Aims and scope

Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) publishes high-quality original research articles, surveys, technical reports, and case studies that advance the theory, design, implementation, and applications of multimedia systems and technologies.

Since its establishment as one of the pioneering journals in multimedia, MTAP has provided an international forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry experts working on the acquisition, processing, analysis, transmission, management, retrieval, security, and intelligent understanding of multimedia content.

The journal welcomes contributions addressing all aspects of multimedia, including images, video, audio, speech, music, graphics, extended reality, digital games, 3D content, multimodal data, sensor data, digital twins, and emerging immersive media. Particular emphasis is placed on recent advances driven by artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, foundation models, multimodal large language models, computer vision, intelligent agents, and human-centered multimedia systems.

MTAP encourages interdisciplinary research spanning multimedia computing, communication networks, cloud-edge infrastructures, healthcare, education, smart cities, autonomous systems, robotics, entertainment, metaverse technologies, and other emerging applications. The journal serves as a platform for innovative solutions that bridge multimedia technologies with real-world societal and industrial challenges.