Submission Guideline

Special Session 1: Frontiers in Intelligent Multimodal Computing for Cross-Domain Challenges

The field of Intelligent Multimodal Computing is rapidly evolving, moving beyond simple information fusion towards deep, cross-modal understanding and generation. This special session aims to showcase the latest frontiers and groundbreaking research in intelligent multimodal computing for tackling cross-domain challenges. We seek to explore novel methodologies and frameworks that enable models to generalize, adapt, and reason across diverse domains and data modalities, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in integrated understanding and generation. We particularly encourage submissions that not only demonstrate technical novelty but also illustrate their impact in real-world scenarios. Discussions are also welcomed on broader implications, including aspects of trustworthy AI such as fairness, interpretability, robustness, and societal impact.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Multimodal Foundation Models and Cognitive Reasoning
Cross-Modal Alignment and Generative Foundations
Multimodal Learning for Ecological Monitoring and Environmental Science
Multimodal AI for Public Security and Urban Governance
Multimodal Computing for Digital Heritage and Cultural Innovation
Multimodal Modeling and Analysis for Healthcare and Biomedicine
Embodied Multimodal AI for Autonomous Systems and Robotics

 

Organizer:

Prof. Ying Liu

Center for Image and Information Processing，Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, Xi'an, China.
Center for Visual Computing in Plateau Ecological Integrity (CVCPEI), Qinghai Institute of Technology, Xining, China

Dr. Ying Liu is currently a full professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications (XUPT), China. She also serves as the director of Center for Image and Information Processing(CIIP) in XUPT, and director of Center for Visual Computing in Plateau Ecological Integrity (CVCPEI) in Qinghai Institute of Technology(QIT). She received the B.E. degree in School of Information Engineering from Xidian University, China, M.Eng in school of Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, and Ph.D. in School of Computing and Information Technology from Monash University, Australia. Before joining XUPT in 2011, she once worked as a researcher in Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and then a lecturer in Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. Dr. Liu is a senior member of IEEE, as well as member of ACM and CCF,China. She has been involved in the organization of a list of international conferences/workshops, grand challenges in recent years. Her research activities focus on image understanding and classification. She once received best paper award and most cited paper certificate from Elsevier Pattern Recognition.  

Co-Organizer:

Prof. Zhijie Xu
Center for Cognitive Intelligence and Affective Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China

Dr. Zhijie Xu has been serving as the Head of the Department of Computing and Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University since September 2024. He previously held the position of Tenured Professor at the University of Huddersfield’s School of Computing and Engineering, where he was also the Director of the Centre for Visual and Immersive Computing and the Director of the Graduate School. Since beginning his teaching career in 1999, he has supervised 18 PhD students and completed more than twenty academic and engineering projects. Dr. Xu’s primary research interests include computer graphics and imaging, visual systems, digital twins, edge computing, and information visualization technologies. Since 1996, he has published over 200 papers, authored 5 books, and held 11 patents. Dr. Xu has served as the Chairman of the Chinese Automation and Computing Society in the UK and is an editorial board member and invited reviewer for numerous academic journals. He is also a senior member of several prestigious academic organizations, such as IEEE, IET, BCS, and HEA. In addition, he led the 2018 Ministry of Education Chunhui Plan UK Expert Group to China and served as an expert judge for the Manchester area of the Chunhui Cup Chinese Exchange Students Entrepreneurship Competition from 2017 to 2019. Through long-term scientific research cooperation with universities in China, he was selected for the Sichuan Province Thousand Talents Plan in 2017 and received the Second Prize of Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award in 2021.