<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:17.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#414142" face="arial, sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:17.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#414142" face="arial, sans-serif">We hope this email finds you well. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:17.25pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(65,65,66);text-align:center">The International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA2023) </span><span style="color:rgb(65,65,66);text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.25pt">WILL BE CONDUCTED IN HYBRID MODE IN JUNE 19-22, 2023 IN VALENCIA, SPAIN.</span><span style="text-align:center"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify">As we all know, dealing with data from different modalities is the common case in today's systems. With the continuous development in network technologies, acquisition systems, and computational power, creating and sharing multimedia data is becoming easier for all people around the world. On Facebook, for example, around 500000 comments are posted and around 135000 images are uploaded every second. Storing, searching in, analysing, and utilizing Multimedia data is highly challenging. That is why the International Conference on Multimedia Computing, Networking and Applications (MCNA) gives the opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their efforts in addressing the challenges of dealing with Multimedia data.</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="text-align:justify">Conference link: </span><a href="http://intelligenttech.org/MCNA2023/" target="_blank" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">http://intelligenttech.org/</span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:none">MCNA2023</span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">/</span></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submission Link: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcna2023" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=</span><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration-line:none">mcna2023</span></a></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Researchers from both the industry and academia are encouraged to submit their original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to the following topics:</font></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Intelligent Image / Video Analytics</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Digital Image and Video Processing</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Image Rendering and Quality</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Imaging Sensors and Acquisition Systems</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Content Based Image/Video Retrieval</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Vision for Graphics</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Human Behaviour Understanding</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Deep Artificial Intelligence</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Motion and Tracking Algorithms and Applications</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Watermarking Methods and Protection</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Image Data Structures and Databases</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Colour Reproduction</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Image Compression, Coding, and Encryption</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Statistical and Structural Pattern Recognition</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Performance Analysis and Evaluation</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Novel Image Processing Applications</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Machine Learning Technologies for Vision</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Multimedia in Bioinformatics</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Virtual Reality and Simulations</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Augmented Reality Image Processing</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Computational and Architectural Aspects of Human Vision</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Innovative Multimedia Systems or Devices</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Internet / Mobile Multimedia Sharing</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Intelligent e-Health based on Multimedia Analysis</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Games and Gamification</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Optimization Methods in Multimedia systems</font></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:black"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Vision and Languages</font></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><u><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submission Guidelines:</font></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submitted papers (.pdf format) must use the A4 IEEE Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings. Please remember to add Keywords to your submission. Submitted papers may be 6 to 8 pages including all figures and references. Overlength papers will be rejected without review. Paper submissions must conform with the “double-blind” review policy. This means that the authors should not know the names of the reviewers of their papers, and reviewers should not know the names of the authors. Please prepare your paper in a way that preserves anonymity of the authors. Papers submitted to MCNA must be the original work of the authors and they may not be simultaneously under review elsewhere. Publications that have been peer-reviewed and have appeared at other conferences or workshops may not be submitted to MCNA. Authors should be aware that IEEE has a strict policy with regard to plagiarism <a href="https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/plagiarism/plagiarism-faq.html</a> The authors' prior work must be cited appropriately. All papers that are accepted, registered, and presented in MCNA2023 and the workshops co-located with it will be submitted to IEEEXplore for possible publication.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Important Dates</font></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0in;margin-bottom:0in"><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="color:red"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Full paper submission: </font></span> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0);font-family:Oswald,sans-serif;font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(228,229,230)">April 21st, 2023 (Firm and Final)</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Full paper acceptance notification: May 6th, 2023</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Full paper camera-ready submission: May 20th, 2023</font></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:11.75pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For any inquiries, please contact: <a href="mailto:intelligenttechorg@gmail.com" target="_blank">intelligenttechorg@gmail.com</a>.<br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Best regards,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:13.91px"><font face="arial, sans-serif">MCNA organizing committee.</font></p></div>