ACM Mile-High Video (MHV) is a flagship industry-oriented technical conference in the area of video technologies, which has been successfully running in Denver, Colorado, starting from 2016. ACM MHV 2025 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 2025 will provide a unique opportunity to view the interplay of the industry and academia in the area of video technologies.

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

    Content production, encoding and packaging

        Encoding for broadcast, mobile and OTT, and using AI/ML in encoding
        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

    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 tools against piracy
        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 + references) that will be peer-reviewed by the ACM MHV technical program committee (TPC) for relevance, timeliness, and technical correctness.