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The Second IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM 2016)
April 20-22, 2016
Taipei, Taiwan
http://www.BigMM.org

Multimedia is increasingly becoming the “biggest big data” as the most important and valuable source for insights and information. It covers from everyone’s experiences to everything happening in the world. As such, multimedia big data is spurring on tremendous amount of research and development of related technologies and applications.

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (BigMM), jointly sponsored by the IEEE-TCMC (Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing) and IEEE-TCSEM (Technical Committee on Semantic Computing), is a world’s premier forum of leading scholars in the highly active multimedia big data research, development and applications. The second BigMM conference hosted by Asia University will be held in Taipei, Taiwan from April 20 to 22 in 2016.

The conference solicits high-quality original research papers in any aspect of multimedia big data. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- New theory and models for multimedia big data computing
- Ultra-high efficiency compression, coding and transmission of multimedia big data
- Content analysis and mining of multimedia big data
- Semantic retrieval of multimedia big data
- Deep learning and cloud computing for multimedia big data
- Green computing for multimedia big data (e.g., high efficiency storage)
- Security and privacy in multimedia big data
- Interaction, access, visualization of multimedia big data
- Multimedia big data systems
- Novel and incentive applications of multimedia big data in various fields (e.g., search, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, industry 4.0, transportation, and retail)

SUBMISSIONS
Regular Papers and Industry Papers - Authors are invited to submit a regular paper (two-column 8 pages maximum) or an industry paper (two-column 6 pages maximum) according to the guidelines available on the BigMM 2016 website.
Demonstration Papers - Authors are invited to submit a demonstration paper (two-column 2 pages maximum) according to the guidelines available on the BigMM 2016 website.
BigMM Challenge - Each year, the organizing committee will organize an algorithmic competition to address one grand challenge in the field of multimedia big data which is open to all tool vendors, academics and corporations. More information is available on the BigMM 2016 website.
Workshops Proposals - The organizing committee invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. These will focus on specific topics of the main conference. More information is available on the BigMM 2016 website. BigMM 2016 will showcase high quality oral and poster presentations as well as demonstration sessions. The review will be double blind and at least three reviewers are required. Best papers and demonstrations will be awarded at the conference. All papers in this conference will be included in the IEEExplore and indexed by EI. Authors of high quality papers will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues on "Multimedia Big Data" in prestigious journals including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia.

IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop Proposals: Nov 28, 2015
Regular Paper Submission: Dec 5, 2015
Demo Paper Submission: Dec 5, 2015
Industry Paper Submission: Dec 5, 2015
BigMM Challenge: Jan 1, 2016
Paper Acceptance: Jan 31, 2016
Camera-ready: Feb 14, 2016
Conference: Apr 20-22, 2016