<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">— Special sessions proposals at CBMI 2026 conference —<br><br>The 23rd edition of CBMI (</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="https://cbmi2026.sciencesconf.org/"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: blue;">https://cbmi2026.sciencesconf.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;">), the conferenced endorse by IEEE and ACM SIGMM will be organized by the IRIT laboratory at University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France. CBMI conference aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. Topics of interest to the CBMI community include, but are not limited to the following: audio and visual and multimedia analysis and indexing, multimodal and cross-modal indexing, deep learning for multimedia indexing, visual content extraction, audio (speech, music, etc.) content extraction, identification and tracking of semantic regions and events, social media analysis, ...<br><br><b>CBMI 2026 aims to host special sessions during the conference</b>. Special sessions are mini-venues, each focusing on topic within the content-based multimedia indexing field which is not directly covered by the list of topics for the conference, but which are beneficial to the community. It may cover a theoretical or and application-oriented questions. <br><br><b>Special session should include four to five papers, which can be invited, or be regular submissions</b>. Special session papers will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of CBMI 2026. In order to ensure the high quality of all conference papers, all papers submitted to special sessions at CBMI 2026 will be peer-reviewed through a standard review process, including invited papers. The organizers of each special session must provide 1-2 reviews per submitted/invited paper, while the regular program committee will provide 1-2 reviews. Final decision on acceptance/rejection will be made in collaboration between the special session chairs (Julien Aligon, University of Toulouse Capitole, France - Jenny Benois Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France - Stefanos Vrochilis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece) and CBMI 2026 TPC chairs (Annamaria Mesaros, Tampere University, Finland - Alain Crouzil, University of Toulouse, France - Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland).<br><br>— Deadline — <br><b>Deadline for special session proposals: 24 February 2026 (AoE)<br>Notification : 3 March 2026 (AoE)</b><br><br>— Submission process —<br><b>Proposals must be made using the following template</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="https://cloud.irit.fr/s/BzYJbHpx5RQ99I5"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: blue;">https://cloud.irit.fr/s/BzYJbHpx5RQ99I5</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br>and <b>sent to the following contact address</b>: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><a href="mailto:cbmi2026specialsession@irit.fr"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: blue;">cbmi2026specialsession@irit.fr</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;"><br><br>— Special session chairs — <br>- Julien Aligon, University of Toulouse Capitole, France<br>- Jenny Benois Pineau, University of Bordeaux, France<br>- Stefanos Vrochilis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div>
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