ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in the area of multimedia within the field of computer science. Multimedia research focuses on technologies that enable the use and exchange of content integrating the multiple perspectives of different digital modalities, including images, text, video, audio, speech, music, and sensor data.
The Brave New Ideas (BNI) Track of ACM Multimedia 2020 is calling for innovative papers that open up new vistas for multimedia research. Submissions should be scientifically rigorous and also introduce fresh perspectives. We expect a BNI paper to stimulate activity towards addressing new, long term challenges of interest to the multimedia research community.
We understand “brave” to mean that a paper (or an area of research introduced by the paper) has great potential for high impact. For the proposed algorithm, technology or application to be understood as high impact, the authors should be able to argue that their proposal is important to solving problems, to supporting new perspectives, or to providing services that directly affect people’s lives.
We understand “new” to mean that an idea has not yet been proposed before. The component techniques and technologies may exist, but their integration must be novel.
The “Brave New Idea” of the paper can be backed up in one (or a combination) of three ways:
Note that is not necessary that papers in this track have large-scale experimental results or comparisons to the state-of-the-art, since it is expected that large, publicly available datasets may not be available, and there may be no existing approaches to which the proposed approach in the paper can be compared.
Submissions must be no more than 8 pages in length. For more details on the format, please see the submission instructions in the main conference call for papers. https://2020.acmmm.org/call-for-paper.html
Submissions will be reviewed by a set of three independent reviewers, and the decisions will be made on the basis of their feedback. Review criteria are: scientific impact, intellectual rigor, and a compelling case for the paper to be innovative in the sense described above.
We expect BNI papers to be submitted directly to the BNI track. However, at the discretion of the Chairs, submissions to regular full paper track may be recommended to the “Brave New Ideas” Track for consideration.
Important note for the authors: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to the published work.
For any questions regarding submissions, please email the Brave New Ideas Chairs (mm20-bni@sigmm.org):