CFP-IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2026)

March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your latest research to the 9th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2026), which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 9–11 August 2026.

With vast amounts of multimedia data now widely accessible, understanding spatial and temporal phenomena has become essential across many applications. This growing demand calls for advanced techniques in multimedia data processing, analysis, retrieval, mining, and management. IEEE MIPR 2026 provides a premier international forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to present original research findings and practical innovations in multimedia information processing and retrieval.

The conference will feature a comprehensive technical program, including the main technical track, keynote speeches, workshops, demonstrations, posters, tutorials, and panel discussions. It brings together university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers, and graduate students to exchange ideas, share insights, and foster collaborations.

We warmly welcome your participation and look forward to meeting you in Bangkok in August 2026.

Some important dates and our topics are listed below. For more details, please visit the conference website: https://mipr2026.org/

Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
IEEE MIPR 2026

1 Important Dates

==========================

  All deadlines below are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth


  – Submission deadline: April 12, 2026

  – Acceptance Notifications: May 31, 2026

  – Camera Read Deadline: June 17, 2026



2  Paper Submission

==========================


Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the topics in the CFP are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English, following the IEEE two-column template instructions. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), abstract, and institution information in the first page.

The online submission site is https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MIPR2026.

We invite submissions in three categories: regular paper (6 pages), demo paper (4 pages) and poster paper (2 pages). Each submission will undergo a thorough peer-review process.






3. Research Track Topics:

==========================


Generative and Foundation Models in Multimedia
• AI-generated Media
• Foundation Models in Vision and Audio
• Media Generation with Generative Models
• Media Generation with Large Vision/Language Models
• Visual and Vision-Language Pre-training
• Generic Vision Interface
• Alignments in Text-to-image Generation
• Large Multimodal Models
• Multimodal Agents

Trustworthy AI in Multimedia
• AI Reliability for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• AI Fairness for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• AI Robustness for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Attack and Defense for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Security of Large AI Models

Audio and Speech in Multimedia
• Speech/Voice Synthesis
• Analysis of Conversation
• Speaker and Language Identification
• Audio Signal Analysis
• Spoken Language Generation
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems

Content Understanding
• Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
• Visual Concept Detection
• Detection and Tracking
• 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
• Multimodal/Multisensory Interfaces, Integration, and Analysis
• Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
• Affective and Perceptual Multimedia

Multimedia Retrieval
• Multimedia Search and Recommendation
• Web-Scale Retrieval
• Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
• 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval
• Multimodal Media (Images, Videos, Audio, Texts, Graph/Relationship) Retrieval
• High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features

Machine/Deep Learning/Data Mining
• Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and Multimodal Fusion
• Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
• High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
• Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
• Novel Dataset for Learning and Multimedia

Multimedia Systems and Infrastructures
• Multimedia Systems and Middleware
• Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
• Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
• Internet Scale System Design
• Information Coding for Content Delivery
• Real-Time Data Processing for Internet of Multimedia Things

Data Management
• Multimedia Data Collection, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
• Multimedia and Content Forensics
• Data Integrity, Security, Protection, and Privacy
• Standards and Policies for Data Management
• Steganography for Secure Data Embedding
• Homomorphic Encryption for Secure Data Processing

Applications
• Multimedia Applications for Health and Sports
• Multimedia Applications for Culture and Education
• Multimedia Applications for Fashion and Living
• Multimedia Applications for Security and Safety
• Multimedia Applications for Agriculture
• Autonomous Systems (Self-driving Cars, Robots, Drones, etc.)
• Mobile and Wearable Multimedia


4. Bonus

==========================

Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be recommended for extension and publication in several international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (EURASIP JIVP), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, etc.

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CFP: IEEE JSTSP Special Issue on Autonomous and Evolutive Optimization in Networked AI

March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Call for Papers: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Special Issue on “Autonomous and Evolutive Optimization in Networked AI”

We invite submissions on online, self-evolving, and distributed optimization methods for networked AI systems, spanning adaptive signal processing, deep learning, reinforcement learning, multimodal learning, cognitive communications, end-cloud collaborative LLMs, multi-agent intelligence, model-drift compensation, and learning in non-stationary environments.

