BNI 2026

Deadlines
Multimedia/CORE Unranked

BNI 2026

Brave New Ideas

Nov 10 2026Rio de Janeiro, BrazilOfficial conference site Site reachable

ACM Multimedia 2026 is the premier international conference in multimedia research, focusing on technologies that integrate multiple digital modalities such as images, text, video, audio, and sensor data. The Brave New Ideas (BNI) Track specifically welcomes novel, exploratory visions and conceptual contributions that challenge or expand current research directions in multimedia, with an emphasis on originality and impact over empirical performance.

Official CFP Back to deadlines Verified September 9, 2026

Paper fit

Contribution paths

A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.

Brave New Ideas (BNI) Papers

6–8 page papers presenting novel, exploratory solutions, new research visions, or fresh perspectives on existing problems in multimedia, with emphasis on conceptual leap and impact rather than state-of-the-art performance; may include proof-of-concept but not required to outperform baselines.

Regular Full Papers

6–8 page papers (plus up to 2 reference pages) presenting novel theoretical or algorithmic solutions to multimedia problems, requiring empirical results and state-of-the-art comparisons.

Research areas in scope

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Core Multimedia Topics

Art and CultureData Systems Management and IndexingEmbodied and Immersive MultimediaEmotional and Social SignalsInteractions and Quality of ExperienceMultimedia ApplicationsMultimodal FusionMultimedia Generative and Foundation ModelsMultimedia Interpretability and ExplainabilityMultimedia and LanguageMultimedia Search and RecommendationMultimedia ReasoningNew Forms of Media ContentResponsible MultimediaSummarization, Analytics, and StorytellingTransport and DeliveryMultimedia/multimodality

Policies worth checking twice

  • Submissions must be 6–8 pages in length, with up to 2 additional pages for references only.
  • Papers must follow double-blind review guidelines: no author names, affiliations, or identifying information in the submission.
  • Dual submission to any ACM Multimedia track (BNI, Regular Paper, Datasets) or any other venue during the review period is prohibited and results in desk rejection.
  • Authors are limited to 10 submissions total across all tracks (BNI, Regular Paper, Datasets); 11th and subsequent submissions are desk-rejected.
  • Author lists cannot be changed after the abstract submission deadline; only typos may be corrected.
  • Paper titles must remain unchanged between submission and camera-ready version.
  • Supplementary material must be uploaded separately and cannot exceed 50MB; no appendixes allowed in the main paper.
  • All authors must have complete and accurate OpenReview profiles with institutional affiliations; incomplete profiles lead to desk rejection.

Official sources

Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.

Official conference sitehttps://2026.acmmm.org/site/cfp-guidelines.htmlhttps://2026.acmmm.org/site/author-instructions.htmlhttps://2026.acmmm.org/site/author-advocate-mediation.html

Last verified September 9, 2026