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IMPORTANT DATES

Registration deadline for accepted paper: July 31, 2017
Camera-ready papers & registration: July 16, 2017
Acceptance notification: July 1, 2017
Paper submission deadline: May 15, 2017
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The Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is a major annual international conference organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial-track papers reporting real-world multimedia applications and system development experiences. The conference also calls for special session proposals focusing on specific emerging challenges in the multimedia arena.

PCM2017 is the 18th conference of this highly successful and increasingly influential series. It will be held in Harbin, which is the most populous city in Northeast China heralded as the Ice City for its well-known winter tourism and recreations. The city has been voted "China Top Tourist City" by China National Tourism Administration in 2004 and was appointed a "City of Music" by the UN in 2010. PCM2017 is seeking high quality submissions in the broad field of multimedia. The topics of interests include, but are not limited to the following:

1 Multimedia Content Analysis
* Multimedia Indexing
* Multimedia Mining
* Multimedia Abstraction and Summarization
* Multimedia Annotation, Tagging and Recommendation
* Multimodal Analysis for Retrieval Applications
* Semantic Analysis of Multimedia and Contextual Data
* Multimedia Fusion Methods
* Media Content Browsing and Retrieval Tools

2 Multimedia Signal Processing and Systems
* Media Representation and Algorithms
* Audio, Image, Video Processing, Coding and Compression
* Multimedia Security and Content Protection
* Multimedia Standards and Related Issues
* Multimedia Networking and Streaming
* Multimedia Databases, Content Delivery and Transport
* Wireless and Mobile Multimedia Networking

3 Multimedia Applications and Services
* Multi-Camera and Multi-View Systems
* Virtual Reality and Virtual Environment
* Real-Time and Interactive Multimedia Applications
* Mobile Multimedia Applications
* Multimedia Web Applications
* Interactive Multimedia Authoring Personalization
* Sensor Networks (Video Surveillance, Distributed Systems)
* Emerging Trends (e-learning, e-Health, Medical Imaging, Visualization, Social Media)

General Chairs

Bing Zeng , University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Qingming Huang, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa

Program Chairs
Hongliang Li, Universityof Electronic Science and Technology of China
Shuqiang Jiang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiaopeng Fan, Harbin Institute of Technology

Organizing Chairs
Shaohui Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology
Liang Li, University of Chinese Academy Sciences
Yan Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Panel Chairs
Zhu Li, University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA
Debin Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology

Publication Chairs
Shuhui Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wen-Huang Cheng, Taiwan Academia Sinica
Tongwei Ren, Nanjing University
Lu Fang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Special Session Chairs
Yan Liu , The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University
Wen Ji, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinqiao Shi, Chinese Academy Sciences
Feng Jiang, Harbin Institute of Technology

Tutorial Chairs
Zheng-jun Zha, Hefei Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Siwei Ma, Peking University
Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hongkong
Ruiqin Xiong, Peking University

Publicity Chairs
Liang Lin, Sun Yat-sen University
Luis Herranz, Computer Vision Center, Spain
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam and Qualcomm Research Netherlands
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Zi Huang, The University of Queensland, Australia

Sponsorship Chair
Wangmeng Zuo, Harbin Institute of Technology
Luhong Liang, ASTRI, Hong Kong
Ke Lv, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Registration Chair
Guorong Li, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shuyuan Zhu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Wenbin Yin, Harbin Institute of Technology

Finance Chair
Weiqing Min, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wenbin Che, Harbin Institute of Technology

PCM2017 conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be EI-indexed.