Important Dates
| Tutorial Proposal Submission: | 20 February 2026 |
| Notification of Acceptance: | 6 March 2026 |
| Tutorial Abstract Deadline: | 25 April 2026 |
Call for Tutorial Proposals
ACM ICMR 2026 encourages proposals of tutorials by qualified researchers on trendy and innovative topics of multimedia search and retrieval research. Tutorials are expected to have an educational slant rather than being a cursory survey of techniques, suited for graduate students and junior researchers interested in multimedia retrieval.
Both half-day and full-day offerings are welcome. Hands-on tutorials are highly encouraged.
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
Submission Guidelines
Proposal Submission
Proposals should be submitted by email to the Tutorials Chairs at , either in plain-text or PDF format and should include the following information:
- Tutorial title
- Tutorial duration: half- or full-day
- Tutorial description: topics that will be covered, along with a brief outline and significant details
- Proposer(s) information: name, title, affiliation, primary contact email, short bio, relevant publications with reference to the Tutorial topics
- Materials to be distributed to attendees (if any)
- Prerequisites (if any)
Tutorial Overview Abstract
For each accepted tutorial, a 2 pages tutorial overview abstract should be provided. The abstract is going to be included in the ACM ICMR proceedings.
Paper Format
The tutorial overview abstract 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).
Abstract Submission
ICMR 2026 uses EasyChair. Tutorial overview abstracts must be submitted via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmicmr2026
Contact
For any questions regarding tutorial submissions, please email the Tutorials Chairs at .
Tutorial Chairs
- Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Yadan Luo, The University of Queensland, Australia