IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM) 2025: Call for Papers

The 27th International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2025) will be held from December 8-10, 2025, at the Roral Continental Hotel in Naples, Italy. The conference will be a hybrid event, co-located with RoboticCC 2025 and AIxRobotics 2025.

ISM 2025 provides an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing.

Submission Topics

Submissions are solicited for full papers, short papers, position papers, and workshop papers. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Systems and Architectures

• Mobile multimedia systems and services
• Pervasive and interactive media systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
• Multimedia data in the Cloud
• GPU-based multimedia architectures and systems
• Software development framework using multimedia techniques

Communications and Streaming

• Multimedia networking and QoS
• Mobile audio/video streaming
• Wireless broadcasting and streaming
• Scalable streaming
• Peer-to-peer media systems and streaming
• Sensor networks
• Internet telephony technologies and systems
• Video teleconferencing

Multimedia Interfaces

• Information visualization and interactive systems
• Multimodal user interfaces: design, engineering, modality-abstractions, etc.
• Tools for media authoring, analyzing, editing, browsing, and navigation
• Intelligent agents for content creation, distribution, and analysis
• Novel interfaces for multimedia: touch, tangible, wearable, virtual, 3D, etc.
• User interfaces for mobile devices

Media Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement

• Signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
• Coding standards
• Scalable and Multi-view coding
• Multi-resolution or super-resolution algorithms
• Maintenance of perceptual quality with further compression
• Developing novel quality measures

Multimedia Security and Forensics

• Data security including digital watermarks and encryption
• Copyright issues for multimedia data
• Surveillance and monitoring methods
• Face detection and recognition algorithms
• Human behavior analysis from motion images/videos
• Multimedia-based computer forensics (e.g., crime scene investigation, user profiling)
• Multimedia Captchas, including attacks and counter-attacks
• On forensic use of biometrics
• Data hiding, stenography, and steganalysis
• Trust and privacy issues in media systems

Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval

• Media meta-modeling techniques
• Storage systems, databases, and retrieval
• Data segmentation
• Image, audio, video, genre clustering & classification
• Video summarization and story generation
• Speaker identification, recognition, and location
• Object, event, emotion, text detection and recognition
• Mosaic, video panorama and background generation
• Media semantics, ontologies, annotation, concept detection and learning
• Personalization and user preferences
• 3D and depth information
• Viewer perception, emotion analysis and visual attention
• Multimedia datasets and open source code for research
• Multimedia recommender systems
• Fake multimedia detection

Mobile Media

• Mobile and location-based media techniques
• Mobile visual search
• Social networks for mobile users
• Augmented reality for mobile users
• Content delivery in mobile networks (e.g., 3G, 4G and future 5G)
• Mobile applications

Applications

• Big data
• 3D data: graphics, displays, sound, broadcasting, interfaces
• Media composition and production: capture, authoring, digital art, animations, etc.
• Gaming
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Robotics
• Media interfaces for the Web
• Media in social network analysis
• Rich media enabled E-commerce and E-shopping
• Media systems for handicapped
• Collaborative systems
• Interdisciplinary media applications: Bioinformatics, Transportation systems, Wild-life monitoring and analysis, etc.
• Deep learning of multimedia data

Submission Instructions

• Manuscript Preparation: Authors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), and 2-page (poster and demo) manuscript in double-column IEEE format.
• Formatting: Manuscripts must be written in English and follow the instructions in the Manuscript Formatting and Templates page.
• Submission Method: Only electronic submission will be accepted. Technical paper authors MUST submit their manuscripts through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=ism2025. Manuscripts may only be submitted in PDF format.
• Review Process: All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Reviews will be returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of the accepted papers.
• Presentation Guarantee: Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference.
• Originality: Please only submit original material where copyright of all parts is owned by the authors declared and which is not currently under review elsewhere.
• IEEE Policies: Please see the IEEE policies for further information.

Camera-Ready Submission Instructions

• Your final papers MUST be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines.
• Please proofread and check the layout of your paper BEFORE submitting.
• Link for camera-ready submission: (TBA)
• Only PDF format will be accepted.

Important Notes

• Every paper accepted for publication in the Proceedings MUST be presented during the conference.
• Every paper accepted MUST have attached to it at least one registration at the full member/nonmember rate. If all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate.
• Failure to comply will result in the removal of your paper from the conference proceedings.
• Page Limits & Extra Pages:
  • Regular and Workshop papers: up to 8 pages (allow up to 2 extra pages with $150 per extra page).
  • Short papers: up to 4 pages (allow up to 1 extra page with $150 per extra page).
  • Poster and Demo papers: up to 2 pages.

Important Dates

• Workshop Proposal: August 1, 2025 PT
• Paper Submission: September 1, 2025 PT
• Workshop Proposal Acceptance: September 1, 2025 PT
• Notification of Paper Acceptance: October 1, 2025 PT
• Workshop Paper Submission: October 15, 2025 PT
• Camera Ready and Registration: November 1, 2025 PT