Major events in multimedia information retrieval

Multimedia information retrieval (MIR) is a relatively young field in computer science. There are several well-established scientific meetings which produce high-quality peer-reviewed contributions. This editorial summarizes the currentmajor events and meetings. The top conference inMIR is the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR). The roots of the meeting began in 2002 with the Challenges in Image and VideoRetrieval (CIVR) conferences and then combinedwith several other meetings in 2011 for the first ICMR. Within 3 years, ICMR had already achieved international recognition and was considered by some of the more influential conference rankings (e.g. CCF) to be a top conference in the wide domain of graphics and multimedia. Furthermore, Google conference rankings placed it in the top ten of all multimedia journal and conference publications in terms of citations. ICMR is sponsored by SIGMM and typically held in June: