Topics of Interest

MMM 2027 welcomes submissions covering a wide range of research themes in multimedia. The following topics are illustrative rather than exhaustive.

1. Multimedia Content Analysis

• Multimedia indexing, mining and retrieval
• Multimedia abstraction and summarisation
• Annotation, tagging and recommendation
• Multimodal analysis and semantic understanding
• Context‑aware multimedia analysis
• Interactive learning and knowledge construction
• Multimedia verification and fusion
• Multimedia content generation

2. Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications

• Media representation and algorithms
• Multimedia sensors and interaction modes
• Privacy, security and content protection
• Multimedia standards
• Databases, query processing and scalability
• Content delivery, streaming and networking
• Wireless and mobile multimedia
• Sensor networks and distributed systems
• Audio, image and video processing and compression
• Multi‑camera and multi‑view systems

3. Multimedia Applications, Interfaces and Services

• Retrieval, browsing and recommendation systems
• Extended reality (AR/VR/MR) and virtual environments
• Real‑time and interactive applications
• Multimedia analytics
• Egocentric and wearable multimedia
• Urban and satellite multimedia
• Mobile multimedia systems
• Multimodal question answering and conversational AI
• Authoring and personalisation

4. Domain Applications

• Cultural, educational and social multimedia
• Multimedia for e‑health and medical applications

5. Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects

• Fairness, accountability and transparency
• Environmental impact of multimedia systems
• Reproducibility, interpretability and robustness
• Responsible multimedia modelling
• Legal and ethical aspects of generative AI
• Multimedia research valorisation
• Digital transformation

6. Emerging Topics

• Large multimedia models and large language models (LLMs)
• Multimodal pre‑training and representation learning
• Embodied multimodal systems