Submission link: (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smcfall24)

Call for Papers

Building on the success of the previous editions, the Fall Edition of the International Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Computing (SMC Fall 24) is soliciting quality submissions in all areas relevant to the management of multimedia.

Authors of selected papers from SMC Fall 24 will be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a special issue published on the International Journal of Semantic Computing.

Semantic Multimedia Computing aims to develop algorithms for enriching, accessing, and searching large quantities of data. Such algorithms lie at the core of tomorrows’ search engines and large-scale recommender systems. Thus, Semantic Multimedia Computing sets its focus on developing systems that are oriented to the needs of users, and that solve the challenges faced by large-scale online content and service providers. Multimedia data analytics has also applications in the full range of fields that benefit from data science, including health, telecom, entertainment, geosciences, etc.

As a result, Semantic Multimedia Computing deals with the development of technologies that make possible optimized interaction with large collections of multimedia data (e.g., images, video, and music) in real-world contexts (e.g., within social networks). That also requires a combination of mathematical models, machine learning techniques, and practical skills in algorithm development and evaluation.

This workshop aims at providing researchers and practitioners from different areas (multimedia information retrieval, recommender systems, multimedia signal processing, social network analysis, human computation) with an interdisciplinary forum to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address the challenges of next-generation systems dealing with Semantic Multimedia Computing. The workshop seeks submissions from academia, government, and industry presenting novel research results in all practical and theoretical aspects of Semantic Multimedia Computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia content analysis and search
Semantics extraction from multimedia data.
Multi-modal query expansion.
Multi-source search result reranking.
Multimedia information retrieval in a social network context
Modeling information propagation and relationships in social networks.
Collaborative recommender systems.
Social recommendation.
Interaction with multimedia content
(Affective) User profiling.
User (search/uploader) intent.
Query failure prediction.
Quality of multimedia experience.
Multimedia content management
Multimedia databases and dataspaces.
Entity retrieval.


Organizing Committee
Daniela D'Auria, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy.
Fabio Persia, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy.
Giovanni Pilato, Italian National Research Council, Italy.

Manuscripts must be written (6 pages maximum, all included) in English and follow the instructions in the Manuscript Formatting and Templates page given in ISM 2023 website at the "Submission" section.

Papers must be original and not be submitted to or accepted by any other conference or journal.

Only electronic submission will be accepted. Technical paper authors MUST submit their manuscripts through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=smcfall24).

Manuscripts may only be submitted in PDF format.

Each paper will be peer-reviewed. Papers accepted by the workshop will be published in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

For any question regarding the workshop please contact the organizers at fabio.persia@unibz.it