International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing Call for Papers

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CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING

University of Lille, Cité scientifique, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
28-30 June 2021

cbmi2021.univ-lille.fr

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CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various
communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia
indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and
analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are
not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia
indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for
multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music,
etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic
regions and events, social media analysis.

The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL
laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France, following the
successful previous editions of Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes
2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble
2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, Klagenfurt 2014, Prague
2015, Bucharest 2016, Firenze 2017, La Rochelle 2018, and Dublin 2019.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research
papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and
applications. We wish to highlight significant contributions
addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the
related and equally important issues of multimedia content management,
user interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social
media indexing and retrieval. Additional special sessions are planned
in areas such as deep learning for retrieval, social media retrieval,
cultural heritage, surveillance and security.

Authors can submit full length (6 pages - to be presented as oral
presentation) or short papers (4 pages - to be presented as
posters). Papers can be submitted to the regular paper sessions, demo
session, or to one of the special sessions. Additionally demonstration
papers (up to 4 pages) may also be submitted that highlight
interesting and novel demos of CBMI-related technologies. The
submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process. The language
of the conference is English. The CBMI 2021 conference adheres to the
IEEE paper formatting guidelines. When preparing your submission,
please follow the IEEE guidelines given by IEEE at the Manuscript
Templates for Conference Proceedings.

The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE
Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of certain best papers of the
conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their
contributions to a special issue of a leading journal in the field
(e.g. MTAP - Springer), and other best papers will be invited to
submit extended versions of their contributions in a book (ISTE/WILEY
publisher).

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited
to, the following:
. Audio and visual and multimedia indexing
. Multimodal and cross-modal indexing
. Deep learning for multimedia indexing
. Visual content extraction
. Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction
. Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events
. Social media analysis
. Metadata generation, coding and transformation
. Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
. Mobile media retrieval
. Event-based media processing and retrieval
. Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
. Multimedia data mining and analytics
. Multimedia recommendation
. Large scale multimedia database management
. Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
. Personalization and content adaptation
. User interaction and relevance feedback
. Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools
. Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems
. Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance
. Cultural heritage applications

Important Information:

Conference date : 28-30 June 2021, at Lille, France. 
Contact: cbmi2021-organisation@univ-lille.fr
Deadline for special session proposals: 15 October 2020
Deadline for regular paper and demo submissions : 15 January 2021
Notification of acceptance : 15 March 2021
Camera-ready papers due : 30 March 2021 

STUDENT PARTICIPATION: 
We strongly encourage students to participate
in CBMI-21 event and submit their research. We strongly believe in
their power and they are the future of the research in content-based
multimedia indexing. For these reasons and for the first time in the
history of the conference, the 2021 edition of CBMI with support of
ACM SIGMM (www.sigmm.org), will sponsor several students, authors of
papers submitted and accepted by CBMI-21, and being corresponding
author of a paper. The student status will be recognized only to PhDs
and master students. Certain students will be totally sponsored,
including registration fees, accommodations and travel expenses. Other
students will be partly sponsored, including substantial reduction in
the registration fees, no cut-backs to the students’ conference
experience, and budget accommodation options and arrangement for room
sharing.

Furthermore, in this edition, prizes will be awarded to the best
student poster presentations of CBMI2021. All the participants
registered to CBMI2021 as student will be automatically admitted to
the selection for the awards. All the papers accepted as poster
presentation by the Technical Program Committee (TPC), from students
will be considered for the awards, given that a full-paper manuscript
has been submitted.

The student poster awards committee will evaluate the nominated
contributions during the poster sessions of CBMI2021. The evaluation
criteria will be independently established by the Committee before the
conference and will take into account the scientific content as well
as the technical quality of the posters.

The Student Poster Awards will be announced during the Gala Dinner, on
June 29th.