Important Dates
| Workshop Proposal Due: | 31 December 2025 Closed |
| Notification of Acceptance: | 11 January 2026 |
Call for Workshop Proposals
ACM ICMR 2026 is calling for high quality Workshops addressing innovative research in multimedia retrieval and its directly related fields. The scope of the conference is not only search and retrieval of multimedia data but also addresses analysis and understanding of multimedia contents, including:
- Integration of diverse multimodal data
- Deep learning-based methodology and practical multimedia applications
- Multimedia dataset creation and management (and compliance with ethical practices)
- Interpretability of multimedia analysis and retrieval techniques and connection with social sciences
- Exploring bias in multimedia datasets
- Practical systems/applications of multimedia analysis and retrieval on different areas, e.g. media & entertainment, culture, health, and security
- Multimedia analysis and retrieval aiming to solve major societal challenges, e.g. disinformation, climate change, and social inequalities
- Legal/ethical challenges and societal impact of multimedia analysis and retrieval
- Community-contributed social data
- Lifelogging data and automatically generated sensor data
- Generative AI for multimedia content creation and retrieval
Workshop Paper Types
The Workshops will contain both:
- Long research papers which 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 which should present preliminary results or more focused contributions. They will be presented as posters at the conference.
We cordially invite you to submit your workshop proposals to ICMR 2026!
Proposal Format
Each workshop proposal (typically 4 pages, in PDF format) must include:
- Title of the workshop
- Workshop organisers (name, affiliation and short biography)
- Scope and topics of the workshop
- Rationale:
- Why the workshop is related to ACM ICMR 2026
- Why the topic is important for our community
- Why the workshop may attract a significant number of attendees
- A brief biography for each organizer and panellist
- Workshop details:
- A draft call for papers (including organisers, program committee, and steering committee if any). Organisers are expected to be fully committed to organising a successful workshop and be physically present at the workshop.
- Workshop tentative schedule (number of expected papers, number of expected attendees, duration quarter/full/half day, format talks/posters, etc.). We encourage events that demonstrate the interest of the community in the proposed topic and guarantee the commitment of the organizers.
- Names of potential participants and invited speakers (if any)
- Workshop history over recent years (if any), including the number of participants
- Any special or additional requirements for the workshop, aside from the provision of a room with AV equipment and refreshment breaks
Submission Guidelines
Proposal Submission
Please submit your workshop proposal as a PDF file to the Workshops Chairs at .
Workshop Paper Format
Papers submitted to accepted workshops 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).
Workshop Paper Submission
ICMR 2026 uses EasyChair for workshop paper submissions. The submission link will be provided to accepted workshop organizers.
Contact
For any question regarding submission of workshop proposals, please visit the conference website (https://icmr2026.org/) or email the Workshops Chairs at .
Workshops Chairs for ACM ICMR 2026
- Bin Zhu, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Zijian Wang, The University of Queensland, Australia