Reports on CBMI 16 and ICME 16 CBMI 16

T he International Workshop on ContentBased Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) aims to annually bring together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing—from retrieval and browsing to visualization and analytics. The 14th edition of CBMI (http://cbmi2016.upb.ro) achieved its goal, maintaining the tradition of the previous successful events, the first of which was held at the Paul Sabatier University, Toulouse, back in 1999. This year’s workshop was organized by the University Politehnica of Bucharest in cooperation with University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), in Bucharest, Romania from 15–17 June. Intel Software Romania and Technicolor France cosponsored the event, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society, ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia, and European Association for Signal Processing were technical cosponsors. Althoughthe workshop was primarily a European event, contributions came from authors in 27 different countries, including the US, Singapore, Japan, China, India, and Brazil (see Figure 1). CBMI 2016 welcomed submissions as regular papers, short papers, special sessions, and demo contributions/presentations. The highlighted topics ranged from multimedia analytics, event-based media processing, and data representation and coding, to learning (including deep learning) and indexing (cross-modal and large-scale indexing), to multimedia presentation, visualization techniques, and benchmarking activities. The special sessions covered the domain-specific applications of multimedia retrieval in medicine and e-learning.