ICMI 2026 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS
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5-9 October 2026, Napoli – Italy
https://icmi.acm.org/2026/
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The 28th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2026) will be held in Napoli, Italy. ICMI is the premier international forum for advancing research at the intersection of multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) and social interaction to create technically innovative, effective, and human-centered multimodal interactive systems. A unique aspect of ICMI is its multidisciplinary nature, bringing together research in AI, multimodal data processing, human-machine, and human-human interaction to bridge behavioral understanding with technology, with an eye towards impactful applications that benefit people and society.
Novelty will be evaluated along two dimensions: scientific novelty and technical novelty. Accepted papers at ICMI 2026 must demonstrate novelty in at least one of these two dimensions.

The theme of this year's conference is “Context and Cultural Awareness for Multimodal Interaction”, to explore how context and cultural factors influence multimodal interaction systems, including their design, implementation, and evaluation. We welcome papers that address the integration of contextual understanding, such as environmental, social, and emotional factors, into multimodal interaction systems. We also encourage contributions that explore cultural considerations in the development and deployment of interactive technologies.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Affective computing and interaction
* User-adaptive systems
* Cognitive modelling and multimodal interaction
* Context-aware modelling
* Cross-cultural design and evaluation
* Gesture, touch, and haptics
* Healthcare, assistive technologies
* Human communication dynamics
* Human-robot/agent multimodal interaction
* Human-centred AI and ethics
* Interaction with a smart environment
* Machine learning for multimodal interaction
* Mobile and wearable multimodal systems
* Multimodal behaviour generation
* Multimodal datasets and validation
* Multimodal dialogue modeling
* Multimodal fusion and representation
* Multimodal interactive applications
* Novel multimodal datasets
* Spoken/visual behaviours in social interaction
* System components and multimodal platforms
* Virtual/augmented reality and multimodal interaction

Commitment to ethical conduct is mandatory, and submissions must adhere to ethical standards, in particular when human-derived data are employed. Authors are encouraged to consult the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct (https://ethics.acm.org/).

*** Important Dates
Abstract deadline       April 13, 2026
Paper Submission        April 20, 2026
Rebuttal Period         June 1, 2026
Paper notification      July 6, 2026
Camera-ready paper      July 23, 2026
Presenting at the main conference       October 6-8, 2026

*** ACM Publication Policies
ACM's New Open Access Publishing Model. Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.
Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

* $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
* $350 for non-members

This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026, including ICMI.

*CVPR 2026 Workshop*

*submission deadline*: March 16, 2026
*less than a week remains* !!!

Workshop: https://image-matching-workshop.github.io
CMT website for paper submission:
https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IMW2026

*Overview*

The 8th edition of the Image Matching Workshop is co-located as every
year with CVPR 2026. Our goal is to encourage and highlight novel
strategies for image matching that deviate from and advance traditional
formulations, with a focus on large-scale, wide-baseline matching for 3D
reconstruction and pose estimation.

*Challenge*

The workshop will once again feature an open challenge hosted on Kaggle.
This year's challenge extends the previous year one with the purpose of
serving as a reference dataset with a larger life span. Teams with best
submissions will be invited to present their solutions at the workshop.

Challenge website:
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/image-matching-challenge-2025-ongoing

*Topics*

Workshop topics include (but are not limited to):
– Formulations of keypoint extraction and matching pipelines with deep
networks.
– Application of geometric constraints into the training of deep networks.
– Large-scale evaluation of classical and modern methods for image
matching, by means of our open challenge.
– Matching across different data modalities such as aerial versus ground.
– Leveraging additional cues such as semantics and mono-depth estimates.
– Attention mechanisms to match salient image regions.
– Connecting local descriptors/image matching with global
descriptors/image retrieval.
– Methods addressing adversarial conditions where current methods fail
(weather changes, day versus night, etc.).
– Integration of differentiable components into 3D reconstruction
frameworks.
– New perception devices such as event-based cameras.
– Other topics related to image matching, structure from motion,
mapping, and relocalization, such as privacy-preserving representations.

*Invited speakers*

– Paul-Edouard Sarlin, Google
– Nikhil Keetha, CMU / Meta

*Paper submission*

We invite paper submissions up to 8 pages, excluding references and
acknowledgements. They should use the CVPR template (reviews are
double-blind, so please hide author data in the pdf) and be submitted to
the CMT site (linked above). Submissions must contain novel work and
will be indexed in IEEE Xplore/CVF. They will receive at least two
double-blind reviews.

*Important dates*

– Paper submission deadline: March 16, 2026.
– Notification to authors: April 6, 2026.
– Camera-ready deadline: April 8, 2026 (hard deadline on April 11).
– Workshop date: TBC (June 3 or 4, 2026).

*Organizers*

– Fabio Bellavia, University of Palermo
– Jiri Matas, Czech Technical University in Prague
– Dmytro Mishkin, Czech Technical University in Prague/HOVER Inc.
– Luca Morelli, University of Trento/Bruno Kessler Foundation
– Fabio Remondino, Bruno Kessler Foundation
– Amy Tabb, USDA-ARS-AFRS
– Eduard Trulls, Google
– Kwang Moo Yi, University of British Columbia