CALL FOR PAPERS
18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications SIGMAP

website: http://www.sigmap.org

July 6 - 8, 2021 Online Streaming


Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.


IMPORTANT DATES:

Regular Paper Submission: February 16, 2021
Authors Notification (regular papers): April 15, 2021
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: April 29, 2021


Position Paper Submission: April 1, 2021
Authors Notification (position papers): May 6, 2021
Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: May 19, 2021

Scope:
The purpose of SIGMAP 2021, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.

Conference Topics:
Area 1: Multimedia Networking and Communication
- Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting
- Multimedia Digital Television
- Multimodal Image Analysis and Understanding
- Video Streaming
- Secure Multimedia Transmission
- Multimedia Security, Privacy and Forensics
- Multi-Camera Coding and Streaming
- Channel Coding
- Multimedia Processing for Augmented And/Or Virtual Reality (3D Telepresence)

Area 2: Multimedia Signal Processing
- Image and Video Coding
- Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation
- Point Cloud Compression
- Optical Signal Processing
- Music, Speech and Audio Processing
- Multimodality
- Multidimensional Signal Processing
- Sensors and Multimedia
- Steganography

Area 3: Multimedia Systems and Applications
- Video Surveillance
- Image/Video Analysis, Tagging and Summarization
- Multimedia Databases
- Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data
- Multimedia Cross-Modal Indexing and Retrieval
- Multimedia Entertainment
- Biomedical Applications

Area 4: Multimedia and Deep Learning
- Deep Representation Learning from Multimedia Inputs
- Deep Learning for Multimodal Data Analytics
- Cross Modal Transfer Learning for Multimedia Analysis
- Adversarial Deep Learning Methods for Generative Multimedia Applications
- Deep Learning for Audio-Visual Sounds Source Separation and Localization
- Deep Multimodal Embeddings

Area 5: Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
- Multimedia Recommendation
- Cross-Media Retrieval
- Visual Search
- Summarization and Semantic Abstraction of Multimedia Content
- Multimodal Cross-Modal Indexing and Retrieval
- Social Media Indexing and Retrieval
- Semantic Aware Multimedia Indexing (E.G., Affect, Sentiment, Interest)
- Evaluation of Multimedia Retrieval Systems
- Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval (E.G., Lifelogs, Culture, Video Surveillance)
- Hashing and Indexing for Large Scale Multimedia Retrieval

Area 6: Social Multimedia
- Crowdsourced Multimedia Analysis and Applications
- Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia
- Mobile and Social Media Analysis
- Socual Multimedia for User Profiling and Customization
- Social Network Analysis
- Collecting Large Scale Social Signal Data
- Emotional Multimedia Content Tagging


SIGMAP KEYNOTE LECTURE
Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, United States
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, United States


SIGMAP CONFERENCE CHAIR:
Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States

SIGMAP PROGRAM CHAIR:
Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
http://www.sigmap.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx

SIGMAP Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
Tel: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
Web: http://www.sigmap.org
e-mail: sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org