Workshop website: https://mintworkshop.github.io/2026/

The Workshop will be co-located with EMNLP 2026 in Budapest, Hungary, October 24–29, 2026 (exact date within this period to be decided).

We welcome work on topics including:

• computational models that integrate verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, text, gesture, facial expression, gaze, and body pose;

• cognitive and linguistic insights about face-to-face communication that can inform AI systems;

• multimodal datasets with synchronized speech, video, and motion data;

• evaluation methods for multimodal interaction;

• applications and tools for embodied conversational agents, social robots, annotation, and behavioural analysis.

Papers should be prepared using the official ACL formatting guidelines and ACL style files.

MINT welcomes both archival and non-archival papers:

• Archival papers: Submissions must be anonymous and report original, unpublished research to appear in the workshop proceedings. 

• Non-archival papers: Submissions reporting previously published work, preliminary research, or demos to be presented at the workshop and not published in the MINT proceedings.

Papers may be submitted as long papers (up to 8 pages plus references) or short papers (up to 4 pages plus references).

Non-archival submissions do not need to be anonymous.

We allow cross-submissions to other venues. However, to be included in the proceedings, authors of accepted papers must withdraw them from any other venue where they remain under consideration.

MINT will accept submissions through two channels:

1. Direct submission: The dedicated OpenReview portal for this is available at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT. Archival papers submitted through this channel will be reviewed by the MINT programme committee. 

2. ACL Rolling Review (ARR): Authors may submit through ARR and commit their paper together with the ARR reviews to MINT later at https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2026/Workshop/MINT_ARR_Commitment

Important dates (11:59 pm AOE)

• ARR paper submission deadline: May 25, 2026

• Direct paper submission deadline: July 8, 2026

• Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: August 24, 2026

• Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2026

• Camera-ready paper due: September 14, 2026

Accepted contributions will be required to be presented at the MINT workshop as posters or talks. 

The MINT workshop is sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: https://www.mpi.nl/

For questions, please contact: mint.organizers@gmail.com.

On behalf of the workshop organisers:

• Raquel Fernández (University of Amsterdam) 

• Diego Frassinelli (LMU Munich)

• Esam Ghaleb (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

• Bulat Khaertdinov (Maastricht University)

• Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University)

• Ece Takmaz  (Utrecht University) 

• Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University)

📚 ACDL 2026  is a full-immersion 5-day course in Riva del Sole Resort & SPA – Tuscany on cutting-edge advances in AI, Deep Learning, LLMs, Data Sc., Generative AI, AI Agents & Agentic AI  with lectures delivered by world-renowned experts. a

📍Riva del Sole Resort & SPA – Tuscany, June 8-12, 2026
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⏰ EARLY REGISTRATION: by April 23 (AoE) ⏳
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📝 LECTURERS:
Each Lecturer will hold up to four lectures on one or more research topics.
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It follows the (partial) list of the confirmed 👩‍🏫 ACDL 2026 Lecturers:

* Lucas Beyer, Meta, Zürich, Switzerland
3 Lectures on “Transformers & Vision Transformers”

* Sven Giesselbach, T Systems International & Fraunhofer Institute – IAIS, Germany
3 Lectures on “Agentic AI”

* Anirudh Goyal, Google DeepMind & Mila, Université de Montréal, Canada
3 Lectures on  “Metacognition as a Control Plane for Reasoning”

* Arthur Gretton, UCL & Google DeepMind, UK
2 Lectures on “Causal Effect Estimation with Context and Confounders”

* Mario Guarracino, University of Cassino and Souther Lazio, Italy
Lectures TBA

* Katja Hofmann, Microsoft, UK
3 Lectures on “World Models”

* Arnulf Jentzen, University of Münster, Germany
Lecture 1/3 “Mathematical Introduction to Stochastic Gradient Descent Optimization”
Lecture 2/3 “Error Analyses for Adam and further Accelerated and Adaptive Optimizers”
Lecture 3/3 “Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Partial Differential Equations”

* Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind, UK
Lectures TBA

* Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Lectures TBA

* Michal Valko, Stealth Startup, INRIA, MVA at ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Lecture 1/3 “Lightspeed RL Fine Tuning for LLMs”
Lecture 2/3 “Online and Offline RL Considerations for LLMs “
Lecture 3/3 “New Advances on the Theory of Language Generation and Hallucination”

* David van Dijk, Yale University, USA
3 Lectures TBA

* Jason Weston, META, USA
Lecture 1/3 “Self-Improving Language Models”
Lecture 2/3 “Self-Improving Agents”
Lecture 3/3 “The Future of Self-Improvement & the Promise of Co-Improving AI”

More Lecturers TBA

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Language: English.

