After attracting around 1500 attendees (both physical and remote) last year, ACM MHV 2023 welcomes contributions from both industry and academia to share real-world problems and solutions as well as novel approaches and innovations from content production to consumption. ACM MHV 2023 will provide a unique opportunity to view the interplay of the industry and academia in the area of video technologies.

ACM MHV contributions are solicited in, but not limited to the following areas:

    Content production, encoding and packaging

        Encoding for broadcast, mobile and OTT, and using AI/ML in encoding
        New and emerging audio, image and video codecs (incl. point cloud coding, light field coding, holography coding, etc.)
        Edge, network and cloud-based coding
        Perceptually optimized objective quality metrics
        Quality assessment models and tools, and user experience studies
        Storage applications for video processing and streaming
        Accessibility
        HDR

    Workflows

        Virtualized headends, cloud-based workflows for production and distribution
        Redundancy and resilience in content origination
        Ingest protocols
        Ad insertion

    Content delivery and security

        Developments in transport protocols and new delivery paradigms
        Protection for OTT distribution and tools against piracy
        Analytics

    Streaming technologies

        Adaptive streaming and transcoding
        Low latency
        Player, playback and QoE developments
        Content discovery, promotion and recommendation systems
        Protocol and Web API improvements and innovations for streaming video

    Industry trends

        Metaverse and interactive and immersive (xR) video and audio
        Video coding for machines
        Cloud gaming and gaming streaming
        Provenance, content authentication and deepfakes
        Energy management in video compression and streaming
        Edge computing tools and applications
        Hardware for content encoding, storage, and distribution

    Standards and interoperability

        New and developing standards in the media and delivery space
        Interoperability guidelines

Prospective speakers are invited to submit an extended abstract (one page + references) that will be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV technical program committee (TPC) for relevance, timeliness and technical correctness.

The authors of the accepted extended abstracts will be invited to optionally submit a full-length paper (up to six pages + references) for possible inclusion into the conference proceedings. These papers must be original work (i.e., not published previously in a journal or conference) and will also be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV TPC.

Accepted extended abstracts and full-length papers will be presented at the ACM MHV conference, and optionally, will be published at the conference proceedings within the ACM Digital Library. 

All prospective ACM authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.