Call for Papers: IEEE ISMAR 2025

Overview

ISMAR 2025 will host a single track for papers with a revise and resubmit phase, strengthening the rebuttal opportunity. The conference covers industry and research activities related to the full range of immersive technologies (AR, MR, and VR), including interfaces in the real world, fully immersive experiences, and beyond. Contributions advancing all aspects of AR / MR / VR technology and user experiences are invited.

Paper Submissions

This year, there is one submission deadline for a unified review process for both the IEEE TVCG journal and the conference-only papers. The possible outcomes of this unified process are:

• Accept as IEEE TVCG paper, with presentation at ISMAR 2025
• Accept as IEEE ISMAR 2025 conference paper, with presentation at ISMAR 2025
• Recommended as IEEE ISMAR 2025 poster.
• Reject

Submissions accepted as journal papers will be directly published in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG). Submissions accepted as conference papers will be published in the conference proceedings of ISMAR 2025. All accepted papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library and will be subject to registration and publication processing policies.

Submissions may be 4-9 pages with an additional 2 pages of references. A paper abstract must be uploaded prior to the actual paper submission deadline. All paper submissions must be in English and left blind for review. Accepted papers will be granted an oral presentation during the conference and will have the opportunity to present as a demo if desired.

Important Deadlines

1. Abstract deadline: April 4th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday)
2. Paper submission deadline: April 11th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday)
3. Workshops deadline: May 2nd, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday)
4. Tutorials deadline: May 9th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Friday) [Changed or passed]
5. Doctoral Consortium deadline: June 9th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Monday) [Changed or passed]
6. Poster Papers deadline: July 29th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Tuesday)
7. Demos deadline: July 29th, 2025 (23:59 AoE, Tuesday)

Workshop Papers deadlines are available on respective workshop websites.

Review Process

The review process will have two cycles under the single submission deadline.

Review Cycle I (Submission to Initial Notification)

Submissions will be assigned to two members of the ISMAR 2025 International Program Committee (IPC). Submissions that violate the submission guidelines will be desk rejected. Those not desk rejected will receive at least three full reviews.

Based on the reviews and initial discussions, the Program Chairs will make one of the following initial recommendations:

• Revise and Resubmit: These submissions will go through the second review cycle. Note that this does not guarantee acceptance.
• Reject: Authors of rejected submissions will be able to resubmit to the poster track.

Review Cycle II (Revision with Rebuttal to Final Decision)

Authors will have time to revise their submissions and write a rebuttal. The revised submission and rebuttal will be reviewed by the original reviewers. Based on these reviews, a final recommendation (journal, conference, poster, or rejection) will be made by the committee. Minor revisions may be required before final acceptance of camera-ready versions.

Topics of Interest

All topics relevant to and advancing AR, MR, and VR are of interest. A strong and explicit connection to AR, MR, and/or VR is essential. VR papers are welcome regardless of their relevance to AR/MR. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligence / Machine learning
• Assistive technologies and applications
• Camera and projector-camera calibration
• Collaborative interfaces
• Computer vision
• Content creation/authoring and content management
• Conversational and speech interfaces
• Display technologies (e.g., eyewear, smartwatches, projectors)
• Diversity and inclusivity issues
• Ethical issues
• Ergonomics and human factors
• Free viewpoint image generation
• Haptic and tactile interfaces, wearable haptics, passive haptics, pseudo haptics
• Human augmentations
• Human-computer interaction
• Immersive visual analytics
• Localization, spatial registration, and tracking
• Locomotion and navigation techniques
• Mediated and diminished reality
• Multimodal input and output
• Omnidirectional, 360, immersive videos
• Optics
• Perception
• Presence, body ownership, and agency
• Psychology
• Real-time performance issues
• Rendering techniques
• Sensor fusion
• Spatial audio, auditory perception, and psychoacoustics
• Spatial AR, projection mapping, projector-camera systems
• System architectures, distributed, and online systems
• Touch, tangible, and gesture interfaces
• Technology acceptance and social implications
• Teleoperation, telepresence, and telexistence
• User experience, usability studies, and human-subjects experiments
• VR simulations of AR/MR
• Virtual production
• Virtual humans and avatars
• Visualization techniques

AR/MR/VR applications from domains include, but are not limited to:

• Architecture
• Art, cultural heritage, education and training
• Automotive and aerospace
• Entertainment, sports broadcast
• Health, wellbeing, and medical applications
• Industrial, military, emergency response
• Therapy and rehabilitation

Contact Information

For questions, contact: program2025@ieeeismar.net

ISMAR 2025 Scientific Program Chairs:

• Ulrich Eck
• Gun Lee
• Alexander Plopski
• Missie Smith
• Qi Sun
• Markus Tatzgern