Call for Papers - PCS 2025

Dear visitors, colleagues and friends,

The Organizing Committee for the 2025 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS 2025) cordially invites you to participate at the conference to be held at the SuperC of RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

PCS 2025 provides an excellent opportunity to meet the long-term Chair of the Joint Video Expert Team of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC29 and ITU-T SG16 Prof. Jens-Rainer Ohm, the honorary chair of this PCS 2025, who by this time will have retired from his university position at RWTH Aachen University.

In 2025, PCS will host the well-known Challenge on Learned Image Compression (CLIC) for the first time. This challenge aims to advance the field of image and video compression using machine learning and computer vision. It is also an opportunity to evaluate and compare end-to-end trained approaches against classical approaches. CLIC submissions include a white paper on the submitted technology. Submitters are invited to submit a full paper for peer-review and publication in PCS. We are looking forward to exciting results from this quickly developing field.

PCS is the longest-running conference in the field of image processing and compression. Since its first edition in 1969, PCS has been held every one and a half years in various countries. Attendees come from all over the world, including renowned names from academia and industry.

Featuring world-class speakers, PCS 2025 is an excellent platform to foster innovative, state-of-the-art research and to network the brightest minds of the academia and industry in visual data coding and processing.

Topics

• Image and video coding
• Model-based and synthetic coding
• Screen content coding
• Multimodal coding and processing
• Learning-based image and video coding
• Learning-assisted image and video coding
• Image and video coding for machines
• Multi-task image and video coding
• Compressed-domain image/video analysis
• Datasets for learning-based visual data coding and analysis
• Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality coding
• 360° and multi-view video processing and coding
• Point cloud processing and coding
• Light field processing and coding
• Immersive and volumetric video coding
• Representation and analysis of immersive and volumetric scenes
• Emerging standards for visual data coding
• Objective and subjective quality assessment
• Transcoding and adaptive streaming
• Optimized streaming for coded visual data
• Real-time video communications
• Error robustness, resilience and concealment
• Low complexity video coding
• Network-, edge- and cloud-based coding
• Energy management in visual data coding
• Circuits and systems for visual data processing and coding
• Protection and integrity of visual data

Deadlines

• Submission of Special Session Proposals: 28.05.2025
• CLIC Open Leaderboard: 01.06.2025
• Acceptance Notification Special Session Proposals: 12.06.2025
• Paper Submission Start: 13.06.2025
• Paper Submission Deadline: 08.07.2025
• Paper Acceptance Notification: 08.09.2025
• Author Registration Deadline: 15.10.2025
• CLIC-Challenge: 08.12.2025
• Conference: 08.-11.12.2025

Publication

• Published by IARIA Press (operated by Xpert Publishing Services)
• Archived in the Open Access IARIA ThinkMind Digital Library
• Prints available at Curran Associates, Inc.
• Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a IARIA Journal.

Contact Information

Team PCS 2025
Silke Kenzler Conference Management
Karla-Schmidt-Str. 14
D-30655 Hannover
Deutschland
Tel: +49 (0)511 65581860
Fax: +49 (0)511 65581861
E-Mail: pcs2025@kcmweb.de

Registration

Registration is now open. Please have a look here.