Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished research papers in the broad field of content-based multimedia indexing and applications. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main problem of search and retrieval but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia content management, user interaction, large-scale search, learning in retrieval, social media indexing and retrieval. In addition, special sessions on specific technical aspects or application domains are planned (currently the Call for Special Sessions [link] is still open)

Authors can submit full length (6 pages – to be presented as oral presentation) or short papers (4 pages – to be presented as posters). The submissions are peer reviewed in a single blind process. The language of the conference is English. The CBMI 2022. conference adheres to the IEEE paper formatting guidelines. When preparing your submission, please follow the IEEE guidelines given by IEEE at the Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings.

The CBMI proceedings are traditionally indexed and distributed by IEEE Xplore and ACM DL. In addition, authors of certain best papers of the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special issue of a leading journal in the field (e.g. MTAP – Springer).

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following:

Content analysis and indexing

Audio and visual and multimedia indexing
Multimodal and cross-modal indexing
Deep learning for multimedia analysis and indexing
Audio (speech, music, etc) and visual content analysis and understanding
Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events
Social media analysis
Metadata generation, coding and transformation
Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing
New technologies for indexing, for example, bio-inspired, spiking neural networks

Search, retrieval and recommendation

Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
Mobile media retrieval
Event-based media retrieval
Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval
Multimedia data mining and analytics
Multimedia retrieval for multimodal analytics and visualisation
Multimedia recommendation
Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact checking, deep fake analysis)
Large scale multimedia database management
Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content
Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Multimedia user experience

User interaction and relevance feedback
Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools
Personalization and content adaptation
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality interfaces for multimedia search

Applications of multimedia indexing and retrieval, e.g., cultural heritage, medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, augmented and mixed reality, video surveillance, forensics, security, atmosphere and astronomy.