The eighteenth edition of CBMI will be organized by the CRIStAL laboratory at University of Lille, Lille, France from 28 to 30 June 2021 as a fully virtual event.

Topics of interest for 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 analysis, audio (speech, music, etc.) content analysis and mining, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis.

The CBMI2021 programme this year consists of:
   • 3 keynote talks from leading academics and practitioners
   • 30 full papers (across seven sessions, including three special sessions)
   • 13 posters and demos

Full details of the conference programme can be found on the CBMI website
https://cbmi2021.univ-lille.fr/program-1#programoverview

Registration for participants is free of charge.
Registration deadline : June 15th
https://inscription-evenement.univ-lille.fr/CBMI2021/

Keynotes
   • Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy — Using Memory and Attention for Compatible-garments Outfit  Recommendation
   • Mohan Kankanhalli, School of Computing, National University of Singapore — Privacy-aware Analytics for Human Attributes from Images
   • Cécile Favre, University of Lyon, France –  Diversity and Women in Multimedia

Special sessions
   • Bio-inspired circuits, systems and algorithms for multimedia (BICSAM)
   • Content-based learning in astrophysics (CoBLA)
   • Mining and indexing multimedia data for remote sensing of the environment and our changing planet (Remote Sensing)