The Eighth International Workshop on Image Media Quality and its Applications (IMQA 2016) is a forum for leading researchers and developers from industry and academia to discuss state-of-the-art and novel image media quality technologies, theories, methods, and applications of quality metrics in industry.

Topics of interest for submissions from a point of 'Image Quality' include, but are not limited to:

• Hardware and Systems:
  • Image Capture Devices, Image Capture System, 3Dimage Input, Intelligent Sensor
  • Transcoder, Scalable Coding, QoS Control and Scheduling, IP Video/Web Conferencing, Wireless Video Phone, Distance Learning over the Internet, Telemedicine
  • Digital Terrestrial and Satellite Broadcasting System, Two-way Communication, 3DTV, Super-High-Definition TV, Display, Display System, 3D-Display, Holograph, Hard Copy
  • Human-Machine Interface System, Welfare System
• Software and Algorithms:
  • Image Reproduction/Restoration/Archive, CG, CV, Animation, VR
  • Medical Imaging
  • Coding (from JPEG to H.265/HEVC)
  • Multimedia Database
• Human Perception:
  • Human Perception, Psychophysics, Color Reproduction, Sensibility Information
  • Assessment Test Methodology (e.g., SSCQE), Objective Quality Metric
  • Security (Data Hiding, Watermarking, Individual Identification)
  • Synergistic Effect of Image and Sound