Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC)https://www.computer.org/web/tcmc/index

Welcome to the July 2018 edition of the IEEE-TCMC monthly newsletter

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This month's topics include:Call for Papers:

IEEE AIVR 2018 IEEE MultiMedia IEEE MIPR 2019 IEEE ISM 2018

Call for Papers

The First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2018)

Taichung, Taiwan, December 10-12, 2018

http://aivr.asia.edu.tw/2018/

The First IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR 2018) is a unique event, addressing researchers and industries from all areas of AI as well as Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality. We invite researchers from Virtual, as well as Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) to participate and submit their work to the program. Likewise, any work on AI that has a relation to any of these fields or potential for the usage in any of them is welcome.

Submission GuidelinesAuthors are invited to submit an 8-page (regular), 4-page (short), or 2-page (demo and video) technical paper manuscript in double-column IEEE format to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeaivr2018

Important Dates: Paper submission: August 17, 2018 (extended) Short paper submission: September 2, 2018

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR)

San Jose, CA, USA, March 28-30, 2019

http://www.ieee-mipr.org/

The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval for single modality or multiple modalities. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry practitioners, software engineers, and graduate students who need to become acquainted with technologies for big data analytics, machine intelligence, information fusion in multimedia information processing and retrieval. The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4 pages), and demo papers (2 pages). In addition, a special track encourages “wild and crazy ideas” (4 pages). Selected submissions will be invited to submit to journal special issues.Important Dates: Workshop Proposals: September 15th, 2018 Regular/Short Papers: October 1st, 2018 Demo Papers: November 30th, 2018

IEEE MultiMediahttps://

publications.computer.org/multimedia-magazine/

IEEE MultiMedia magazine seeks original articles discussing research and advanced practices in hardware and software, spanning the range from theory to working systems. We encourage our authors to write in a conversational style, presenting even technical material clearly and simply. Articles submitted to IEEE MultiMedia should not exceed 6,500 words, including all text, the abstract, keywords, bibliography, and biographies. Each table and figure counts for 200 words. Please limit the number of references to the 12 most relevant. For more information and instructions on presentation and formatting, please see our author guidelines (https://www.computer.org/web/peer-review/magazines). Please submit through ScholarOne Manuscripts (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mm-cs).

Editor-in-ChiefShu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USAchens@cs.fiu.edu

IEEE ISM 2018 The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia

http://ism.asia.edu.tw/2018/

The 20th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2018) is 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 the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2018 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers, short papers, industry papers, workshop papers, technical demos, and panels.

Important Dates: Workshop proposal: July 20th, 2018 Paper submission: August 10th, 2018

(extended) Acceptance notification: September 28th,

2018 Camera ready and registration: October 31st,

2018

We welcome all our members to contribute information/announcements to the TCMC Newsletter.ChairDr. Mei-Ling Shyu University of Miami

Secretary and Newsletter EditorDr. Min Chen University of Washington Bothell