The conference accepts 5 types of contributions:

• Regular papers, describing novel results in the conference research topics
• Special session papers, describing novel results that are focused on selected narrow topics
• Video Browser Showdown (VBS) papers for the video browsing contest attendees
• Demo papers, giving an overview of new interesting software or methods
• Brave New Ideas

All paper submissions must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series, and must strictly adhere to the submission schedule.

Each contribution (regular, special session, VBS, demo paper, etc.) must be associated with one full conference registration; only one contribution can be associated with each registration. Registered participants are expected to attend the conference.

For publishing in Open Access or Open Choice, please refer to the Springer webpage for prices and additional information. The invoicing address and the CC-BY licence-to-publish agreement are needed at the same time as the files for the publication.

Full paper submissions (Regular & Special Session papers) must not exceed 12 pages (all manuscript content, including figures, tables and references, must fit into the page limit).

Regular research paper submissions (including special session papers – except if explicitly stated otherwise in the call text for a specific special session) will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process; thus, the submissions need to be properly anonymized.