ICMR 2027 — 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
by ACM SIGMM, hosted by Singapore Management University with 6ESTATES
ACM's multimedia retrieval conference — multimodal search and recommendation — in Singapore
About This Event
ICMR 2027, the 17th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, is held 7-10 June 2027 in Singapore, with Benoit Huet and Chong-Wah Ngo as general chairs. ICMR describes itself as the premier scientific conference for multimedia retrieval worldwide, covering image, video, audio and multimodal content analysis, search and recommendation, and it exists to bring researchers and practitioners together around high-quality papers and practitioner experience reports. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGMM and hosted locally by Singapore Management University with 6ESTATES. The series traces back to the inaugural 2011 edition in Trento, Italy, and rotates deliberately across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania. The 2027 website launched on 1 June 2026 and its call for contributions opened on 15 June 2026, with calls also open for workshops and for sponsorship.
At a Glance
- Date
- June 7–10, 2027
- Location
- Singapore
- Format
- In-Person
- Event Type
- Conference
- Status
- Upcoming
- Pricing
- Paid
- Organizer
- ACM SIGMM, hosted by Singapore Management University with 6ESTATES
- Added
- Aug 28, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 28, 2026
Topics & Focus Areas
Who Should Attend
- ✓Multimedia and information retrieval researchers
- ✓Machine learning engineers working on multimodal models
- ✓Search and recommendation engineers
- ✓Applied scientists in e-commerce, media and content moderation
- ✓Heads of AI platform and enterprise search
- ✓PhD students and postdocs
Why Attend
Multimodal retrieval is the machinery underneath enterprise search, retrieval-augmented generation over documents and video, product discovery and content moderation — and ICMR is the venue where the retrieval half of that stack gets evaluated rather than demoed. For a CTO or head of search, four days here answers which multimodal embedding and ranking approaches hold up under real benchmarks, where they fail on video and audio, and which research groups across Asia-Pacific are worth a partnership or a hire. Its Singapore edition also sits inside the region's densest cluster of applied AI engineering teams, which makes the corridor conversations as useful as the papers.
Event Features
- ✓Call for contributions (research papers), open since 15 June 2026
- ✓Call for workshops
- ✓Call for sponsorship
- ✓Scope spanning image, video, audio and multimodal content analysis
- ✓Search, retrieval and recommendation as the core programme
- ✓General chairs Benoit Huet and Chong-Wah Ngo
What Makes This Unique
- ★ACM SIGMM's dedicated retrieval conference — narrower and deeper than ACM Multimedia, centred on search, retrieval and recommendation rather than multimedia broadly.
- ★Hosted in Singapore by Singapore Management University with industry co-host 6ESTATES, putting it inside the Asia-Pacific concentration of applied multimodal AI teams.
- ★Continuous series since the inaugural 2011 edition in Trento, with a deliberate rotation across Asia, Europe, North America and Oceania.
- ★Calls opened unusually early — website live 1 June 2026 and call for contributions open from 15 June 2026, a full year ahead of the conference.
Industries Represented
Pricing Details
Not published. As of 28 August 2026 the ICMR 2027 site carries only its calls for contributions, workshops and sponsorship — registration is not open and no fees or pass tiers have been announced.
Organizer
ACM SIGMM, hosted by Singapore Management University with 6ESTATES
sigmm.org/Frequently Asked
- When is ICMR 2027?
- ICMR 2027 takes place June 7–10, 2027 in Singapore.
- Where is ICMR 2027 held?
- ICMR 2027 is held in Singapore. The event format is in-person.
- How much does ICMR 2027 cost?
- ICMR 2027 is paid. Not published. As of 28 August 2026 the ICMR 2027 site carries only its calls for contributions, workshops and sponsorship — registration is not open and no fees or pass tiers have been announced.
- Who should attend ICMR 2027?
- ICMR 2027 is aimed at Multimedia and information retrieval researchers, Machine learning engineers working on multimodal models, Search and recommendation engineers, Applied scientists in e-commerce, media and content moderation, Heads of AI platform and enterprise search, PhD students and postdocs.
- What topics does ICMR 2027 cover?
- ICMR 2027 covers Multimedia retrieval, Multimodal content analysis, Image retrieval, Video retrieval, Audio retrieval, Recommendation systems, Vision-language models, Search and ranking.
Sources
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