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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=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your latest research results (regular or position papers) to the 18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2021), that will be held Online from July 06 to July 08, 2021, until the 21st of May.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Please notice this is a hard deadline and will not be extended.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>SIGMAP 2021 is an annual conference whose goal 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=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference will be held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia and will include in its technical program remarkable distinguished speakers, such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.sigmap.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#1"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Amarnath Gupta, </span></a>University of California San Diego, United States<br><a href="http://www.sigmap.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#2"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Henning Schulzrinne, </span></a>United States<br><a href="http://www.sigmap.org/KeynoteSpeakers.aspx#3"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Noel O’Connor, </span></a>Dublin City University, Ireland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>The conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Engineering Index (EI), Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index and a short list of <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm'><span lang=EN-GB>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=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Mónica Saramago<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>On behalf of<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=EN-GB>Conference Chair<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=MsoPlainText>Program Chair<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Web: <span lang=EN-GB><a href="http://www.sigmap.org"><span lang=PT>http://www.sigmap.org</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></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>