Free access (4 weeks) to published papers:  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-22061-6

Smart  Multimedia  is  a  focused   forum  to  promote  the   exchange  of   the   latest   advances  in  multimedia technologies,  systems,  and  applications  from  the  research,  development  and  industrial  perspectives. In  addition  to  an  in-person  meeting,  considering  pandemic  travel  restrictions,  we  will  allow  some  virtual presentations and participation. Virtual attendees will receive a discount on the registration rates. If you need an invitation letter for Visa, please email to webmaster@smartmultimedia.org.

Authors  are  invited  to  submit  a  full  paper  (12-15  pages  in  Springer  format)  according  to  the  guidelines available on the conference website at www.SmartMultimedia.org . For Short / Industrial papers  8-11 pages in Springer  format  will  be needed.  Page limits may be extended by  Program Chairs  based on special requests. Electronic submissions are required.  An option for submitting Extended Abstracts instead of full final version for review will be posted on the conference website.

Indexing: The proceedings will be made available to the following indexing services: ISI & Science (CPCI-S),  EI  Engineering  Index,  ACM  Digital  Library,  DBLP,  Google  Scholar,  IO-Port,  MathSciNet,  Scopus & Zentralblatt MATH.P

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Speech, audio, image, video, text, pattern, signal and location-based media processing
• Smart Mechatronics, including Active Mechatronics
• HCI, Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Intelligent Manufacturing (Industry 4.0), Intelligent Surveillance
• Multimedia coding, retargeting and transmission
• Haptic Intelligence
• Multimedia in Medicine
• Automation in Surgery
• 3D imaging, visualization, animation, virtual reality and 3DTV
• Classification, Clustering and Machine Learning for Multimedia
• Smart (including self-driving) Cars, Smart Homes
• Multimedia and social sciences, art, entertainment, culture, education, healthcare
•  Multi-modal integration, human‐machine interaction and human factors
• Multimedia communication, networking and mobility
• Multimedia vision, security, content protection and forensics
• Multimedia databases, digital libraries, and social media
• Multimedia applications, services, interfaces, devices, sensors and systems
• Content analysis, matching and retrieval
• Multimedia standards, trends and surveys
• Multimedia quality assessment, metrics and studies

The conference will have high quality limited track oral and poster presentations. Several awards sponsored by industry and institutions will be given out. Accepted papers must be presented in person (or virtually with prior approval) by one of the authors at the conference, or else they will not be included in the proceedings. Extensions or work related to the conference papers will be sought for special issues of selected journals. The proceedings will be published by Springer. In addition, authors of accepted papers may submit related work that does not overlap with the Springer publications to a special issue in ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications or Remote Sensing (Impact Factor 4.8).

Conference Website: www.smartmultimedia.org

Contact Email: webmaster@smartmultimedia.org