Conference Programme

Tuesday 17th December

09:00	Registration opens with Coffee
09:30	Chair’s Welcome Will Smith (Conference Chair), University of York
09:40	Paper session 1: Art meets science Augmenting Hand-Drawn Art with Global Illumination Effects through Surface Inflation Matis Hudon (Trinity College Dublin), Sebastian Lutz (Trinity College Dublin), Rafael Pagés (Volograms), Aljosa Smolic (Trinity College Dublin) PaintsTorch: a User-Guided Anime Line Art Colorization Tool with Double Generator Conditional Adversarial Network Yliess Hati (Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci), Gregor Jouet (Adaltas), Clement Duhart (MIT Media Lab), Francis Rousseaux (URCA CReSTIC) Reproduction of Perspective in Cel Animation 2D Composition for Real-Time 3D Rendering Takeshi Okuya (Waseda University)
10:40	Industry Talk 1 IDS Suggestion Engine Matthew Carse (Image Data Systems)
11:00	Coffee Break Poster presenters put up posters
11:25	Keynote: Computational Imaging for Realistic Appearance Modelling Abhijeet Ghosh, Imperial College London
12:25	Spotlight Session 1 L2-based Colour Correction for Light Field Arrays Mairead Grogan (Trinity College Dublin), Aljosa Smolic (Trinity College Dublin) High-resolution BTF Capture for delicate Materials Gilles Rainer (University College London), Kevin Rathbone (Robotae Ltd), Tim Weyrich (University College London) Efficient and Realistic High Resolution Sky Replacement Tony Polichroniadis (Anthropics), Sara Vicente (Anthropics) Full-body Performance Capture of Sports from Multi-view Video Lewis Bridgeman (University of Surrey), Jean-Yves Guillemaut (University of Surrey), Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey) High Quality Facial Capture using Binary Spherical Gradient Illumination Alexandros Lattas (Imperial College London), Yuan Zhu (Imperial College London), Abhijeet Ghosh (Imperial College London) Approaching real-time Character Animation in Virtual Productions Jonas Trottnow (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH), Simon Spielmann (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH), David Moreno (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Javi Agenjo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Neurocreativity: Changing how we create visual content Chris Christodoulou (Saddington Baynes), James Digby-Jones (Saddington Baynes) Accelerating Handheld Object Pose Estimation on Smartphones in Unity with TensorFlow Lite Valentin Miu (Bournemouth University), Oleg Fryazinov (Bournemouth University) A virtual reality experience combining light-field video and computer graphics content Matthias Ziegler (Fraunhofer IIS), Joachim Keinert (Fraunhofer IIS) Interactive Storytelling Using 360-degree Video and Light Fields Florian Schweiger (BBC), Alia Sheikh (BBC), Andy Brown (BBC), Matthew Brooks (BBC), Paul Golds (BBC), Bruce Weir (BBC), Graham Thomas (BBC), Adam Cherbetji (Foundry), Niall Redmond (Foundry), Ana Mihut (Foundry), Louise Hastings (Foundry) Dungeon Escape: Implementation of Dichoptic Contrast Enhancement for VR Displays Fangcheng Zhong (University of Cambridge), Jonas Fiala (University of Cambridge), Rafal Mantiuk (Univ. Cambridge) Collaborative Previsualization in Virtual Reality Simon Alexanderson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Dui Ardal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
12:40	Lunch
13:10	Poster session 1/Demos (lunch continues)
13:55	Paper Session 2: Lights, camera, action! Grammar of VR Storytelling: Analysis of Perceptual Cues in VR Cinema Jayesh S. Pillai (IIT Bombay), Manvi Verma (UPES) A Collaborative Previsualization Tool for Filmmaking in Virtual Reality Dui Ardal (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Simon Alexanderson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Mirko Lempert (Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts), Andre Pereira (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Automated Composition of Picture-Synched Music Soundtracks for Movies Vansh Dassani (University of Bristol), Jon Bird (University of Bristol), Dave Cliff (University of Bristol)
14:55	Poster session 1/Demos continues (coffee served)
15:20	Special Session on Games Crossing the streams with video and games Oscar Clark (Fundamentally Games) Depth from single image for augmented reality Daniyar Turmukhambetov (Niantic Labs)
16:00	Keynote: A Year of Playing the World Johanna Pirker, Graz University of Technology
17:00	Networking Reception
18:30	Conference Dinner At BFI Bar & Kitchen (Benugo)

