Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Audio and visual and multimedia indexing

• Multimodal and cross-modal indexing

• Deep learning for multimedia indexing

• Visual content extraction

• Audio (speech, music, etc) content extraction

• Identification and tracking of semantic regions and events

• Social media analysis

• Metadata generation, coding and transformation

• Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)

• Mobile media retrieval

• Event-based media processing and retrieval

• Affective/emotional interaction or interfaces for multimedia retrieval

• Multimedia data mining and analytics

• Multimedia recommendation

• Large scale multimedia database management

• Summarization, browsing and organization of multimedia content

• Personalization and content adaptation

• User interaction and relevance feedback

• Multimedia interfaces, presentation and visualization tools

• Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

• Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, lifelogs, satellite imagery, video surveillance