One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on Multimodal Large Models: Bridging Vision, Language, and Beyond

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Chairs: Jian Hu (Queen Mary, University of London), Prof Jun Liu (Lancaster University), Dr Ziquan Liu (Queen Mary, University of London) , Dr Wei Zhou (Cardiff University)

Queries? contact the Meeting's Organiser Andrew Gilbert here

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Dima Damen, University of Bristol and Google DeepMind
• Dr. Xiatian Zhu, University of Surrey
• Prof. Niloy Mitra, University College London

Call for Presentations

We are excited to invite researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to participate in a one-day symposium focused on Multimodal Learning. This event aims to bring together diverse voices working on the next generation of intelligent systems that integrate vision, language, audio, and other modalities. We welcome submissions spanning early-stage ideas, in-progress studies, and previously published work that align with the symposium’s theme.

This workshop will explore how models can learn from and reason across different modalities to achieve richer semantic understanding, robust generalisation, and responsible deployment. We especially encourage contributions that push the boundaries of current multimodal systems, both in theoretical foundations and real-world applications.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Multimodal representation learning and fusion
• Reasoning in vision-language and video-language models
• Multimodal generation and synthesis (e.g. captioning, text-to-image, visual storytelling)
• Reasoning-aware generation (e.g. chain-of-thought guided generation across modalities)
• Temporal and spatial grounding in multimodal data
• Prompting strategies and instruction tuning for multimodal LLMs
• Generalisation and robustness in multimodal understanding
• Dataset design and evaluation protocols for multimodal learning
• Self-supervised, semi-supervised, and weakly supervised multimodal learning
• Efficient alignment across modalities (e.g. vision-text, audio-text)
• Applications of multimodal learning in robotics, education, healthcare, and creative industries
• Multimodal agents and embodied interaction
• Interpretability and failure analysis in complex multimodal systems
• Ethical considerations in multimodal learning and generation
• Robustness, safety, and trustworthiness of multimodal systems
• Mitigating bias and harmful outputs in multimodal foundation models

Not sure if your topic fits? Feel free to reach out to the organisers—we’re happy to advise.

Presentation Formats:

• Posters
• Demos
• Talks

Demos will be displayed alongside posters during the day and can take the form of interactive experiences or visualisations. You can submit your presentation proposal using the form below.

Important: This is an in-person event held at the British Computer Society, with no virtual presentation option. We kindly ask all presenters to join us on-site.

We look forward to seeing your work!

Presentations can be either published work, or ongoing research.

The deadline for submitting a presentation is the 17th September 2025

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place at:

British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP

Registration

We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows

• All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day