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. VCIP 2021 will be hosted in the beautiful city of Munich and it 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”. VCIP 2021 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 networks