Book excerpt: The 6th International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS 18) is organized with the objective to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry sectors working in all facets of multimedia, telecommunication, and computer The conference will serve as a forum for the dissemination of state of the art research, development, implementation of multimedia systems, technologies, and applications The key objective of ICMCS 18 is to create a program that achieves a balance between theory and practice, academia and industry, systems tools oriented research and content creation