SISAP 2025: Call for Papers

The 18th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2025) will be held in Reykjavik, Iceland, October 1-3, 2025.

SISAP is an annual forum for researchers and application developers in the area of similarity data management. It aims at the technological problems shared by numerous application domains, such as data mining, information retrieval, multimedia retrieval, computer vision, pattern recognition, computational biology, geography, biometrics, machine learning, and many others that make use of similarity search as a necessary supporting service. Since 2021, SISAP has been a CORE Rank B conference.

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important Dates

Regular and Special Session Papers

• Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2025 (AoE)
• Paper submission deadline: June 1, 2025 (AoE)
• Acceptance notification: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera-ready due: July 31, 2025 (AoE)

Demonstration and Doctoral Symposium Papers

• Paper submission deadline: June 16, 2025 (AoE)
• Acceptance notification: July 14, 2025 (AoE)
• Camera-ready due: July 31, 2025 (AoE)

Special Session Proposals

• Special Session Proposal deadline: February 24, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification: February 26, 2025 (AoE)

All deadlines are given in Anywhere on Earth time.

Submission Guidelines

Papers have to be submitted in PDF format through EasyChair. Please see the submission guidelines.

Paper Types

• Full papers: (9 to 14 pages) are expected to be descriptions of complete technical work.
• Short papers: (up to 8 pages) can describe innovative approaches or preliminary results.
• Vision papers and other position papers: should be submitted as short research papers.

Special Sessions

Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on one state-of-the-art research direction within the field of similarity search and applications. For SISAP 2025, contributions are called for the following two special sessions:

• IRMC: Interactive Retrieval for Multimedia Collections (organized by Omar Shahbaz Khan, Rahel Arnold, Fabio Carrara, Ujjwal Sharma)
• BRIDGES: Bridging Past and Present: Similarity Search for Digital Cultural Heritage and GLAM Content (organized by Rahel Arnold, Dominik Bönisch, Fabrizio Falchi,Peter Fornaro, Luca Rossetto, Heiko Schuldt)

Demonstration Papers

SISAP 2025 invites novel, impactful demonstrations aligned with its topics of interest. Submissions (up to 8 pages, including references) must include a mandatory 1-page PDF appendix describing how the demo will be conducted on-site.

Please see the call for Demonstrations for more details.

Doctoral Symposium Papers

SISAP 2025 Doctoral Symposium provides a forum for PhD students to present their research ideas and receive feedback from senior members of the research community.

Please see the call for Doctoral Symposium Papers for more details.

Topics of Interest

Please see the topics of interest page for more details.

Awards

A small selection of the best papers presented at the conference will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems. The Best Paper will be recognized with a certificate and a monetary prize, thanks to Springer's sponsorship.