Submission deadline: June 15, 2026
CFP: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/events/ieee-jstsp-special-issue-autonomous-and-evolutive-optimization-networked-ai
Guidelines: https://signalprocessingsociety.org/publications-resources/ieee-journal-selected-topics-signal-processing
Submission site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sps-ieee

Guest editors: Liang Song, Jiangchuan Liu, Amit Dvir, Athanassios Skodras, Victor C.M. Leung, and Qi Bi
Administrative contact: Sasha Lee (sasha.lee.insai@gmail.com)

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ANNPR 2026 – Call for Papers and Special Sessions

March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
We are pleased to announce ANNPR

2026 – the 12th IAPR TC3 Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition, which will take place October 7–9, 2026, at the University of Milan (Italy). The workshop will be held in person.

Proceedings will be published in the Springer LNAI (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) series.

Website: https://annpr2026.unimi.it

Keynote Speakers

Sander Dieleman, DeepMind, London (UK)

Elisa Ricci, University of Trento, Trento (Italy)

Pietro Lió, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK)

 Elena Casiraghi, University of Milan, Milan (Italy)

________________________________________________________________

Call for Special Sessions

We welcome proposals for Special Sessions (Research Track) on emerging and timely topics aligned with the workshop themes.

  • Proposal deadline: April 1, 2026

  • Proposals should include title, description, chairs, rationale, and potential contributors

  • Send proposals to: annpr26@gmail.com

Call for Papers

ANNPR 2026 invites original contributions on artificial neural networks and machine learning for pattern recognition, including both methodological advances and applications.

________________________________________________________________

Important Dates

  • Special Session Proposals: April 1, 2026

  • Paper Submission: May 14, 2026
  • Notification: June 29, 2026
  • Camera-ready Papers: July 13, 2026

  • Workshop: October 7–9, 2026

We would appreciate it if you could share this announcement with interested colleagues and students.

Best regards,

Giovanna Maria Dimitri (University of Milan)
Sinem Aslan (University of Milan)
Edmondo Trentin (University of Siena)
Mirco Ravanelli (Concordia University)
Cem Subakan (Laval University)
Stefano Montanelli (University of Milan)

ANNPR 2026 Organizing Committee
annpr2026@gmail.com

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nternational Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026): Last Call for Research Papers

March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
*** Last Call for Research Papers ***

International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)

29 September – 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus

(*** Submission Deadline extended to 10 April 2026, AoE ***)
The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and
Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and
practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines
focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability.
VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and
results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software
configuration, and customization.

As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable,
managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging
—than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that
address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives.

VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software
and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and
Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International
Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful
editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22
successful editions).

VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability-
intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc.
For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor
conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the
research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product
lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product
configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper
and the best artifact paper.
Topics of Interest

We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all
phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

Requirements & Domain Engineering
• Domain analysis and variability modeling
• Decision modeling and support
• Customization and personalization specification
• Requirements variability and traceability

Architecture & Design
• Variability-aware software architectures
• Architecture-centric product line engineering
• Model-driven engineering (MDE)
• Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software
ecosystems

Implementation & Code Generation
• Generative programming and code synthesis
• Modularization techniques for reusable code
• Programming languages and frameworks for variability
• Open-source strategies for software reuse

Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance
• Testing and analysis of configurable systems
• Safety and security in variable systems
• Formal Methods for Software Product Lines
• Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration
• Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance

Evolution, Maintenance & Operation
• Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems
• Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring
• Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines
• Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems
• Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines

AI and Data-Driven Methods
• Machine learning for variability management
• AI-assisted product configuration
• Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories
• Recommendation systems for reuse and customization
Publication of Proceedings

Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the
LNCS series.
Submission Guidelines

Paper Types
We invite the following types of submissions:

• Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present
original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal
analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the
problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results.

• Short Papers (6 – 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage
research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or
validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision,
motivation, and potential impact.

Formatting
Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to:

Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details:

Submission Link
Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track:
Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing
All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double-
anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based
on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions
to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second
deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision.

Revisions
Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle,
papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that
the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is
not yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a
community member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers
should be submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how
the reviewer comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members.
Papers rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to
contain an appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after
references, regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format.
Best Paper Awards

Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000.
Journal Special Issue

Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30%
additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software
Engineering journal (currently under negotiation).
Important Dates (AoE)

• Paper Submission Deadline: 10 April 2026 (extended)
• Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2026
• Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025
• Author Registration: 15 July 2025
Organisation

General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium

Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany

Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany

Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel

Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco

Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France

Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany

Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK

Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan

Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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CFP-IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2026)

March 31st, 2026 Daniela Lopez de Luise
Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your latest research to the 9th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE MIPR 2026), which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from 9–11 August 2026.

With vast amounts of multimedia data now widely accessible, understanding spatial and temporal phenomena has become essential across many applications. This growing demand calls for advanced techniques in multimedia data processing, analysis, retrieval, mining, and management. IEEE MIPR 2026 provides a premier international forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to present original research findings and practical innovations in multimedia information processing and retrieval.

The conference will feature a comprehensive technical program, including the main technical track, keynote speeches, workshops, demonstrations, posters, tutorials, and panel discussions. It brings together university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers, and graduate students to exchange ideas, share insights, and foster collaborations.

We warmly welcome your participation and look forward to meeting you in Bangkok in August 2026.

Some important dates and our topics are listed below. For more details, please visit the conference website: https://mipr2026.org/

Sincerely,
Organizing Committee
IEEE MIPR 2026

1 Important Dates

==========================

  All deadlines below are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth

  – Submission deadline (First Round): April 12, 2026

  – Acceptance Notifications: May 31, 2026

  – Camera Read Deadline: June 17, 2026

2  Paper Submission

==========================
Papers reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the topics in the CFP are solicited. Full paper manuscripts must be in English, following the IEEE two-column template instructions. Submissions should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), e-mail address(es), abstract, and institution information in the first page.

The online submission site is https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/MIPR2026.

We invite submissions in three categories: regular paper (6 pages), demo paper (4 pages) and poster paper (2 pages). Each submission will undergo a thorough peer-review process.


3. Research Track Topics:

==========================
Generative and Foundation Models in Multimedia
• AI-generated Media
• Foundation Models in Vision and Audio
• Media Generation with Generative Models
• Media Generation with Large Vision/Language Models
• Visual and Vision-Language Pre-training
• Generic Vision Interface
• Alignments in Text-to-image Generation
• Large Multimodal Models
• Multimodal Agents

Trustworthy AI in Multimedia
• AI Reliability for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• AI Fairness for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• AI Robustness for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Attack and Defense for Multimedia Applications and Systems
• Security of Large AI Models

Audio and Speech in Multimedia
• Speech/Voice Synthesis
• Analysis of Conversation
• Speaker and Language Identification
• Audio Signal Analysis
• Spoken Language Generation
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems

Content Understanding
• Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
• Visual Concept Detection
• Detection and Tracking
• 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
• Multimodal/Multisensory Interfaces, Integration, and Analysis
• Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
• Affective and Perceptual Multimedia

Multimedia Retrieval
• Multimedia Search and Recommendation
• Web-Scale Retrieval
• Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
• 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval
• Multimodal Media (Images, Videos, Audio, Texts, Graph/Relationship) Retrieval
• High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features

Machine/Deep Learning/Data Mining
• Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and Multimodal Fusion
• Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
• High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
• Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
• Novel Dataset for Learning and Multimedia

Multimedia Systems and Infrastructures
• Multimedia Systems and Middleware
• Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
• Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
• Internet Scale System Design
• Information Coding for Content Delivery
• Real-Time Data Processing for Internet of Multimedia Things

Data Management
• Multimedia Data Collection, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
• Multimedia and Content Forensics
• Data Integrity, Security, Protection, and Privacy
• Standards and Policies for Data Management
• Steganography for Secure Data Embedding
• Homomorphic Encryption for Secure Data Processing

Applications
• Multimedia Applications for Health and Sports
• Multimedia Applications for Culture and Education
• Multimedia Applications for Fashion and Living
• Multimedia Applications for Security and Safety
• Multimedia Applications for Agriculture
• Autonomous Systems (Self-driving Cars, Robots, Drones, etc.)
• Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

4. Bonus

==========================

Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be recommended for extension and publication in several international journals, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), IEEE MultiMedia Magazine, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (EURASIP JIVP), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, etc.

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