Conference Programme

Noted that this program is tentative and subject to change
Monday 18th November 2024
09:00 Registration opens
09:20 Welcome
Armin Mustafa University of Surrey
09:30 Session #1: 3D Capture and Novel View Synthesis
  • High-Quality Facial Geometry from Sparse Heterogeneous Devices under Active Illumination
    Lewis Bridgeman, Gilles Rainer, Abhijeet Ghosh
  • Enhanced Illumination Adjustment in 3D Outdoor Reconstructions via Shadow Removal through Color Transfer
    Herbert Potechius, Selvam Essaky, Gunasekaran Raja, Thomas Sikora, Sebastian Knorr
  • RegSegField: Mask-Regularization and Hierarchical Segmentation for Novel View Synthesis from Sparse Inputs
    Kai Gu, Thomas Maugey, Knorr Sebastian, Christine Guillemot
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote: TBD
Sarah Ellis, Royal Shakespeare Company
12:00 Spotlight Session-Short Papers and Demos
  • Overview over MAX-R demos
    Jonas Trottnow (Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg Gmbh)
  • A New Dataset for Multi-Camera Frame Synthesis
    Conall Daly (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Anil Kokaram (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
  • TRACER: Modular Open-Source Framework for Real-Time XR Collaboration
    Jonas Trottnow (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Simon Spielmann (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Simon Haag (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Francesco Andreussi (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH)
  • Detection and Re-Identification in the case of Horse Racing
    Will Binnings (University of Surrey) Sadegh Rahmaniboldaji (University of Surrey) Xu Dong (University of Surrey) Andrew Gilbert (University of Surrey)
  • ATRA: An Adaptive Tick Rate Algorithm for Efficient Collaboration in Virtual Reality
    William Naylor (University of Warwick) Alan Chalmers (University of Warwick) Kurt Debattista (University of Warwick, UK)
  • High Fidelity 3D Head Reconstruction with 2D Gaussian Splatting
    Anil Bas (Bournemouth University) Oleg Fryazinov (Bournemouth University) Xiaosong Yang (Bournemouth University) Callum Rex Reid (Visualskies Ltd)
  • Efficient Audio-Visual Fusion for Video Classification using Attend-Fusion
    Mahrukh Awan (University of Surrey) Asmar Nadeem (University of Surrey) Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey)
  • Synthesis of Realistic Tongue Movements for Speech Animation Using Gated Recurrent Units
    Jake G Mwangi-Powell (University of Surrey) Marco Volino (University of Surrey) Robert Kosk (Humain Studios) Neo Yang (University of Surrey)
  • MAX-R Demo: Digital Location
    Jonas Trottnow (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Simon Spielmann (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Volker Helzle (ANIMATIONSINSTITUT, FILMAKADEMIE, FMX) Alexandru-Sebastian Tufis-Schwartz (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH)
  • Advancements in Networked Pipelines for Virtual Production
    Philip Coulam-Jones (Disguise) Kenneth Leung (Disguise) Josh McNamee (Disguise)
  • EnVisualAIzer – Explorable AI-Generated Environments for All Filmmakers in Virtual Production
    Pauline Leininger (University of Television and Film Munich)
  • The Changing Forest: managing mass personalisation via audio-visual media flexibilities
    Craig Cieciura (University of Surrey) Maggie Kosek (University of Surrey) Elettra Bargiacchi (University of Surrey) Philip JB Jackson (University of Surrey)
12:20 Lunch, Posters and Demos
14:00 Session #2: Image Enhancement and Computational Photography
  • Optimal OLAT Alignment for Image-Based Relighting with Color-Multiplexed OLAT Sequence
    Arvin Lin, Abhijeet Ghosh
  • Image-Based Material Editing Using Perceptual Attributes or Ground-Truth Parameters
    Victor Stenvers, Peter Vangorp
  • Low-light Video Enhancement with Conditional Diffusion Models and Wavelet Interscale Attentions
    Ruirui Lin, Qi Sun, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
15:00 CVMP Awards
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Keynote: Understanding user behavior and attention in immersive environments
Ana Serrano, Universidad de Zaragoza
17:00 Networking Reception
Tuesday 19th November 2024
09:00 Registration opens
09:30 Session #3: Human Motion, Privacy and Usability
  • Multi-Resolution Generative Modeling of Human Motion from Limited Data
    David E Moreno-Villamarin, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
  • PDFed: Privacy-Preserving and Decentralized Asynchronous Federated Learning for Diffusion Models
    Kar Balan, Andrew Gilbert, John Collomosse
  • Interacting from Afar: A Study of the Relationship Between Usability and Presence in Object Selection at a Distance
    Kalila Shapiro, Pedro Quijada Leyton, Lloyd Stemple, David Uberti
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00Keynote: Foundations for 3D Digital Humans
Shunsuke Saito, Reality Labs Research, Meta
12:00 Spotlight Session-Short Papers and Demos
  • A Novel Motion Control Workflow for Capturing and Reproducing Realistic Lens Flares
    Vincent Maurer (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg)
  • 2D or not 2D: Live broadcasting into a game engine using a pseudo-3D approach
    Graham Thomas (BBC) Fiona Rivera (BBC)
  • Overcoming Spatial Limitations in Optical Motion Capture Using Nested Volumes
    Paulo Scatena (Independent Researcher)
  • Single-Image Coherent Reconstruction of Object and Human
    Sarthak Batra (University of Surrey) Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey)
  • A Preliminary Study on Real-Time Compositing for 2D Cel-Animation Production
    Takeshi Okuya (Waseda University) Brian Y Pascente (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
  • Efficient Multi-Scale 3D Gaussian Splatting
    Umar Farooq (University of Surrey)* Jean-Yves Guillemaut (University of Surrey) Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey) Marco Volino (University of Surrey)
  • MAX-R Demo: AnimHost
    Jonas Trottnow (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Simon Spielmann (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Volker Helzle (ANIMATIONSINSTITUT, FILMAKADEMIE, FMX) Francesco Andreussi (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH) Simon Haag (Filmakademie Baden-Würtemberg GmbH)
  • Demonstrating Causal-Temporal Narrative Video Captioning using NarrativeBridge
    Asmar Nadeem (University of Surrey) Mahrukh Awan (University of Surrey) Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey)
  • AI-Driven Real-Time Visualization of Music
    Jenny Huang (University of Television and Film Munich)
12:15 Lunch, Posters and Demos
13:45 Session #4: Industrial Session: Generative AI in Media Production
  • John Collomosse, Adobe/Surrey University
    Building Safe and Fair Generative AI with Content Provenance
  • Graham Jack, BeloFX
    AI In VFX: What works and what doesn't (yet)
  • Armen Avetisyan, Meta
    Modern 3D scene understanding with Project Aria Glasses. A step closer towards always-on sensing with AI wearables.
  • Graham Thomas, BBC R&D
    Generative AI and Public Service Media at the BBC
15:25 Coffee Break
15:50 Keynote: AI-based Volumetric Content Creation for Immersive XR Experiences and Production Workflows
Aljosa Smolic, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
16:50 Closing, Best Paper Awards
Hansung Kim, University of Southampton