Accepted special sessions:

1) Wei Gao, Ge Li, Peking University; Hui Yuan, Shandong University; Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University; Junhui Hou, City University of Hong Kong, "3D Point Cloud Acquisition, Processing and Communication (3DPC-APC)".

2) Wei Wu, Xidian University; Long Xu, Chinese Academy of Science, "Low level vision and signal recovery".

3) Tian Gan, Jianlong Wu, Shandong University; Kankanhalli Mohan, National University of Singapore, "Cross-media Retrieval, Recommendation, and Reasoning – CR3"

4) Lu Yu, Zhejiang University; Marius Preda, Telecom SudParis, "Immersive Visual Volumetric Content Representation and Compression".