Technical Program

8:45 – 9:00       Opening Speech

9:00-10:00        Keynote speech: Towards Immersive Interactive Media, Harlyn Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside

10:00-10:30      Coffee Break

10:30-12:00      Technical Session 1 – Immersive System Design

v  Optimizing Avatar Environmental Update in Shared Virtual Reality Environments, Ajay Chander, James Kempf, Manhee Jo

v  Agent-based Collaborative Affective E-learning System, Ben Ammar mohamed

v  Multimodal Cognitive System For Immersive User Interaction, Alessandro Calbi, Lucio Marcenaro, Alessio Dore, Carlo Regazzoni

12:00-14:00      Lunch (provided to your guest room)

14:00-15:30      Technical Session 2 – Technology for Immersive Applications

v  3D Watermarking Robust to Accessible Attacks, Mahsa Eshraghi , Faramarz Samavati

v  A Distributed Delivery Model for 3D-Video Streams, Goran Petrovic, Dirk Farin, Peter H.N. De With

v  Fast Stroke Matching by Angle Quantization, Luke Olsen, Faramarz Samavati, Mario Costa Sousa

15:30-16:00      Coffee Break

16:00-17:30      Technical Session 3 – Motion Capture for Immersive Applications

v  Immersive Performance Training Tools Using Motion Capture Technology, Howard Leung,  Jacky Chan , Kai Tai Tang , Taku Komura

v  Towards Modeling Human Arm Movement in a CVE, Fred EStakem, Fred Juang, Ghassan Alregib

v  Two gesture recognition systems for immersive math education of the Deaf, Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, Laura Arns, Justin Heisler

18:30-20:00      Reception

9:00-10:00         Keynote speech: Camera, Projector, and Microphone Arrays in Immersive Videoconferencing, Harlyn Baker, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

10:00-10:30      Coffee Break

10:30-12:30      Technical Session 4 – Networking for Immersive Applications

v  Uncompressed High Definition Visual Sharing System towards Interactive Networked Collaboration, Jinyong Jo, Ok-Hwan Byeon, JongKwon Chae, Minsun Lee, JongWon Kim

v  User and Network Interplay in Internet Telemicroscopy, Prasad Calyam, Mark Haffner Haffner, Nathan Howes Howes, Abdul Kalash

v  Dynamic Network Adaptation Scheme Employing Haptic Event Priority for Collaborative Virtual Environments, Seokhee Lee , JongWon Kim

v  Providing QoS for Distributed Haptic Virtual Environments in IP Networks, Kian Meng Yap, Alan Marshall, Wai Yu

12:30-13:30      Lunch (provided to your guest room)

13:30-15:00      Panel Session

15:00-15:30      Coffee Break

15:30-18:30      Sightseeing and tour of Verona

20:00-22:30      Conference Banquet

9:00-10:30         Technical Session 5 – Mobile Immersive Services

v  A Context Aware Platform for Mobility in Immersive Environment, Thomas Pavani, Davide Dardari, Fabio Marchesi, Andrea Conti, Oreste Andrisano

v  The VIL (Virtual Immersive Learning) Test-Bed, Amedeo Scarpiello, Gianluca Massei, Franco Davoli, Sandro Zappatore

v  Sensor Network Based Localization for Continuous Tracking Applications, Livio Denegri, Franco Davoli, Sandro Zappatore

10:30-11:00      Coffee Break

11:00-12:30      Technical Session 6 – Immersive Display Technologies

v  Effects of Depth Cues on Simulator Sickness, Manolya Kavakli, Nolwenn Bigoin, Iwan Kartiko , John Porte

v  Spontaneous Interaction on Context-Aware Public Display: An NFC and Infrared Sensor Approach, Gabriel Chavira, Salvador Nav, Jose Bravo, Ramon Hervas, Carlos Sanchez

v  HoloVizio 3D Display System, Zoltán Megyesi, Tibor Balogh, Péter Kovács

12:30-12:45      Closing Remarks

12:45-14:00      Lunch (provided to your guest room)