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| IEEE ICME | |
|---|---|
| Name | IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo |
| Abbreviation | ICME |
| Discipline | Signal processing, Computer vision, Multimedia systems |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| Established | 2000 |
| Frequency | Annual |
IEEE ICME
The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) is a premier annual venue for research in Signal processing, Computer vision, Machine learning, Information theory, and Human–computer interaction. ICME attracts researchers from institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and organizations including Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, and Adobe Systems. The conference features technical papers, special sessions, tutorials, and industrial exhibits, drawing participants from events like NeurIPS, CVPR, ICLR, ICASSP, and ACM Multimedia.
ICME serves as a focal point linking advances in Signal processing, Computer vision, Machine learning, Natural language processing, and Multimedia systems with applications in Telecommunications, Robotics, Healthcare, and Autonomous vehicles. Typical ICME programs include peer-reviewed proceedings, keynote talks by figures from IEEE Signal Processing Society, Association for Computing Machinery, European Association for Signal Processing, and panels featuring representatives from NVIDIA, Intel, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, and Huawei Technologies. Attendees often come from universities such as University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and National University of Singapore.
ICME originated around 2000 amid convergence of work from labs such as Bell Labs, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, and Hitachi Research. Early contributors included researchers affiliated with Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Maryland, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Toronto. Over time ICME has intersected with milestones and communities from JPEG, MPEG, ITU-T, 3GPP, and standards bodies like ISO/IEC. Host cities have ranged from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Beijing, Shanghai, Barcelona, Sydney, Seoul, Zurich, Athens, and Toronto.
ICME programs typically combine main technical tracks with workshops and tutorials co-located with events such as ICIP, ECCV, ICML, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and SIGGRAPH. Workshops have been organized by leaders from Princeton University, Yale University, Brown University, Duke University, University of Washington, University of Illinois Chicago, and industrial labs including Facebook AI Research, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Labs, and Siemens. Notable workshop topics have overlapped with initiatives from OpenAI, DeepMind, Baidu Research, Alibaba DAMO Academy, and consortia like W3C and OpenCV.
ICME covers technical areas spanning Image processing, Video coding, 3D reconstruction, Speech recognition, Multimodal learning, Augmented reality, and Virtual reality. Contributions often reference foundational work from pioneers at Bell Labs Research, MIT Media Lab, SRI International, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and NASA Ames Research Center. Methodological crossovers include algorithms rooted in Bayesian inference, Deep learning, Convolutional neural networks, Reinforcement learning, and tools popularized by frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Caffe, Keras, and Theano.
Proceedings are published under the aegis of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and indexed in databases maintained by IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Special issues have appeared in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, and Pattern Recognition. Best-paper selections often influence follow-up articles in venues like Science Advances, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the IEEE, and Communications of the ACM.
ICME confers awards including Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Technical Achievement recognitions; recipients have come from institutions like ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University of Toronto, Cornell University, and corporations such as NEC Corporation and Sony Corporation. Award committees often include fellows and medalists from IEEE Fellows, ACM Fellows, Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering, and recipients of prizes associated with IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards, ACM SIGMM Awards, and national academies like National Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Sciences.
ICME is organized by committees comprised of academics and industry representatives from IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, and local organizing institutions such as Tsinghua University, University of Southern California, Nanyang Technological University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and University of Melbourne. Sponsors have included corporations and agencies like Google Research, Microsoft Research Asia, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Sony CSL, Intel Labs, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, and national ministries including Ministry of Science and Technology (China), National Natural Science Foundation of China, and Japan Science and Technology Agency.
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