Call for Contributions| ACM Mile-High Video 2025

Call for Speakers

ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) is a flagship, industry-oriented technical conference in the area of video technologies, which has been successfully held in Denver, Colorado, since 2016. ACM MHV’26 welcomes contributions from both industry and academia to share real-world problems and solutions, as well as novel approaches and innovations from content production to consumption. ACM MHV’26 will provide a unique opportunity to explore the interplay between industry and academia in the field of video technologies.

ACM MHV’26 contributions are solicited in, but not limited to the following areas:

Content production, encoding, and packaging

Encoding for broadcast, mobile, and OTT;
New and emerging audio, image, and video codecs (incl. point cloud coding, light field coding, holography coding, etc.);
Edge, network, and cloud-based coding;
Perceptually optimized objective quality metrics;
Quality assessment models and tools, and user experience studies;
Storage applications for video processing and streaming;
Accessibility;
HDR.

Applications of AI

GenAI-based video content generation;
End-to-end and hybrid AI-based image and video compression;
Applications of AI in traditional video and audio encoding.

Video workflows

Virtualized headends, cloud-based workflows for production and distribution;
Redundancy and resilience in content origination;
Ingest protocols;
Ad insertion.

Content delivery and security

Developments in transport protocols and new delivery paradigms;
Protection for OTT distribution and anti-piracy tools;
Analytics.

Streaming technologies

Adaptive streaming and transcoding;
Low latency;
Player, playback, and QoE developments;
Content discovery, promotion, and recommendation systems;
Protocol and Web API improvements and innovations for streaming video.

Industry trends

3D/XR video (NeRF, Gaussian splatting, etc.);
Scalable and multi-view video coding deployments;
Video and audio coding for machines;
Cloud gaming and gaming streaming;
Provenance, content authentication, and deepfakes;
Energy management in video compression and streaming;
Edge computing tools and applications;
Hardware for content encoding, storage, and distribution.

Standards and interoperability

New and developing standards in the media and delivery space;
Interoperability guidelines.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit an extended abstract (one page, ~400 words + a list of references that can be provided on an additional page), which will be peer-reviewed by the technical program committee (TPC) for relevance, timeliness, and technical correctness.

The authors of the accepted extended abstracts will be invited to optionally submit a full-length paper (up to six pages + a list of references) for possible inclusion into the conference proceedings. These papers must be original work (i.e., not published previously in a journal or conference), and they will also be peer-reviewed by the TPC.

Accepted extended abstracts and full-length papers will be presented at the ACM MHV conference. Full-length papers will be published in the conference proceedings within the ACM Digital Library, and extended abstracts may be published as short papers, would their authors wish to do so.

All prospective ACM publication authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects.

How to Submit an Extended Abstract

Prospective authors are invited to submit one-page extended abstracts here.

Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline: Oct 19, 2025 AoE (a firm deadline)
Notification of abstract acceptance: Nov. 17, 2025 AoE
Optional: Full-length paper submission deadline: Dec. 1, 2025 AoE
Notification of full-length paper acceptance: Jan. 5, 2026 AoE
Camera-ready submission (extended abstracts/full-length papers) deadline: Jan. 12, 2026 AoE