ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Special Issue on Text-Multimedia Retrieval: Retrieving Multimedia Data by Means of Natural Language

Guest Editors:

• Alex Falcon, University of Udine, Italy

• Giuseppe Serra, University of Udine, Italy

• Sergio Escalera, University of Barcelona and Computer Vision Center, Spain

• Michael Wray, University of Bristol, UK

The explosion of user-generated multimedia content on the Web has created an urgent need for efficient and accurate retrieval techniques capable of identifying the content relevant to the users’ interests. This Special Issue on Text-Multimedia Retrieval aims to curate groundbreaking contributions related to retrieving multimedia content (images, videos, audios, etc) through textual queries. We invite innovative submissions exploring diverse facets of this domain, including new methodologies for modeling multimedia content and addressing the semantic gap between different formats, benchmarks designed for specific problems, and many other related topics detailed in the Call for Papers.

Important Dates:

• Submissions deadline: June 30, 2024

• First-round review decisions: October 30, 2024

• Deadline for revision submissions: November 30, 2024

• Notification of final decisions: January 15, 2025

• Tentative publication: February 2025

Click here for the full Call for Papers and submission instructions.