Aims and scope

Multimedia Systems publishes original research on multimedia and multimedia systems, including theories, methods, tools, technologies, applications, and so on. It also accepts surveys, perspective articles and brave-new-idea articles.

Coverage in Multimedia Systems includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

Multimedia systems

    Operating systems, real-time systems, distributed systems and cyber-physical systems
    Middleware communities
    Transport and delivery
    I/O architectures and I/O devices
    Data systems management and indexing
    Multimedia scalability and management
    Multimedia software and systems integration

Multimedia communications

    Real-time protocols
    Fog/edge/cloud computing
    Multimedia streaming, interchange and transmission
    Multimedia Internet of Things
    Multicast and group communication

Multimedia processing

    Multimedia compression, coding and editing
    Multimedia storage
    Multi-sensory experiences
    Multimedia security, privacy and rights management

Multimedia analysis

    Multimodal fusion and embedding
    Multimedia representation, retrieval, classification and description
    Multimedia search and recommendations
    Media interpretation, summarization, and understanding
    Social media computing
    Emotional multimedia analysis

Multimedia applications

    Healthcare and medicine on multimedia
    Interactions and quality of experiences
    Art and culture
    Multimedia user interfaces
    Multimedia-based education
    New integrated media