The use of immersive media (e.g., point clouds, light fields, meshes, etc) enables mixing the physical and virtual world to create an unprecedented experience for applications like AR/VR (augmented/virtual reality), Digital Twin and the Metaverse. To make these applications feasible over current and future communication networks and maximize user experience, efficient compression of immersive media is essential. In addition to traditional rules-based compression methods explored in the past decades, in recent years deep learning has been applied to multimedia coding, yielding impressive coding gains in some cases. Furthermore, international standardization organizations like MPEG and JPEG are actively pushing the standardization of novel coding solutions for immersive content. Without doubt, this will be the future frontier for new media systems and services. However, technological barriers and challenges need to be overcome in developing the best solutions and standards.

This ICME workshop on Immersive Media Compression aims at bringing forward recent advances related to compression technologies for light fields, point clouds, meshes, etc. The goal is to gather researchers with diverse and interdisciplinary backgrounds to cover a variety of aspects related to compression (e.g., acquisition, processing, quality measurement, optimization, etc.), to efficiently develop Immersive Media Compression systems and technologies.