About the Forum: The 21st International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication (IFTC 2024) is a summit forum in the field of digital multimedia communication. The Forum is co-hosted by SIGA, Communication University of China and Springer CCIS (approval pending). It is organized by the Hainan International College of Communication University of China, the School of Data Science and Media Intelligence of Communication University of China and South New Media, and is co-organized by the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication (Communication University of China), Key Laboratory of Media Audio & Video of Ministry of Education (Communication University of China). The Forum is co-sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science, Shanghai Telecom Company, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Digital Media Processing and Communication, and Shanghai Qing Assistant Technology Company Ltd. The forum is supported by K.C.Wong Education Foundation, Hong Kong.

The 21st IFTC serve 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 applications in the field of digital media by comparing the characteristics, frameworks, 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 Beijing to share your visions on digital multimedia communication together. The excellent papers will be recommended to Displays (SCI journal) after being extended.

Submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IFTC2024/

The forum program will include keynote speeches, oral and poster sessions of contributed papers. The thematic topics of 21st IFTC is Multimodel LLM 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, see the IFTC 2024 author kit for details. Papers will be accepted only in English by electronic submission at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IFTC2024/. 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 in EI, and Online Accessible at Springer Database. Best paper and best student paper awards will be presented at the conference.