VCIP is proudly the oldest conference in the field and one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE CAS Visual Signal Processing and Communications. Since 1986 VCIP has served as a premier forum for the exchange of fundamental and applied research in the field of visual communications and image processing. We invite you to participate in VCIP 2021 which we host in the beautiful city of Munich. VCIP 2021 inherits the tradition of previous conferences in providing a fertile ground for leading engineers and scientists from around the world to disseminate their research outcomes and push forward the frontiers of knowledge within these and related areas. The main conference theme of 2021 is “Visual communications in the era of AI and limited resources”.

The VCIP 2021 Call for Papers topics cover but are not limited to:

• Emerging Techniques for Image and Video Coding Standards
• Image and video compression beyond standards
• Evaluation of image and video coding standards
• Video coding for machines
• Compression of neural networks for visual communications
• Dynamic Point Cloud Capture and Compression
• Image/Video Privacy
• Advanced Techniques for Immersive Video
• Visual Communications
• Visual Processing Embedded Systems and Architecture Implementations
• Cloud Multimedia Systems, Applications and Services
• Multimedia Content Analysis, Representation, and Understanding
• Machine learning for Multimedia
• Multimedia and Multimodal User Interfaces and Interaction Models
• Multimedia Networking, Multimedia Traffic Management
• Efficient and Massively Scalable Multimedia Service Distribution, Multimedia
• Delivery, Multimedia Broadcasting
• Mobile Multimedia, Wireless Multimedia Communications
• Low Delay and Multipath Video Communication over 5G network
• Multi- und Hyperspectral Image Communication
• Automated Machine Learning for Visual Signal Processing