To participate in the ACDL 2026, all attendants must

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Once accommodation has been booked at “Riva del Sole Resort & SPA“, the participant must send this information (including the Booking Number) to the ACDL organizing committee (acdl@icas.cc).

ACDL is a residential course, so all lecturers and participants must reside in the same Hotel (Riva del Sole Resort & SPA). No exceptions are made.
 
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Dear colleagues,

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22nd International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2026
 Toulouse, France, October 21-23, 2026

https://cbmi2026.sciencesconf.org/

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After 22 successful editions across Europe, the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (IEEE CBMI) conference will take place in Toulouse, France, in October 2026.

IEEE CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualisation and analytics. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and practical applications of IEEE CBMI. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics. In addition, special sessions on specific technical aspects or application domains are planned and calls will be issued in due course.

We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and practical applications of IEEE CBMI. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics. In addition, special sessions on specific technical aspects or application domains are planned and calls will be issued in due course.
 

Important Dates

Regular Papers & Special Session Papers 

• Paper deadline: 20 April 2026 (AoE) 

• Notification: 22 May 2026 (AoE)

• Camera-ready: 15 June 2026 (AoE)

Demonstration Submissions

• Submission Deadline:  27 April 2026 (AoE)

• Notification:  29 May 2026 (AoE)

• Camera-ready: 15 June 2026 (AoE)

Student Symposium

• Submission Deadline:  1 June 2026 (AoE)

• Notification: 10 June 2026 (AoE)

• Camera-ready: 15 June 2026 (AoE)

Call for Special Sessions (see dedicated email)
CBMI aims to host 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 2026.

Call for Regular Papers

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. 

The organisers of CBMI 2026 call for novel and original research papers that are addressing the various topics of interest related to the conference. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and applications of CBMI in the new era of Artificial Intelligence and foundation/language-backed-backed models for multimedia for multimedia. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics.

Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + up to 2 pages for references) or short papers (4 pages + up to 2 pages references).

Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a double blind process and the language of the conference is English. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Authors of high-quality papers accepted to the conference may be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue.

Call for Demonstrations

CBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics.  We invite authors to report on novel and compelling demonstrations in all topic areas of CBMI. Demonstration papers are subject to peer review according to criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.

The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages. An additional 1-2 pages should be appended to the paper that illustrate how the demo will be conducted on-site at CBMI 2025. This additional content will not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission be accepted. Including a link to a video showing the demo in action is highly encouraged. The submissions are peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.

Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers, etc.) themselves. The conference will provide a table, power outlet, screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. If you have special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in your demo submission.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest to the CBMI community include (but are not limited to) the following:

Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing:

·         Media content analysis and mining

·         AI/ML approaches for content understanding

·         Multimodal and cross-modal indexing

·         Activity recognition and event-based multimedia indexing and retrieval 

·         Multimedia information retrieval (image, audio, video, text)

·         Conversational search and question-answering systems

·         Multimedia recommendation

·         Multimodal analytics, summarization, visualization, organization and browsing of multimedia content

·         Multimedia verification (e.g., multimodal fact-checking, deep fake analysis)

·         Foundation models, large multimedia models, large language models and vision language models

·         Explainability in multimedia learning

·         Large scale multimedia database management

·         Evaluation and benchmarking of multimedia retrieval systems

Multimedia User Experiences:

·         Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) interfaces

·         Mobile interfaces and user interaction

·         Presentation and visualization tools

·         Affective adaptation and personalization

·         Relevance feedback and interactive learning

Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:

·         Multimedia and sustainability

·         Healthcare and medical applications

·         Cultural heritage and entertainment applications

·         Educational and social applications

·         Egocentric, wearable and personal multimedia

·         Applications to forensics, surveillance and security

·         Environmental and urban multimedia applications

·         Earth observation and astrophysics

·         Physical and industrial processes

Looking forward to reading you !