Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. MULTIMEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

2. MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING

3. MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS

4. NEW RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENTS IN MULTIMEDIA

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: 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 3: 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

AREA 4: 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