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