Important Dates
| Demo/Challenge Paper Submission Deadline: | 20 February 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | 15 April 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Submission: | 25 April 2026 |
Call for Demonstrations and Challenges
ACM ICMR 2026 is accepting proposals for technical demonstrators that will be showcased during the conference. The demo session will include demonstrations of latest innovations by research and engineering groups in industry, academia, and government. ACM ICMR 2026 is seeking original high-quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field of multimedia retrieval.
We solicit high quality contributions of demonstrators with innovative interfaces and visualizations showcasing new opportunities, functionalities, or the use of multimedia retrieval in new application domains.
ACM ICMR is also accepting proposals for scientific challenges in multimedia retrieval. Such challenges should outline the task to be solved and the data to be used in the challenges, plus evaluation measures to be used for the ranking. The challenge description will be published in the proceedings and space will be made available for the challenges at the meeting.
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
Logistics at the Venue
Presenters of the technical demonstrators will be provided with a table, computer display, power outlet and wireless (shared) Internet to present their demos. Demo presenters are expected to bring with themselves everything else needed for their demo, such as hardware, laptops, sensors, PCs, etc.
If you have special requests such as other hardware accessories, a poster board, special requests for the allotted space, special lighting conditions and so on, we will do our best to arrange them.
Submission Guidelines
Paper Format
All papers must be formatted according to the ACM proceedings style. Click here to access LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates for this format. If you use LaTeX, please use sample-sigconf.tex as the template (or see the Overleaf template here).
Maximum Length of a Paper
Each technical demo or challenge description paper should not be longer than 4 pages (plus additional pages for the list of references).
Single-Blind Review
ACM ICMR will use a single-blind review process for the technical demonstrations and challenges paper selection. Authors should provide author names and affiliations in their manuscript. Links to working prototypes and videos showcasing the capabilities of the systems are encouraged with the submission for demo papers.
All demo and challenge submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure maximum quality and accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. The best demo and the best challenge will be awarded and announced.
Submission
ICMR 2026 uses EasyChair. Papers must be submitted via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmicmr2026
Accepted papers will be published in the ICMR proceedings and need to be showcased during the demo or challenge sessions at the conference.
Contact
For any questions regarding submissions, please email the Demonstrations and Challenges Chairs at .
Demonstrations and Challenges Chairs
- Klaus Schöffmann, Klagenfurt University, Austria
- Luca Rossetto, Dublin City University, Ireland