<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">CALL FOR PAPERS</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">18th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">New Submission Deadline: March 08, 2021 </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" href="http://www.sigmap.org " rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.sigmap.org </a>;</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">July 06 - 08, 2021 </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Online Streaming </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Due to many requests, the regular papers submission deadline of this conference has been extended.</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">The purpose of SIGMAP 2021, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">SIGMAP is organized in 6 major tracks:</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">1 - Multimedia Networking and Communication</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">2 - Multimedia Signal Processing</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">3 - Multimedia Systems and Applications</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">4 - Multimedia and Deep Learning</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">5 - Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">6 - Social Multimedia</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Conference Chair(s)</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Program Chair(s)</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right: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will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Kind regards,</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Mónica Saramago</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">SIGMAP Secretariat</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;"> </p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Address: Av. S. Francisco Xavier Lote 7 Cv. C, Setubal 2900-616, Portugal</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Tel: +351 265 520 185</p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">Web: <a fr-original-style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" href="http://www.sigmap.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.sigmap.org</a></p><p fr-original-style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:107%;font-size:15px;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 107%; font-size: 15px; font-family: "Calibri", sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box;">e-mail: sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org</p><div fr-original-style=""><br fr-original-style=""></div></div>