AREA 1: MULTIMEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

• Digital Audio and Video Broadcasting

• Interactive Multimedia: Games and Digital Television

• Mobile Multimedia

• Multimedia Devices

• Multimedia Security and Cryptography

• Performance Measurement and Evaluation, QoS

AREA 2: NEW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTIMEDIA

• Indexing of Large-Scale Multimedia Signals

• Multimedia and Big Data

• Multimedia and Cloud Computing

• Multimedia Applications in Cloud Computing

• Multimedia in Economics, Finance, Business Analytics

• Multimedia Security and Privacy in Cloud computing and Social Networking

• Multimedia Security, Forensic, Privacy for Big Data

• Privacy‐preserving Multimedia Fusion and Analytics

• Secure Multimedia Transmission

• Secure Multi-party Computation for Big Multimedia

AREA 3: MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING

• Biometrics and Pattern Recognition

• Education in Signal Processing

• Image and Video Processing, Compression and Segmentation

• Multidimensional Signal Processing

• Multimodal Signal Processing

• Neural Networks, Spiking Systems, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic

• Perceptual/Human Audiovisual System Modeling

• Sensors and Multimedia

AREA 4: MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

• 3D Virtual Environments and Surveillance Applications

• Audio and Video Quality Assessment

• Authentication and Watermarking

• Biomedical Applications

• Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems

• Human-Machine Interface

• Multimedia Databases, Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval

• Semantic Analysis of Multimedia Data