Important Dates
| Paper Submission Deadline: | 6 February 2026 |
| Conference Dates: | June 16-19, 2026 |
Call for Regular Papers
ACM ICMR 2026 is calling for high quality original papers addressing innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its directly related fields. The main scope of the conference is search and retrieval of multimedia and multimodal data. This includes analysis and understanding of different multimedia content types, such as community-contributed social data, lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data, integration of diverse multimodal data, deep learning-based methodology and practical multimedia applications. Long research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference. They will have both oral and poster presentations at the conference. Short research papers should present preliminary results or more focused contributions. They will be presented as posters at the conference.
Research papers should present complete work with evaluations on topics related to the Conference. They will have both oral and poster presentations at the conference.
Topics of Interest
- Multimedia content-based search and retrieval systems
- Multimedia content-based (or hybrid) recommender systems
- Large-scale and Web-scale multimedia retrieval
- Multimedia content extraction, analysis, and indexing
- Multimedia analytics and knowledge discovery
- Multimedia machine learning, deep learning, and neural networks to facilitate search and retrieval
- Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning
- Fine-grained retrieval for multimedia
- Event-based indexing and multimedia understanding
- Semantic descriptors and novel high- or mid-level features
- Crowdsourcing, community contributions, and social multimedia
- Multimedia retrieval leveraging quality, production cues, style, framing, and affect
- Synthetic media generation and detection
- Narrative generation and narrative analysis
- User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval
- Query processing, e.g. query representation, suggestion and reformulation
- Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization
- Multimedia beyond video, including multimodal uses of 3D data and sensor data
- Mobile multimedia browsing and search
- Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., using GPU, FPGA
- Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search
- Privacy-aware multimedia retrieval methods and systems
- Fairness and explainability in multimedia analysis/search
- Legal, ethical and societal impact of multimedia retrieval research
- Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., news/journalism, media, medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, and environment
Maximum Length of a Paper
Long research paper: Each long research paper should not be longer than 8 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.
Short research paper: Each short research paper should not be longer than 4 pages, plus additional pages for the list of references.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 6 February 2026
Review Style
AACM ICMR follows a double-blind review process for full paper selection. Authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the name(s) of the author(s). Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors:
- Do not put your names under the title
- Avoid using phrases such as "our previous work" when referring to earlier publications by the authors
- Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs)
- Check supplemental material for information that may identify the authors' identity
- Avoid providing links to Websites that identify the authors
Author's Instructions
All submissions must follow ACM format and be submitted via the conference management system. Papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library.
For detailed formatting guidelines and templates, visit the ACM proceedings format page.