会议时间(Date)：2021年12月3-4日            会议地点(Venue)：好望角大饭店，上海市徐汇区肇嘉浜路500号

因疫情影响，本次论坛改为线上举办

Due to COVID-19，IFTC 2021 will be hold online!

About the Forum: The 18th International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication (18th IFTC) is a summit forum in the field of digital multimedia communication. The Forum is co-hosted by SIGA, The China International Industry Fair 2021 (CIIF 2021) and Springer CCIS (approval pending), and co-sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China Telecom Group Shanghai Telecom Company, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Digital Media Processing and Communication. The 18th IFTC serves as an international bridge for extensively exchanging the latest research advances of digital multimedia communication around the world as well as the relevant policies of industry authorities. The Forum is also to promote the technology, equipment and application in the field of digital media by comparing the characteristics, framework, significant techniques and their maturity, analyzing the performance of various applications in terms of scalability, manageability and portability and discussing the interfaces among varieties of networks and platforms, and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers in digital multimedia communication and its affiliated disciplines. We warmly welcome international and domestic researchers, government officials and industry leaders to Shanghai to share your visions on digital multimedia communication together.

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iftc20210

The forum program will include keynote speeches, oral and poster sessions of contributed papers. The thematic topics of 18th IFTC is Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia Communication. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including but not limited to:

Authors should submit a PDF version of their papers of 12-15 pages including results, figures and references using the Springer CCIS templet. Papers will be accepted only in English by electronic submission at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iftc20210. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by Springer in their Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series (pending final approval), indexed by EI, and Online Accessible at Springer Database. Best paper and best student paper awards will be presented at the conference. Please see the conference website (https://easychair.org/cfp/iftc2021) for details.