The workshop is the 23rd in the series, organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), with the aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry, passionate about multimedia signal processing, to share their knowledge, exchange ideas, explore future research directions and network.

Prospective authors are invited to submit regular and special session papers (full length, 4-6 pages), demo papers (1 page) and grand challenge contributions. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

- Image / video analysis
- Image / video compression
- Image / video restoration and processing
- Machine listening for analysis of acoustic scenes
- Speech / music / audio processing
- Sound source localization and separation
- Multimedia communications and networking
- Multimedia quality assessment
- Internet of Things (IoT)-based multimedia systems and applications
- Multimedia hardware design
- Multimedia databases and digital libraries
- Multimedia security and forensics
- Multimedia interaction
- Multimedia big data analytics
- Deep learning for multimedia
- Multimedia processing for tele-medicine and health care
- Augmented, mixed and virtual reality
- Multimedia systems for emerging applications