The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9314 and 9315 constitute the proceedings of the 16th
Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia PCM 2015 held in Gwangju South Korea in September
2015. The total of 138 full and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully
reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections
named: image and audio processing multimedia content analysis multimedia applications and
services video coding and processing multimedia representation learning visual understanding
and recognition on big data coding and reconstruction of multimedia data with spatial-temporal
information 3D image video processing and applications video image quality assessment and
processing social media computing human action recognition in social robotics and video
surveillance recent advances in image video processing new media representation and
transmission technologies for emerging UHD services.