CBMI (eighteenth edition) aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to, the following: audio and visual and multimedia indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis, …

The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France, following the successful previous editions of Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, Bordeaux 2007, London 2008, Chania 2009, Grenoble 2010, Madrid 2011, Annecy 2012, Veszprem 2013, Klagenfurt 2014, Prague 2015, Bucharest 2016, Firenze 2017, La Rochelle 2018, and Dublin 2019.

CBMI aims to host two special sessions during the conference. Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on topic within the content-based multimedia indexing field which is not directly covered by the list of topics for the conference, but which are beneficial to the community.

Special session should include four to five papers, which can be invited, or regular submissions. Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of CBMI 2020. In order to ensure the high quality of all conference papers, all papers submitted to special sessions at CBMI 2020 will be peer-reviewed through a standard review process, including invited papers. If a special session has many high-quality submissions, some of the submissions may potentially be moved to regular sessions. The organizers of each special session must provide 1-2 reviews per submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will provide 1-2 reviews. Final decision on acceptance/rejection will be made in collaboration between the special session chair (Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) and CBMI 2020 TPC chairs (Klaus Schoeffman – Klagenfurt University – Austria and Cathal Gurrin – Dublin City – University, Ireland).

Deadline for special session proposals: 08 February 2020
Contacts : cbmi2020-organisation@univ-lille.fr
Special session chair : Marcel Worring (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)