Author Instructions

This page provides instructions for authors submitting papers to any of the tracks of ACM Multimedia 2026. Please carefully read the following guidelines before submitting your paper.

Scope

Topics

The topics of interest of ACM Multimedia 2026 include (see the Topics of Interest for full description):

• Art and Culture
• Data Systems Management and Indexing
• Embodied and Immersive Multimedia
• Emotional and Social Signals
• Interactions and Quality of Experience
• Multimedia Applications
• Multimodal Fusion
• Multimedia Generative and Foundation Models
• Multimedia Interpretability and Explainability
• Multimedia and Language
• Multimedia Search and Recommendation
• Multimedia Reasoning
• New Forms of Media Content
• Responsible Multimedia
• Summarization, Analytics, and Storytelling
• Transport and Delivery

Multimedia/multimodality Policy for Paper Submissions

As the volume of submissions to the MM conference continues to grow annually, the SIGMM community seeks to distinguish itself from other communities such as NeurIPS, CVPR, and ECCV. Our focus lies in promoting research that is inherently multimedia or multimodal in nature. While papers that involve unimedia/unimodal processing will not necessarily be rejected, papers that make multimedia/multimodal research contributions will be preferred for publication in the conference proceedings. Out-of-scope submissions may be desk-rejected.

Submission Deadlines, Format, and Platform

Deadlines

OpenReview Platform

Submit your contributions via OpenReview. Please check the specific call for papers to find the submission link for each track.

All listed authors must have an up-to-date OpenReview profile. It is important to create it as soon as possible, given OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles:

• New profiles created without an institutional email will go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks.
• New profiles created with an institutional email will (normally) be activated automatically.

The OpenReview profile will be used to handle conflicts of interest and paper matching. To be considered complete, each author profile must be properly attributed with the following mandatory fields: current and past institutional affiliation (going back at least 5 years), homepage, DBLP (if there is prior publication), ORCID, Advisors and Recent Publications (if any). In addition, other fields such as Google Scholar, LinkedIn, Semantic Scholar, Advisees and Other Relations should be entered wherever applicable. An incomplete OpenReview profile of any co-author is sufficient ground for a desk rejection.

Paper Format

• Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the ACM Article Template (https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template).
• Please remember to add Concepts and Keywords.
• Please use the template in traditional double-column format to prepare your submissions. For example, word users should use Word Interim Template, and LaTeX users should use sample-sigconf-authordraft template.
• When using sample-sigconf-authordraft Latex template, for submission and review of manuscript you could use the following documentclass command instead of the example provided in the template: \documentclass[sigconf, screen, review, anonymous]{acmart}
• Please ensure that you submit your papers subscribing to this format for full consideration during the review process.

Desk rejection Crteria

ArXiv/Archive Policy

In accordance with ACM guidelines, all SIGMM-sponsored conferences adhere to the following policy regarding arXiv papers:

We define a publication as a written piece documenting scientific work that was submitted for review by peers for either acceptance or rejection, and, after review, has been accepted. Documentation of scientific work that is published in a not-for-profit archive without any form of peer-review (departmental Technical Report, arXiv.org, etc.) is not considered a publication. However, this definition of publication does include peer-reviewed workshop papers, even if they do not appear in formal proceedings. Any submission to ACM Multimedia must not have substantial overlap with prior publications or other work currently undergoing peer review anywhere. Note that documents published on website archives are subject to change. Citing such documents is discouraged. Furthermore, ACM Multimedia will review the documents formally submitted and any additional information in a web archive version will not affect the review.

Contribution Length by Track

Blinding

All tracks of ACM Multimedia (except the Reproducibility and the Dataset Tracks) request contributions to conform with the “double-blind” review policy. This means that the authors will not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers will not know the names of the authors. Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors. Papers without appropriate blinding will be desk-rejected without review. For example, when preparing your manuscript:

• Do not put the authors' names under the title.
• Avoid using phrases such as “our previous work” when referring to earlier publications by the authors.
• Remove information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs).
• Check supplemental material (e.g., titles in the video clips, or supplementary documents) for information that may identify the authors' identities.
• Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors.

For reviewer assignment, the technical program chairs may employ local LLM instances or similar technologies to process your submissions. No information will be shared with third parties.

Originality

Papers submitted to ACM Multimedia must be the original work of the authors. They may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere (conference or journal). Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to ACM Multimedia (see also the arXiv/Archive policy below). Authors should be aware that ACM has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism and self-plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately.

Author List

Please ensure that you submit your papers with the full and final list of authors in the correct order. The author list registered for each submission is not allowed to change in any way after the abstract submission deadline. Note that this rule regards the identity of authors, but typos can be fixed.

Paper Title

As per MM Policy, paper titles should remain the same between submission and the camera-ready version. Changing the title and abstract of a submission is possible until the final regular paper deadline, although it is advised against making substantial changes.

Proofreading

Please proofread your submission carefully. It is essential that the language used in the paper is clear and correct so that it is easily understandable. (Either US English or UK English spelling conventions are acceptable.)