The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia IEEE ISM 2016 San Jose, California, USA December 11-­‐13, 2016 General Co-Chairs Mohan S. Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore Phillip C.-Y. Sheu, University of California, Irvine, USA Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA Program Co-Chairs Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa, Canada Tong Zhang, Intel, USA Workshop Co-Chairs Min Chen, University of Washington Bothell, USA Robert Mertens, SW University of Applied Sciences, Hamelin, Germany Yonghong Tian, Peking University, China Yamasaki Toshihiko, The university of Tokyo, Japan Industrial Program Co-Chairs Matthew Cooper, FX Palo Alto Lab, Inc., USA Alexander Loui, Eastman Kodak Company, USA Haohong Wang, TCL Research America, USA Best Paper Award Committee Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore Demo Co-Chairs Ramazan Savas Aygun, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA Song Gao, Google, USA Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA Yimin Yang, Florida International University, USA Panel Co-Chairs Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research, USA Publication Co-Chairs Yang Lei, HP Labs, USA Mira Kim, University of California, Irvine, USA The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia IEEE ISM 2016 San Jose, California, USA December 11-13, 2016 www.ieee-ism.org Research in multimedia computing is generally concerned with presentation, integration and computation of one or more media, such as text, image, graphics, audio, video, social data, and data collected from various sensors, etc., using computing techniques. The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2016) is the flagship conference of IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) and an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2016 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions. Submissions are solicited for full papers, workshop papers, demos and industrial papers. Topics for submission include but are not limited to: • • • • • • • Multimedia Systems and Architectures Multimedia Interfaces Media Coding, Processing, and Quality Measurement Multimedia Security and Forensics Content Understanding, Modeling, Management, and Retrieval Mobile media Applications Important Dates: May 8, 2016 Workshop Proposal Submission May 15, 2016 Workshop Notification July 15, 2016 Full/Industrial Paper Submission September 5, 2016 Full/Industrial Paper Notification September 9, 2016 Demo Paper Submission September 30, 2016 Demo Paper Notification October 7, 2016 Camera-Ready Paper Submission Paper Submission: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISM2016 Manuscripts must be written in English. Your papers MUST be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines. All papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). Submission instructions: Only electronic submission will be accepted. Technical paper authors MUST submit their manuscripts through CMT. Please follow the link CMT FOR ISM2016 (please register if not a CMT user). Manuscripts may only be submitted in PDF format. A copyright form needs to be submitted upon acceptance of the paper and is not required at this stage. Page Limits: The numbers of page limits, including all figures, tables, and references, are listed as follows. Only regular papers allow up to 2 extra pages. Full papers: 6 pages Short/Industrial papers: 4 pages Workshop papers: 6 pages Demo papers: 2 pages