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Call for Regular Papers

ACM ICMR 2027 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.

ACM ICMR 2027 proceedings will be published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series. Authors are encouraged to read the Open Access notice below, as ACM has fully transitioned to an Open Access model starting in 2026.

Topics of Interest

  • Special theme 1: Multimedia retrieval in embodied AI environments (e.g., episodic retrieval, multimodal memory indexing for embodied agents, retrieval-augmented embodied AI)
  • Special theme 2: Cultural grounding and retrieval (e.g., cultural QA systems, low-resource cultural retrieval, cultural and social norms in multimodal multilingual retrieval)
  • 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

Review Style

ACM ICMR follows a double-blind review process for regular 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)
  • Avoid providing links to Websites that identify the authors

Mandatory Reviewer Service

All authors commit to serve as reviewers when invited by the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chairs. Exceptions are granted only for truly exceptional circumstances that must be:

  • Disclosed to the TPC Chairs in advance
  • Approved by the TPC Chairs as valid reasons for exemption

ACM Open Access Publishing Model

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs).

With over 2,600 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 76%). To be included in ACM Open, the corresponding author must be affiliated with a participating institution. Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial waiver.

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).

Submissions should be in two-column format, please use the following header: \documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}

Maximum Length of a Paper

Long research paper: Each long research paper should not be longer than 8 pages, plus up to 2 additional pages exclusively for the list of references. No appendices and supplementary materials are allowed.

Short research paper: Each short research paper should not be longer than 4 pages, plus up to 2 additional pages exclusively for the list of references. No appendices and supplementary materials are allowed.

Submission

More details will be announced soon.

ArXiv/Archive Policy

In accordance with ACM guidelines, ICMR 2027 adheres to the following policy regarding arXiv papers:

We define a publication as a written piece documenting scientific work that was submitted for review by peers for either acceptance or rejection, and, after review, has been accepted. Documentation of scientific work that is published in a not-for-profit archive without any form of peer-review (departmental Technical Report, arXiv.org, etc.) is not considered a publication. However, this definition of publication does include peer-reviewed workshop papers, even if they do not appear in formal proceedings. Any submission to ICMR 2027 must not have substantial overlap with prior publications or other work currently undergoing peer review anywhere.

Note that documents published on website archives are subject to change. Citing such documents is discouraged. Furthermore, ICMR 2027 will review the documents formally submitted and any additional information in a web archive version will not affect the review.