Call For Papers
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VCIP 2025

The 2025 edition of the Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2025)

Klagenfurt, Austria, 1-4 December 2025. 

Website: https://vcip2025.itec.aau.at

Introduction
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VCIP is the oldest conference in the field and one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE CAS Visual Signal Processing and Communications Technical Committee. Since 1986, VCIP has served as a premier forum for the exchange of fundamental and applied research in the field of visual communications and image processing. VCIP has a long tradition of showcasing pioneering technologies in visual communication and processing, and many landmark papers first appeared in VCIP. VCIP 2025 will cover new technology frontiers and new use cases, in the visual signal processing and communication areas, to discuss and envision the future of both technology and applications. VCIP 2025 inherits the tradition of previous conferences in providing a fertile ground for researchers, engineers, and professionals from academia and industry around the world. High-quality papers will be recommended to IEEE Transaction CSVT for journal extension.

THEME: SUSTAINABLE AND TRUSTWORTHY VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS IN THE AGE OF AI

Scope and Topics 
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Topics of interest include but are not limited to 

MODALITIES:
- Conventional image and video
- Stereoscopic, multi-view, and 360-degree image and video
- Light fields, point clouds, meshes, and holography 
- Multi-spectral and hyper-spectral imaging
- NeRF and Gaussian splatting-based scene representation

VISUAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATION (CONVENTIONAL & AI-BASED):
- Sensing, acquisition, representation, modeling, and registration
- Restoration, denoising, and enhancement
- Detection, recognition, understanding, retrieval, and classification
- Computational vision modeling and processing
- Perceptual-based processing
- Synthesis, rendering, and visualization
- Source coding and transmission, including standards
- Compressed domain processing
- Adaptive and low-latency streaming
- Edge, network, and cloud-based coding
- Distributed visual information processing

APPLICATIONS, SERVICES, ARCHITECTURES, AND SYSTEMS:
- Biometrics, forensics, trust, and security
- Content provenance and authenticity
- Encryption and data hiding for secure visual communications
- Augmented and virtual reality
- Personal communications and social networks
- Gaming and broadcasting
- Drones and autonomous vehicles
- Mobile and wireless visual applications and systems
- Cloud-based and distributed architectures, services and systems
- Internet of Things
- Sustainability and green systems
- Multimodal user interfaces and interaction models
- Human-Computer Interfaces
- Emerging applications, services, architectures and systems

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT:
- Subjective and objective quality assessment methodologies
- Multimodal quality assessment
- Quality of experience, notably for real-time and streaming applications
- Task-based performance assessment
- Visual quality of life
- Complexity, delay, and error resilience assessment
- Emerging performance assessment methods

Important Dates
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Grand challenge proposal submission: April 1
Special session and tutorial proposals submission: May 1
Paper submission: June 30
Demos, open source, and datasets submission: June 30

Paper Submission
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Submitted papers in regular or special sessions will be allowed up to 4 pages, including results, figures, and references, with one optional 5th page containing only references, in two-column IEEE format (please see website). Demo papers must be two pages in length with a description of proposed working systems. VCIP 2024 employs Double Blind Review; therefore, please make sure that your paper is BLIND. High-quality papers will be recommended to IEEE Trans. CSVT for journal extension.