Call for Regular Papers

ACM ICMR 2025 is calling for high quality original papers addressing innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its related broad fields. The main scope of the conference is not only search and retrieval of multimedia data but also analysis and understanding of multimedia contents including community-contributed social data, lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data, integration of diverse multimodal data, deep learning-based methodology and practical multimedia applications.

Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference. They will have both oral and poster presentations at the conference. Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions. They will be presented as posters at the conference.

Topics of Interest

• Multimedia content-based search and retrieval,
• Multimedia-content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems,
• Large-scale and Web-scale multimedia retrieval,
• Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing,
• Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery,
• Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks,
• Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning,
• Fine-grained retrieval for multimedia,
• Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding,
• Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features,
• Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia,
• Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, and affect,
• Synthetic media generation and detection,
• Narrative generation and narrative analysis,
• User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval,
• Query processing and relevance feedback,
• Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization,
• Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data,
• Mobile multimedia browsing and search,
• Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA,
• Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search,
• Privacy-aware multimedia retrieval methods and systems,
• Fairness and explainability in multimedia analysis/search,
• Legal, ethical and societal impact of multimedia retrieval research,
• Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., news/journalism, media, medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, and environment.

Maximum Length of a Paper

• Long research paper: Each long research paper should not be longer than 8 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.
• Short research paper: Each short research paper should not be longer than 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: Feb 23, 2025
• Paper Notification: Apr 18, 2025
• Camera-Ready Due: May 4, 2025

Review Style

ACM ICMR follows a double-blind review process for full paper selection. Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the name(s) of the author(s). Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors:

• Do not put your names under the title.
• Avoid using phrases such as “our previous work” when referring to earlier publications by the authors.
• Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs).
• Check supplemental material for information that may identify the authors’ identity.
• Avoid providing links to Websites that identify the authors.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract and the keywords form the primary source for assigning papers to reviewers. So make sure that they form a concise and complete summary of your paper with sufficient information to let someone who has not read the full paper know what it is about.

Submission Instructions

See the Paper Submission section.

Presentation Format

ACM ICMR 2025 will be an in-person event. All oral talks and demonstrations must be on-site at the conference venue, otherwise they will be removed from the proceedings and no refund given. This includes full papers, BNI papers and doctoral symposium papers. Posters should be presented at the conference, but we will also facilitate online posters using our online conference platform. This platform requires the upload of a poster and short accompanying video. We will be strictly enforcing this policy across all submission types.

We expect and require that for each accepted paper at least one author fully (non-student) register into the conference before the camera-ready deadline. We are working on a way to allow remote presentation in case authors are unable to join in person.