Cardiff, UK, June 29th - July 3rd, 2026
The 18th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX’26) will take place in Cardiff, Wales, from June 29 to July 3, 2026. This event will gather top experts from both academia and industry to showcase and discuss the latest research on multimedia quality, Quality of Experience (QoE), and User Experience (UX). By doing so, it will promote excellence in multimedia technology development, aiming to enhance user well-being, while encouraging collaboration among diverse multidisciplinary communities.
This special issue aims to collect extended versions of high-quality papers accepted at the 18th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX’26), including contributions presented in the general track, dataset and tools track, and special sessions. All accepted QoMEX full and short papers are eligible for submission, provided that the journal version contains at least 25% new material compared to the original conference publication. Extensions are expected to include substantial new technical contributions, such as additional experimental results, deeper methodological analysis, extended validation, or broader discussion, in accordance with the standards of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM).
(#) year, city, country (chairs), accepted papers/submitted papers (acceptance rate)
17) 2025, Madrid, Spain (chairs: Narciso García, Pablo Pérez).
16) 2024, Karlshamn, Sweden (chairs: Markus Fiedler, Lea Skorin-Kapov), 30/55 (54.5%)
15) 2023, Ghent, Belgium (chairs: Maria Torres Vega, Katrien De Moor), 31/62 (50%)
14) 2022, Lippstadt, Germany (Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons), 42/86 (48.8%)
13) 2021, Montreal, Canada (Tiago H. Falk and Amy Reibman), 44/91 (48.4%)
12) 2020, Athlone, Ireland (Niall Murray and Andrew Hines), 76/152 (50%)
11) 2019, Berlin, Germany (Sebastian Möller and Sebastian Egger-Lampl), 68/159 (42.7%)
10) 2018, Sardinia, Italy (Luigi Atzori and Sebastian Möller)
09) 2017, Erfurt, Germany (Alexander Raake)
08) 2016, Lisbon, Portugal (Fernando Pereira)
07) 2015, Costa Navarino, Greece (Athanassios Skodras)
06) 2014, Singapore (Stefan Winkler)
05) 2013, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria (Christian Timmerer and Patrick Le Callet), 52/118 (44.1%)
04) 2012, Yara Valley, Australia (Ian Burnett)
03) 2011, Mechelen, Belgium: (Peter Schelkens and David Geerts), 36/80 (45%)
02) 2010, Trondheim, Norway (Andrew Perkis and Sebastian Möller), 43/74 (58%)
01) 2009, San Diego, CA, USA (Touradj Ebrahimi and Khaled El-Maleh), 45/75 (60%)
