Cardiff, UK, June 29th - July 3rd, 2026
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).
All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth Standard Time (AoE=UTC-12) at 23:59:59.
The submission format and template can be found here.
Submission System: EDAS paper submission system
Short papers must describe original and unpublished work. They are likely to present a smaller and more focused contribution than full papers that can benefit from the feedback that early exposure can provide. Short papers may be no longer than 3 pages, including figures, tables + 1 page for references (3+1) using the format and template found here.
Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process (except Dataset & Tools papers which will undergo a single-blind review process).
Submissions will be judged on suitability, originality, significance, correctness, validation, thoroughness, replicability, and clarity. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 2 experts in the field. Final versions of accepted papers must take into account reviewers’ comments. Short papers will be presented as posters. Accepted papers will also be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore.
The following examples may be helpful in understanding what type of papers could be suitable for short paper submission:
Submission to the Special Sessions will be open to everybody. In case a special session cannot be realized due to a too low number of accepted papers, the corresponding accepted papers will be allocated to other sessions of the conference.
QoMEX 2026 requires each accepted paper to be presented by one of the authors at the conference according to the schedule published. One of the authors must register for the conference at one of the non-student rates offered and must register before the deadline given for author registration. Any paper accepted into the technical program, but not presented on-site will be withdrawn from the official proceedings archived on IEEE Xplore.
By submitting a manuscript, the authors guarantee that it is not previously published or under review elsewhere in a substantially similar form. Furthermore, no paper which contains significant overlap with the contributions of the submission should be submitted during the review period to either a journal or a conference. If there are papers that may appear to violate any of these conditions, then it is the author’s responsibility to (a) cite these papers (preserving anonymity), (b) argue in the body of your paper why your paper is nontrivially different from these concurrent submissions, and (c) include anonymized versions of those papers with the submission.
