International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing Call for Papers

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21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing
CBMI 2025
Dublin, Ireland, October 22-24, 2025

https://www.cbmi2025.org/

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Important Dates
Regular and Special Session Papers

    Paper deadline: April 23, 2025 (AoE)
    Paper notification: July 1, 2025 (AoE)
    Camera-ready and registration due: August 1, 2025 (AoE)

Demonstration Papers

    Paper deadline: June 1, 2025 (AoE)
    Paper notification: July 1, 2025 (AoE)
    Camera-ready due: August 1, 2025 (AoE)

Special Session Proposals

    Special Session proposal deadline: February 10, 2025 (AoE)


Call for Special Sessions Proposals

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all
aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing,
management, visualization and analytics. At this time we invite you to
propose special sessions for CBMI 2025. Special sessions are dedicated
conference sessions, each focusing on one state-of-the-art research
direction within the content-based multimedia indexing field. Special
session papers, which can be invited or submitted, will supplement the
regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of CBMI
2025. All special session papers will be subject to the standard
rigorous review process for CBMI.

Special session proposals must be submitted by email to the special
session chairs (submissions@cbmi2025.org) using subject "CBMI 2025
Special Session Proposal" by 10 February 2025. Proposals will be
evaluated based on the relevance to CBMI, qualifications of the
organiser(s), and the quality and community interest of the
topic/proposed potential papers. Required details for proposals are
described below.

Usually, each special session should consist of four to six
full-papers. In order to ensure the high quality of all conference
papers, all papers submitted to special sessions at CBMI 2025 will be
peer-reviewed through a standard review process. If a special session
has many high-quality submissions, some of the submissions may
potentially be moved to some regular sessions.

The review process will be coordinated with the regular technical
program review process, as coordinated by the TPC chairs. The
organisers of each special session must 2 reviews per
submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will
provide 1-2 additional reviews. Final decision on acceptance/rejection
will be made in collaboration between the special session chairs and
the CBMI 2025 TPC chairs.

Please include the following information in your proposal:

    Title of the proposed special session.

    Name, affiliation, brief biography and contact information for
    each of the organisers.

    A session abstract including significance justification and a
    brief overview of the state-of-the-art of the proposed special
    session topic.  Note: The session abstract should be in a format
    that can be copied directly to the conference website to advertise
    the session.

    List of potential papers if available, including for each paper:
    tentative title, author list, and preferably a short abstract.

    Proposal for arrangement of the reviews from session organizers
    (e.g., list of members of mini-PC for the special session).

    Description of the session format (e.g., conventional technical
    talks, short talks & panel discussion, etc..).


Call for Regular Papers

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all
aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing,
management, visualization and analytics.

The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research
papers that are addressing the various topics of interest related to
the conference. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects
and applications of CBMI in the new era of Artificial Intelligence and
foundation/language-backed-backed models for multimedia for
multimedia. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished
research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing
these topics.

Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + references) or short papers
(4 pages + references).

Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a double blind process and
the language of the conference is English. For full details on the
submission process see the submission guidelines.

Authors of high-quality papers accepted to the conference may be
invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a
special journal issue.


Call for Demonstrations

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all
aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing,
management, visualization and analytics.  We invite authors to report
on novel and compelling demonstrations in all topic areas of
CBMI. Demonstration papers are subject to peer review according to
criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or
enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.

The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages. An additional 1-2
pages should be appended to the paper that illustrate how the demo
will be conducted on-site at CBMI 2025. This additional content will
not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission
be accepted. Including a link to a video showing the demo in action is
highly encouraged. The submissions are peer-reviewed in a single-blind
process. For full details on the submission process see the submission
guidelines.

Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers,
etc.) themselves. The conference will provide a table, power outlet,
screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. If you have
special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in
your demo submission.

Topics of Interest

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)
    Foundation models, 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 and user interaction
    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
    Physical and industrial processes