ICMR 2017

Call for open source software papers

ICMR 2017 is calling for papers presenting significant and innovative open source contributions of researchers and software developers to advance the field of multimedia retrieval by providing the community with implementations of middleware, frameworks, toolkits, libraries, players, authoring tools, and other multimedia software. We strongly believe that making available open source resources significantly advances the field by providing a common set of tools for (i) building upon previous work, (ii) improving multimedia research prototypes and (iii) allowing others to replicate research results more easily.

The Open Source Software Session is a novel part of the ACM ICMR program. To qualify, the software must be provided in a from compliant following the open source definition of the Open Source Initiative:

Open source software is software that can be freely accessed, used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone (cp. https://opensource.org/osd).

Open source software is typically available under an open source license, like Apache License 2.0, GPL, LGPL, MIT, etc. In addition submissions must match the topics of ACM ICMR 2017. The scope of the conference includes core topics in multimedia retrieval and recommendation, as well as the broader set of topics that must be addressed to ensure that multimedia retrieval technologies are of practical use in real-world use cases. Special emphasis is placed on topics related to large-scale indexing, user interaction, exploiting diverse and multimodal data, and domain-specific challenges.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Multimedia content-based search and retrieval
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 nets
Relevance feedback, active learning, and transfer learning
Zero-shot learning and 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, affect
Narrative generation and narrative analysis
User intent and human perception in multimedia retrieval
Query processing and relevance feedback
Multimedia browsing, summarization, and visualization
Multimedia beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data
Mobile multimedia browsing and search
Multimedia analysis/search acceleration, e.g., GPU, FPGA
Benchmarks and evaluation methodologies for multimedia analysis/search
Applications of multimedia retrieval, e.g., medicine, sports, commerce, lifelogs, travel, security, environment.

Submissions should be done with the ICMR submission system and will be peer reviewed. The paper should include an overview of the open source software package, its description, applications, intended audience, main features, etc. As part of the review process, the build process of the software will be investigated. All source code, license, installation instructions, and other documentation must be available on a public web page or on a publicly available software repository such as GitHub. Make sure to include discussions on possible use, further plans to extend or distribute the software and pointers and summaries of existing applications or demos. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM ICMR proceedings and need to be presented in an oral session of the ACM ICMR conference.

Maximum Length of a Paper

Each open source software paper should not be longer than 4 pages.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: ~~January 27~~ February 3, 2017 at 23:59 EET closed
Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2017
Camera-Ready Papers Due: ~~April 26~~ April 23, 2017

Single-Blind Review

ICMR will use a single-blind review process for open source software paper selection. Authors should provide author names and affiliations in their manuscript.

Abstract and Keywords

The abstract and the keywords form the primary source for assigning papers to reviewers. So make sure that they form a concise and complete summary of your paper with sufficient information to let someone who doesn’t read the full paper know what it is about.