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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=PT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><b><span lang=EN-GB>New</span></b><span lang=EN-GB> <b>Regular/Position Paper Submission Deadline</b>: April 01, 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.sigmap.org">http://www.sigmap.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>July 06 - 08, 2021 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Online Streaming <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The purpose of SIGMAP 2021, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>SIGMAP is organized in 6 major tracks:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>1 - Multimedia Networking and Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>2 - Multimedia Signal Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>3 - Multimedia Systems and Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>4 - Multimedia and Deep Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>5 - Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>6 - Social Multimedia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Chair(s)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Program Chair(s)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>With the presence of internationally distinguished keynote speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Amarnath Gupta, University of California San Diego, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, United States<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Noel O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>Proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Mónica Saramago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>SIGMAP Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Web: <a href="http://www.sigmap.org">http://www.sigmap.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>e-mail: <a href="mailto:sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org">sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>