ICME 2020: Call for special session papers

Graph Neural Networks for Multimedia Representation Learning

Graphs are flexible mathematical structures modeling pairwise relations between data entities, such as brain networks, social networks, transportation networks, knowledge graphs, irregular geometric data, etc. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are generalizations of CNNs to graph-structured data, which have been attracting increasing attention due to the great expressive power. Thanks to its convincing performance and high interpretability, GNNs have been widely employed to represent various kinds of multimedia data, such as social networks, 3D point clouds, natural languages, etc.

While GNNs have progressed in multimedia representation learning, GNN models still remain challenging in offering satisfactory representation for multimedia data theoretically, e.g., optimizing the underlying graph, designing deep GNN representation, addressing dynamic graph structures, etc. Moreover, how to develop scalable GNNs for large-scale multimedia data still requires many efforts.

This special session serves as a forum for researchers from academia and industry to share their insights and cutting-edge results in GNNs for multimedia representation learning. Both theoretical development and applications of GNNs are welcome for submission.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

Maximum Length of a Paper

Papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including all text, figures, and references.

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 29 Nov 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 6 Mar 2020
Camera-Ready Papers Due: 3 Apr 2020

Submission Instructions

See the ICME 2020 Paper submission section.

Organizers

Wei Hu, PKU
forhuwei@pku.edu.cn
Zheng Wang, NII
wangz@nii.ac.jp
Shin'ichi Satoh, NII/UTokyo
satoh@nii.ac.jp
Chia-Wen Lin, NTHU
cwlin@ee.nthu.edu.tw