Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• 3D images and models 
• 3D imaging
• Advanced descriptors and similarity metrics for images, audio and video  
• Affect-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos 
• Applications in broadcast, web, cultural heritage, satellite, forensic, and (bio-)medical image and video collections
• Case studies and emerging technologies 
• Classification and clustering techniques 
• Color and texture 
• Compression methods 
• Computational geometry 
• Computer animation 
• Computer art and entertainment (including games) 
• Content-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos 
• Curves and meshes 
• Database architectures for image/video retrieval 
• e-Learning applications and computer graphics
• Emerging display technologies 
• Evaluation of image and video retrieval systems 
• Face recognition, face detection, and gesture recognition
• Fractal geometry and applications
• Fusion of multimedia
• Graph theory in image processing and vision 
• Modeling techniques
• Multimedia Systems and Applications 
• Multimodal display systems 
• Multimodal human computer interaction 
• Novel image data management systems and applications
• Object recognition 
• Ontologies for annotation and search of images and videos 
• Query models, paradigms, and languages for image/video retrieval 
• Real-time collision detection algorithms
• Real-time rendering for VR
• Rendering methods 
• Retrieval from multimodal lifelogs
• Semantic-based indexing, search, and retrieval of images & videos 
• Shadows, translucency and visibility 
• Signal and speech processing 
• Graphics algorithms and applications
• Haptic devices and techniques 
• High performance image/video indexing algorithms 
• Human-computer interfaces
• Illumination and reflection techniques 
• Image compression, coding, and encryption 
• Image data structures for computer graphics
• Image feature extraction
• Image generation, acquisition, and processing
• Image geometry and multi-view geometry
• Image/video search and browsing on the Web
• Image/video summarization and visualization 
• Image-based modeling and algorithms
• Immersive virtual reality 
• Integration of virtual reality and multimedia
• Interactive digital media
• Interactive techniques
• Knowledge-based recognition
• Learning and assessment based on virtual reality approaches
• Learning and relevance feedback in image/video retrieval
• Machine learning technologies for vision
• Machine architectures/engines for graphics and VR
• Modeling of natural scenes and phenomena 
• Simulation and virtual reality 
• Software tools for computer graphics 
• Software tools for virtual reality 
• Sound rendering technologies
• Studies of information-seeking behavior among image/video users 
• Surface modeling 
• Virtual and augmented reality 
• Virtual environments 
• Virtual humans and artificial life 
• Virtual laboratories
• Virtual reality and emerging applications 
• Virtual reality software tools and languages 
• Virtual reality techniques for behavioral and cognitive assessment
• Virtual reality, visualization, and education
• Visual computing and graphics 
• Visualization