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


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 ìbiggest of big dataî as
the foundation of todayís 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,
todayís 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:
Workshop Proposals due: September 30, 2017

Workshop Proposal Notification: October 20, 2017

Regular (6 pages) and Short Paper (4 pages) Submission: October 1st, 2017

Notification of Acceptance: November 20th, 2017

Wild and Crazy Idea (4 pages) and Demo Paper (2 pages) Submission: November 30th, 2017

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

Camera Ready and Author Registration: January 20th, 2018