SCOPE

The purpose of SIGMAP 2020, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:
1. MULTIMEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
2. MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING
3. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
4. MULTIMEDIA AND VISION
5. MULTIMEDIA AND DEEP LEARNING
6. MULTIMEDIA INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL
7. SOCIAL MULTIMEDIA

AREA 1: MULTIMEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

    Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting
    Interactive Multimedia: Games and Digital Television
    Mobile and Wearable Multimedia
    Multimedia Devices
    Multimedia Internet of Things
    Multimedia Security and Cryptography
    Performance Measurement and Evaluation, QoS

AREA 2: MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING

    Biometrics and Pattern Recognition
    Text and Image Document analysis
    Dimensionality Reduction, multiple classifiers and data fusion
    Education in Signal Processing
    Multidimensional Signal Processing
    Multimodal Signal Processing
    Music, Speech and Audio Processing
    Neural Networks, Spiking Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
    Perceptual/Human Audiovisual System Modeling
    Sensors and Multimedia

AREA 3: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

    3D Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Environments and Surveillance Applications
    Multimedia Security, Privacy and Forensics
    Secure Multimedia Transmission
    Biomedical Applications
    Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
    Multimedia Databases
    Multimedia Human-Computer Interaction
    Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
    Multimedia and Big Data
    Multimedia in Cloud Computing and Applications
    Multimedia Entertainment

AREA 4: MULTIMEDIA AND VISION

    Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation
    Video content analytics
    Multimodal Image Analysis and Understanding
    Image/Video Summarization and Visualization
    Multimedia Processing for Augmented and/or Virtual Reality (3D telepresence)
    Multi-camera Coding and Streaming

AREA 5: MULTIMEDIA AND DEEP LEARNING

    Deep Representation Learning from Multimedia Inputs
    Deep Learning for Multimodal Data Analytics
    Cross Modal Transfer Learning for Multimedia Analysis
    Adversarial Deep Learning Methods for Generative Multimedia Applications
    Deep Learning for Audio-Visual Sounds Source separation and Localization
    Deep Multimodal Embeddings

AREA 6: MULTIMEDIA INDEXING AND RETRIEVAL

    Multimedia Recommendation
    Visual Search
    Summarization and Semantic Abstraction of Multimedia Content
    Multimodal Cross-modal Indexing and Retrieval
    Social Media Indexing and Retrieval
    Semantic Aware Multimedia indexing (e.g., affect, sentiment, interest)
    Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems
    Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval (e.g., lifelogs, culture, video surveillance)
    Hashing and Indexing for Large Scale Multimedia Retrieval
    Cross-media Retrieval

AREA 7: SOCIAL MULTIMEDIA

    Crowdsourced Multimedia Analysis and Applications
    Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia
    Mobile and Social Media Analysis
    Socual Multimedia for User Profiling and Customization
    Social Network Analysis
    Collecting Large Scale Social Signal Data
    Emotional Multimedia content Tagging

ICETE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

ICETE 2019 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.