ICIMCS 2018 calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial track papers reporting real multimedia applications and system development experiences. The conference will include oral and poster presentations. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas related to multimedia technologies and applications:
• Large-scale multimedia analysis and retrieval
• Multimedia systems and applications
• Web scale multimedia annotation and classification
• Multimedia communications,transmission and system
• Multimedia quality assessment
• 3D media,virtual and augmented reality
• Interactive media and HCI
• Mobile multimedia computing
• Social multimedia analysis and application
• Computer vision/machine learning for multimedia application.

The conference also calls for papers for the special sessions as follows:
• Imaging information processing and application
• Sequence analytics and its applications
• Deep learning for multimedia understanding
• Cross-media analysis and application

All the papers of ICIMCS 2018 will be published in ACM proceeding. All previous ICIMCS papers have been indexed by EI. High quality papers will be be invited to submit extended versions to the following special issues of SCI-indexed journals:
• "Multi-platform multimedia data analysis and modeling" in Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF = 1.530)
• "Multimedia recommendation and multi-modal data analysis" in Multimedia Systems (IF = 2.207)
• "Artificial intelligence and robotics" in Computers & Electrical Engineering (IF = 1.570)
• "Cognitive computing for intelligence multimedia systems" in Multimedia Tools and Applications (IF = 1.530)
• "Multimodal cooperation for multimedia computing" in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (IF = 2.164)

A "Best Paper Award" and a "Best Student Paper Award" will be conferred to the author(s) of a full paper presented at the conference, selected by the award committee based on the marks of paper reviewing assessed by the Program Committee, and paper presentation quality assessed by session chairs at the conference venue. The "Best Student Paper Award" will be given to a paper in which the first author is a registered undergraduate or graduate student.