Author Description

We are proud to present a remarkably diverse and highly interesting Technical Program for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2018 (ACM Multimedia 2018), which for the first time takes place in Seoul, Korea. This year, a total of 15 areas of interest were grouped into four research themes, including an Understanding Theme (covering Multimedia and Vision, Multimodal Analysis and Description, and Deep Learning for Multimedia), an Engagement Theme (covering Emotional and Social Signals in Multimedia, Multimedia Search and Recommendation, and Social Multimedia), an Experience Theme (covering Multimedia HCI and Quality of Experience, Multimedia Art, Entertainment and Culture, Multimedia for Collaboration in Education and Distributed Environments, and Music, Speech and Audio Processing in Multimedia), and a System Theme (covering Mobile Multimedia, Multimedia Scalability and Management System, Multimedia Systems and Middleware, Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Multimedia Transport and Delivery). Each research theme was overseen by one of this year's Technical Program Chairs. For each area of interest, a team of Area Chairs (ACs), ranging from 2 to 19 members, was recruited to handle the paper review process. In total, 92 ACs were appointed. The sizes of the teams were defined based on the anticipated number of submissions in each area. All submissions co-authored by program chairs (in total only three submissions) were handled in a separate Conflict-of-Interest (CoI) track led by the Program Co-chair Tao Mei. The paper assignment was conducted by the combination of an automatic paper matching process (i.e., Toronto Paper Matching System) and the relevance matching between the paper and reviewer categories. The papers were handled in a double-blind fashion and for each paper a minimum of three reviews were required. We have recruited 685 program committee members to contribute their professional reviews to the submissions in a double-bl