Multimedia in Underwater Information Processing and Exploration

Nantes, France
June 30 to July 4, 2025
Jointly with ICME 2025

Call for Papers

Underwater information processing plays a critical role in addressing global challenges, including marine resource exploration, environmental conservation, and ecological protection. However, the underwater environment remains one of the most complex and dynamic domains, with persistent challenges such as low visibility, acoustic distortion, and heterogeneous data sources. The integration of cutting-edge multimedia technologies and advanced multi-modal data fusion presents transformative solutions to these challenges, offering innovative pathways for understanding and utilizing underwater environments.

This workshop invites high-quality submissions that explore the use of multimedia technologies, such as imaging, video, sonar, acoustics, and laser sensing, for advancing underwater information processing. It aims to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and highlight the latest breakthroughs in leveraging multimedia for environmental monitoring, navigation, and resource exploration.

We plan to invite 2 keynote speakers to present their insightful perspectives. We sincerely invite high-quality papers presenting or addressing issues related to underwater information processing, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Multi-modal Fusion Enhanced Underwater Data Integration and Analysis
  • Multimedia-based Underwater Image and Video Processing
  • Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing
  • Underwater 3D Modeling and Reconstruction with Multi-modal Techniques
  • Multimedia-supported Underwater Target Detection and Recognition Tasks
  • Multi-modal Underwater Navigation and Localization
  • Marine Monitoring and Ecological Protection with Multimedia Technologies
  • Underwater Visual Quality Assessment and Large Multimodal Models


Paper Submission

Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors of ICME available at Author Information and Submission Instructions: https://2025.ieeeicme.org/author-information-and-submission-instructions/

Submission address: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICMEW2025


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Important Dates

Submissions Deadline:
[TBD]
Notification of Acceptance:
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Camera-Ready Deadline:
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Worshop Date:
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Keynotes (1/2)

Keynote 1


Speaker:

Yvan Petillot

Title:

To be determined ...

Time:

08:40 – 09:20, July, 2025

Abstract:

To be determined ...

Biography:

Yvan Petillot is a Professor of Robotics and Computer Vision at Heriot-Watt University. He is a leading member of the Oceans Systems Laboratory, the deputy director of the Institute for Sensor Signals and Systems and the deputy director of the joint research institute in Signal and Image Processing (ERP-SIP) with Edinburgh University. He is also currently a Royal Society Industry Fellow in collaboration with SeeByte Ltd, a company he co-founded in 2001 and in which he was Chief Technical Officer until 2010. With over 15 years experience in Robotics, Image Processing and Autonomous Systems in the maritime domain, he has made very significant contributions to target detection and classification multiple vehicle collaboration and autonomous inspection and manipulation. He has a long history of successful collaborations with other leading researchers in Europe through a number of European Research Projects (ALIVE, Autotracker, Amason, 2005, FreeSubNet 2008, Trident, 2010, Eurathlon 2012) totaling over £1.5M of research funding. He had also been working closely with MOD and DSTL on defense related projects and secured a number of EPSRC projects in the robotics and signal processing areas. He was recently awarded a programme grant in Signal Processing for the Networked battle space in collaboration with Edinburgh University and is leading the research in the maritime domain. He created the first European Competition in Underwater Robotics for autonomous systems in 2006, with support from EPSRC and MOD and has led this effort since in collaboration with the NATO Undersea Research Centre. He has since been awarded and European Union Funded project (Eurathlon) to develop a real-world competition for disaster relief covering the air, land and sea domains.

Keynotes (2/2)

Keynote 2


Speaker:

Guangtao Zhai

Title:

To be determined ...

Time:

10:10 – 10:55, July, 2025

Abstract:

To be determined ...

Biography:

Guangtao Zhai is a professor in the department of electronics engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are in the fields of multimedia and perceptual signal processing. He has published over 400 research papers in international journals and conferences and has received seven best paper awards, including the 2018 IEEE Multimedia Prize Paper Award and the 2022 IEEE Broadcast Technology Society Best Paper Award. He is a member of IEEE CAS MSA TC and SPS IVMSP TC and serves as editor-in-chief of Displays journal published by Elsevier.

Conference Program

08:30 - 08:40
Opening
08:40 - 09:20
Invited Talk 1
09:20 - 09:50
Oral session (2 presentations: 15 min each)
09:50 - 10:10
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:50
Invited talk 2
10:50 - 11:50
Poster Session (10 posters)
11:50 - 12:00
Close speech

Technical Program Committee (Tentative)

  • Patrick Le Callet, University of Nantes, France
  • Zheheng Jiang, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
  • Long Chen, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  • Chen Feng, University College London, United Kingdom
  • Xiyu Wang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  • Cong Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
  • Hao Xie, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR
  • Yuan Rao, Ocean University of China, China
  • Guodong Fan, Qingdao University, China

Organizing Team

Junyu Dong

Ocean University of China

dongjunyu@ouc.edu.cn


Prof. Junyu Dong received his BSc and MSc from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Ocean University of China in 1993 and 1999 respectively, and received his PhD in November 2003 in Heriot-Watt University, UK. He is currently a professor and the Dean of Faculty of Information Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China. His research interests include 3D underwater imaging and machine learning with applications in marine science. He has been the principal investigator of more than 10 research projects supported by NSFC and MOST. He has published more than 200 major journal and conference papers. He is the founding editor of Journal of Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems, and also a Chairman of Qingdao Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Guangtao Zhai

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

zhaiguangtao@sjtu.edu.cn


Guangtao Zhai is a distinguished professor of EE Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has been working in the field of multimedia signal processing for 20 years with a focus on perceptual quality assessment. He won the best paper and best paper runner-up award of IEEE Trans. Multimedia. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Displays (Elsevier)and as Chairman of the Shanghai Image and Graphics Association. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

Yakun Ju

University of Leicester

yj174@leicester.ac.uk


Yakun Ju is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at University of Leicester, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Yakun earned his Bachelor's degree from Sichuan University in 2016 and his Ph.D. from Ocean University of China in 2022. His research interests span 3D reconstruction, medical image processing, underwater information perception, computational imaging, and low-level vision. He has authored over 50 publications in top-ranked journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TIP, IEEE TVCG, IJCV, CVPR, NeurIPS, AAAI, and IJCAI, etc. Yakun also contributes as an editorial board member or guest editor for seven journals.

Sen Wang

Imperial College London

sen.wang@imperial.ac.uk


Dr. Sen Wang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and I-X, Imperial College London. Previously, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor at Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and UK National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University and a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on robot perception and long-term autonomy, especially robot vision, Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) and robot learning. He serves as Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IEEE ICRA and IROS conferences.

Hui Yu

University of Glasgow

Hui.Yu@glasgow.ac.uk


Hui Yu is a Professor with the University of Glasgow, UK. He leads the Visual Computing and Social Robot Group at the university. His research interests lie in visual and cognitive computing as well as machine learning with applications to social signal analysis, social robot, human-machine interaction, intelligent vehicle, and video analysis. Professor Yu’s research work has led to several awards and successful collaboration with worldwide institutions and industries. He is the Associate Vice President of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and He has been awarded Industrial Fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica.