Aims and scope

Multimedia Systems publishes original research on multimedia and multimedia systems, including theories, methods, tools, technologies, applications, and so on. It also accepts surveys, perspective articles and brave-new-idea articles.

Coverage in Multimedia Systems includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

Multimedia systems

Operating systems, real-time systems, distributed systems and cyber-physical systems
Middleware communities
Transport and delivery
I/O architectures and I/O devices
Data systems management and indexing
Multimedia scalability and management
Multimedia software and systems integration

Multimedia communications

Real-time protocols
Fog/edge/cloud computing
Multimedia streaming, interchange and transmission
Multimedia Internet of Things
Multicast and group communication

Multimedia processing

Multimedia compression, coding and editing
Multimedia storage
Multi-sensory experiences
Multimedia security, privacy and rights management

Multimedia analysis

Multimodal fusion and embedding
Multimedia representation, retrieval, classification and description
Multimedia search and recommendations
Media interpretation, summarization, and understanding
Social media computing
Emotional multimedia analysis

Multimedia applications

Healthcare and medicine on multimedia
Interactions and quality of experiences
Art and culture
Multimedia user interfaces
Multimedia-based education
New integrated media