:

Jitao Sang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Rainer Lienhart, Universität Augsburg, Germany

Panel Chairs:

Xian-Sheng Hua, Alibaba Cloud, China
Fei Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Stevan Rudinac, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Xiaochun Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Brave New Idea Track Chairs:

Chang Wen Chen, University at Baffalo, USA
Zi Huang, The University of Queensland, Australia
Qin Jin, Renmin University of China, China

Industry Track Chairs:

Changhu Wang, ByteDance AI Lab, China
Zhengyou Zhang, Tencent, China
Rongrong Ji, Xiamen University, China

Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs:

Xirong Li, Remin University, China
Lixin Duan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Lu Fang, Tsinghua University, China
David Brady, University of Arizona, USA

Reproducibility Companion Chairs:

Michael Alexander Riegler, SimulaMet, Norway
Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan

Workshop Chairs:

Meng Wang, Hefei University of Technology, China
Peng Wang, The University of Wollongong, Australia
Piotr Koniusz, Data61/CSIRO & Australian National University, Australia
Lianli Gao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Technical Demo Chairs:

Jingkuan Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Richang Hong, Hefei University of Technology, China

Tutorials Chair:

Changsheng Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Interactive Arts Chair:

Ning Xie, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Open Source Software Chairs:

Jingdong Wang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Qi Dai, Microsoft Research Asia, China

Sponsor Chairs:

Tao Mei, Jingdong, China
Qi Tian, Huawei, China

Travel Grant Chairs:

Fumin Shen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Huimin Lu, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Publicity Chairs:

Ann Morrison, Aalborg University, Denmark
Jinhui Tang, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Proceedings Chairs:

Liqiang Nie, Shandong University, China
Hanwang Zhang, Nanyang University of Technology, Singapore
Peng Cui, Tsinghua University, China

History Preservation Chair:

Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Doctoral Symposium Chairs:

Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Bing Zeng, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Best Paper Committee Chair:

Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Registration Chairs:

Wen Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University, China