Topics of Interest

The traditional topics of interest include:

Multimedia Content Analysis

Multimedia indexing
Multimedia mining
Multimedia abstraction and summarisation
Multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation
Multimodal analysis for retrieval applications
Semantic analysis of multimedia and contextual data
Interactive learning
Multimedia knowledge acquisitionand construction
Multimedia verification
Multimedia fusion methods
Multimedia content generation

Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

Media representation and algorithms
Multimedia sensors and interaction modes
Multimedia privacy, security and content protection
Multimedia standards and related issues
Multimedia databases, query processing, and scalability
Multimedia content delivery, transport and streaming
Wireless and mobile multimedia networking
Sensor networks (video surveillance, distributed systems)
Audio, image, video processing, coding and compression
Multi-camera and multi-view systems

Multimedia Applications and Services

Media content retrieval, browsing and recommendation tools
Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) and virtual environments
Real-time and interactive multimedia applications
Multimedia analytics applications
Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia
Urban and satellite multimedia
Mobile multimedia applications
Question answering, multimodal conversational AI and hybrid intelligence
Multimedia authoring and personalization
Cultural, educational and social multimedia applications
Multimedia for e-health and medical applications

Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects of Multimedia

Fairness, accountability, transparency and ethics in multimedia modeling
Environmental footprint of multimedia modeling
Large multimedia models and LLMs
Multimodal pretraining and representation learning
Reproducibility, interpretability,explainability and robustness
Embodied multimodal applications and tasks
Responsible multimedia modeling and learning
Legal and ethical aspects of multimodal generative AI
Multimedia research valorisation
Digital transformation