ACM Mile-High Video Conference 2025: Call for Contributions

ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) is a flagship industry-oriented technical conference in the area of video technologies, which has been successfully running in Denver, Colorado, starting from 2016. ACM MHV 2025 welcomes contributions from both industry and academia to share real-world problems and solutions as well as novel approaches and innovations from content production to consumption. ACM MHV 2025 will provide a unique opportunity to view the interplay of the industry and academia in the area of video technologies.

ACM MHV contributions are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas:

• Content production, encoding, and packaging

  • Encoding for broadcast, mobile, and OTT (incl. using AI/ML in encoding),

  • New and emerging audio, image, and video codecs (incl. point cloud coding, light field coding, holography coding, etc.)

  • Edge, network, and cloud-based coding

  • Perceptually optimized objective quality metrics

  • Quality assessment models and tools, and user experience studies

  • Storage applications for video processing and streaming

  • Accessibility

  • HDR

• Video workflows

  • Virtualized headends, cloud-based workflows for production and distribution

  • Redundancy and resilience in content origination

  • Ingest protocols

  • Ad insertion

• Content delivery and security

  • Developments in transport protocols and new delivery paradigms

  • Protection for OTT distribution and tools against piracy

  • Analytics

• Streaming technologies

  • Adaptive streaming and transcoding

  • Low latency

  • Player, playback, and QoE developments

  • Content discovery, promotion, and recommendation systems

  • Protocol and Web API improvements and innovations for streaming video

• Industry trends

  • 3D/XR video (NeRF, Gaussian splatting, etc.)

  • Scalable and multi-view video coding deployments

  • Video and audio coding for machines

  • Cloud gaming and gaming streaming

  • Provenance, content authentication, and deepfakes

  • Energy management in video compression and streaming

  • Edge computing tools and applications

  • Hardware for content encoding, storage, and distribution

• Standards and interoperability

  • New and developing standards in the media and delivery space

  • Interoperability guidelines

Reasons for academics to submit to and attend the ACM Mile-High Video 2025 event:

• Networking with Industry Leaders: Engage with top minds from both academia and industry, fostering collaborations and partnerships in cutting-edge video technology.
• High Visibility: Present your research to a global audience, including key industry players and decision-makers.
• Innovative Content: Showcase your work in emerging areas such as metaverse, AI-driven video technologies, and advanced codecs.
• Research Impact: Influence the direction of next-gen video technology and its applications across industries.

Participating in ACM MHV 2025 is a prime opportunity to boost academic careers by connecting theoretical research with real-world innovations.

Persuasive reasons for industry professionals to submit and attend ACM Mile-High Video 2025:

• Access to Cutting-Edge Research: Stay at the forefront of video technology with insights into innovations in streaming, codecs, and content delivery.
• Collaborate with Academia: Engage with academic researchers to explore potential partnerships that can accelerate R&D and technological breakthroughs.
• Showcase Industry Leadership: Present your company’s pioneering solutions, fostering brand recognition and thought leadership in the global video tech  community.
• Talent and Recruitment: Discover emerging talent and ideas that could impact your organization’s future.

Participating drives industry growth through shared knowledge and collaboration!

Prospective speakers are invited to submit an extended abstract (one page ~400 words + references) that will be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV technical program committee (TPC) for relevance, timeliness, and technical correctness.

The authors of the accepted extended abstracts will be invited to optionally submit a full-length paper (up to six pages + references) for possible inclusion into the conference proceedings. These papers must be original work (i.e., not published previously in a journal or conference) and will also be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV TPC.

Accepted extended abstracts and full-length papers will be presented at the ACM MHV conference, and, optionally, will be published at the conference proceedings within the ACM Digital Library.

All prospective ACM authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

How to Submit an Extended Abstract

Prospective authors are invited to submit one-page extended abstracts here

Important Dates

• Extended abstract submission deadline: Oct. 14, 2024 AoE

• Notification of extended abstract acceptance: Nov. 27, 2024 AoE

• Optional: Full-length paper submission deadline: Dec. 16, 2024 AoE

• Notification of full-length paper acceptance: Jan. 22, 2025 AoE

• Camera-ready submission (extended abstracts/full-length papers) deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 AoE

ACM MHV 2025 Program Chairs

• Christian Timmerer (AAU; christian.timmerer AT aau.at)

• Dan Grois (AnyAI; dgrois AT acm.org)

• Gwendal Simon (Synamedia; gsimon AT synamedia.com)

• Jill Boyce (Nokia; jill.boyce AT nokia.com)

• Yuriy Reznik (Brightcove; yreznik AT brightcove.com)