Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval.

ACM ICMR 2012 is soliciting original high quality papers addressing challenging issues in the broad field of multimedia retrieval.

Topics of Interest (not limited to)

• Content/semantic/affective based indexing and retrieval
• Large-scale and web-scale multimedia processing
• Integration of content, meta data and social network
• Scalable and distributed search
• User behavior and HCI issues in multimedia retrieval
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics
• Multimedia fusion
• High performance indexing algorithms
• Machine learning for multimedia retrieval
• Ontology for annotation and search
• 3D video and model processing
• Large-scale summarization and visualization
• Performance evaluation
• Very large scale multimedia corpus
• Navigation and browsing on the Web
• Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
• Database architectures for storage and retrieval
• Novel multimedia data management systems and applications
• Applications in forensic, biomedical image and video collections


Important Dates

Paper Submission: January 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2012
Camera-Ready Papers Due: April 5, 2012