The First (2018) IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'18)

http://www.ieee-mipr.org
April 10-12, 2018, Miami, FL, USA

(Regular/short/industrial paper submission deadline extended to: Oct. 30th!)

Highlights of the conference:
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A multimedia retreat/summit will be held in conjunction with MIPR where
invited leaders in multimedia society gather to discuss the future directions
of multimedia research, and all attendees are welcome to attend. A
report will be produced to share with the community after the conference.

Featured Keynote Speakers:
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Chang Wen Chen
IEEE Fellow, SPIE Fellow
Professor, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Dean and Professor, School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Ramesh Jain
Professor, University of California, USA

Klara Nahrstedt
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Edward Y. Chang
President, HTC Research and Healthcare

Wen Gao
ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Chinese Academy of Engineering
Professor, Peking University, China
President, China Computer Federation (CCF)
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New forms of multimedia data (such as text, numbers, tags, networking, signals,
geo-tagged information, graphs/relationships, 3D/VR/AR and sensor data, etc.)
has emerged in many applications in addition to traditional multimedia data
(image, video, audio). Multimedia has become the biggest of big data as
the foundation of today’s data-driven discoveries. Almost all disciplines of
science and engineering, as well as social sciences, involve multimedia data
in some forms, such as recording experiments, driverless cars, unmanned aerial
vehicles, smart communities, biomedical instruments, security surveillance.
Some recent events demonstrate the power of real-time broadcast of unfolding
events on social networks. Multimedia data is not just big in volume, but also
multi-modal and mostly unstructured. Storing, indexing, searching, integrating,
and recognizing from the vast amounts of data create unprecedented challenges.
Even though significant progress has been made processing multimedia data,
today’s solutions are inadequate handling data from millions of sources
simultaneously. The first IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information
Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR) will take place in Miami, Florida, USA on
April 10-12, 2018. The conference will provide a forum for original research
contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications
of multimedia information processing and retrieval for single modality or
multiple modalities. The target audiences will be university researchers,
scientists, industry practitioners, software engineers, and graduate students
who need to become acquainted with technologies for big data analytics, machine
intelligence, information fusion in multimedia information processing and retrieval.
A collection of keynotes, open panels, and workshops will be held, together
with paper/poster sessions.

The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages),
and demo papers (2 pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches,
qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength
and weakness of the new approaches. In addition, a special track encourages
"wild and crazy ideas" (4 pages). Selected submissions will be invited to submit
to journal special issues.

The conference includes (but not limited) the following topics of multimedia
data processing and retrieval.

Retrieval
* Multimedia Search and Recommendation
* Web-Scale Retrieval
* Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
* 3D and sensor data retrieval
* Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval
* High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features

Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
* Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion
* Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
* High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
* Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

Content Understanding and Analytics
* Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
* Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
* Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
* Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans

Multimedia and Vision
* Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Visual Concept Detection
* Object Detection and Tracking
* 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications

Networking for Multimedia Systems
* Internet Scale System Design
* Information Coding for Content Delivery

Systems and Infrastructures
* Multimedia Systems and Middleware
* Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
* Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing

Data Management
* Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
* Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
* Standards and Policies for Data Management

Novel Applications
* Multimedia Forensics and Security
* Urban planning and emergency responses
* Environmental monitoring
* Education (using Multimedia for Education or Education about Multimedia)

Internet of Multimedia Things
* Real-Time Data Processing
* Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
* Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

Important Dates:
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Regular (6 pages) and Short Paper (4 pages) Submission: October 30th, 2017

Industrial/Government/Application track Submission: October 30th, 2017

Notification of Acceptance: November 30th, 2017

Wild and Crazy Idea (4 pages) and Demo Paper (2 pages) Submission: December 15th, 2017

Notification of Wild and Crazy Idea and Demo Paper Acceptance: January 10th, 2018

Camera Ready and Author Registration: January 20th, 2018