Editorial for the ICMR 2019 special issue

Excerpt

As the readers of this journal will attest, effectively and efficiently retrieving multimedia information is one of the most critical, yet challenging, tasks in a broad spectrum of application domains and multimedia retrieval continues to be one of the fastest growing research areas in multimedia computing. Along with this journal, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) is the premier forum of knowledge exchange for researchers and practitioners of multimedia retrieval algorithms, tools, and systems. The scope of the conference, which emerged through the fusion of the long-running and very successful conference series, ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) and ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR), includes core topics in multimedia retrieval and recommendation (such as large-scale and multimodal indexing), as well as the broader set of topics (such as mixed reality user interaction) that must be addressed to ensure that multimedia retrieval technologies are of practical use in real-world use cases. …