The IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (IEEE VCIP) Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Malta Section and by the University of Malta, will be held in Valletta, the capital city of the Historical Malta, during 7-10 December 2014. Since 1986, VCIP has served as a premier forum in SPIE for the exchange of fundamental research results and technological advances in the field of visual communications and image processing. The 2014 edition will be the fourth time that VCIP will be held under the auspices of the IEEE. IEEE VCIP 2014 shall inherit the tradition of previous conferences in providing fertile ground for leading engineers and scientists from around the world to escalate collaboratively the research frontiers within these and related areas. Original and unpublished work relevant to, but are not limited to, the following topics are hereby solicited: Emerging Techniques for Next Generation Video/Image Coding Advanced Techniques for 3D Videos Visual Communications Systems and Techniques for Human Interaction Embedded Systems and Architecture Implementations Cloud Multimedia Systems, Applications and Services