Topics of interest to the CBMI community include (but are not limited to) the following:

Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing:

    Media content analysis and mining
    AI/ML approaches for content understanding
    Multimodal and cross-modal indexing
    Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing and retrieval 
    Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
    Conversational search and question-answering systems
    Multimedia recommendation
    Multimodal analytics, summarization, visualization, organization and browsing of multimedia content
    Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)
    Large multimedia models, large language models and vision language models
    Explainability in multimedia learning
    Large scale multimedia database management
    Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Multimedia User Experiences:

    Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) interfaces
    Mobile interfaces
    Presentation and visualization tools
    Affective adaptation and personalization
    Relevance feedback and interactive learning

Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:

    Multimedia and sustainability
    Healthcare and medical applications
    Cultural heritage and entertainment applications
    Educational and social applications
    Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia
    Applications to forensics, surveillance and security
    Environmental and urban multimedia applications
    Earth observation and astrophysics