2016 Eighth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QOMEX)

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Quality of Experience (QoE) Fundamentals: Understanding experience and quality; quality beyond MOS; quality, user satisfaction and acceptance; QoE factors, features and models; QoS versus QoE; lessons learned.
• Audio/Visual User Experience: Objective and subjective quality evaluation of speech, audio, image, video, multimedia; spatial/3D audio and stereo/multi- view/plenoptic visual quality; psycho-physical modelling; quality-centered processing, compression and transmission; perceptual optimization.
• QoE in Graphics & Rendering: (Non-)photorealistic rendering; special effects; virtual/augmented/mixed realities, gaming.
• Sensory User Experiences: Quality of haptic systems, taste, smell and touch; methods for sensory user feedback; quality metrics for ambient and sensory experiences; novel sensory interfaces; multisensory interaction.
• QoE for Interactive and New Imaging Systems: New immersive systems; tele- conferencing/tele-presence; multimedia-based group interaction; multimedia Web search/browsing; panoramic, plenoptic and pathological imagery; holographic systems.
• QoE for Mobile Devices: Evaluating multimedia applications and interactive experiences on mobile devices; impact of viewing conditions and device properties; adaptive user interfaces, quality of second screen applications.
• QoE-centric Network and Application Management: Distributed and central management approaches; cloud-based multimedia services; adaptive media streaming; interoperability; performance optimization; pricing and service-level agreements.
• Affective Experiences: Measurement of affective responses to multimedia, both self-reported and physiological; emotion and mood computational models; empathic multimedia engineering.
• Aesthetic Experiences: QoE as feedback for content creation, art and perception; psychophysiological affective responses to multimedia; aesthetic appeal appreciation; computational aesthetics.
• QoE and Social Media: Quality of social media experiences; multimedia experience enhancement through social media; QoE factors and social media mining.
• Reproducible QoE Research: Multimedia databases/datasets; benchmarking and certification; testing conditions and methods; standardization efforts; open-source QoE tools.