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, and 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

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​

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.