Wednesday 18th December

09:00	Registration opens with Coffee
09:30	Paper Session 3: Making a mesh of things Guided Deformation Transfer Prashant M Domadiya (DAIICT), Dr.Pratik Shah (IIIT Vadodara), Suman Mitra (DAIICT) Towards Globally Optimal full 3D reconstruction of scenes with complex reflectance using Helmholtz Stereopsis Gianmarco Addari (University of Surrey), Jean-Yves Guillemaut (University of Surrey) Progressive Non-rigid Registration of Temporal Mesh Sequences Wieland Morgenstern (Fraunhofer HHI), Anna Hilsmann (Fraunhofer HHI), Peter Eisert (Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute)
10:30	Industry Talk 2 Academy Software Foundation: Advancing Open Source Software Graham Jack (DNEG), Emily Olin (The Linux Foundation)
10:50	Coffee Break Poster presenters put up posters
11:15	Keynote: Behind the VFX of HBO's Emmy Award winning 'Chernobyl' Max Dennison, DNEG
12:15	Spotlight Session 2 Fast synthesis of atmospheric effects Miles Hansard (Queen Mary University of London) Simulated foveated depth-of-field blur for virtual reality systems Razeen Hussain (University of Genova), Fabio Solari (University of Genova), Manuela Chessa (University of Genova) Joint Estimation of Face and Camera Pose from a Collection of Images David Greenwood (UEA), Sarah Taylor (UEA), Iain Matthews (Carnegie Mellon University) 5D Light Field Video Capture Thorsten Herfet (Saarland Informatics Campus), Tobias Lange (Saarland Informatics Campus), Kelvin Chelli (Saarland Informatics Campus) A Differentiable CGA Shape Procedural System Victor Ceballos Inza (University of Bath), Yongliang Yang (University of Bath), Tom Kelly (University of Leeds) Joint Demosaicing and Chromatic Aberration Correction of Images Using Neural Networks Charles Malleson (University of Surrey), Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey) Face Reflectance and Geometry Modeling via Differentiable Ray Tracing Abdallah Dib (InterDigital), Gaurav Bharaj (Technicolor), Junghyun Ahn (Technicolor), Cedric Thebault (InterDigital), Philippe-Henri Gosselin (InterDigital), Louis Chevallier (InterDigital) Deep lens aberration correction Ljubomir Jovanov (Ghent University), Wilfried Philips (Ghent University) Scene Editing Using Synthesis of Three-Dimensional Virtual Worlds From Monocular Images of Urban Road Traffic Scenes Ankita Christine Victor (IIIT-Bangalore), Jaya Sreevalsan-Nair (IIIT-Bangalore) Deep 4D Shape Representation: Learning 4D Volumetric Video from Skeletal Motion Joao Regateiro (University of Surrey), Marco Volino (University of Surrey), Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey) Learning Human Reconstruction from Synthetic Dataset Akin Caliskan (University of Surrey), Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey), Imre Evren (Vicon), Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey)
12:30	Lunch
13:10	Poster session 2/Demos (lunch continues)
13:45	Paper session 4: Thinking deeply about content creation Respecting low-level components of content with skip connections and semantic information in image style transfer Minh-Man Ho (Hosei University), Jinjia Zhou (Hosei University), Yibo Fan (Fudan University) Depth estimation meets inverse rendering for single image novel view synthesis Ye Yu (University of York), William Smith (University of York) Realistic and Textured Terrain Generation using GANs Ryan Spick (University of York), James Walker (University of York)
14:45	Poster session 2/Demos continues (coffee served)
15:10	Industry talks 3 & 4 Light-field Post-production for Virtual Reality Applications Matthias Ziegler (Fraunhofer IIS), Joachim Keinert (Fraunhofer IIS) Picture Lock? Hence with it! - Workflow Optimization for Layout Stage in Animation Production Martin Minsel (RnDeep GmbH)
15:50	Keynote: The Artist’s Perspective: Storytelling in Spatial Computing Bruna Berford, Penrose Studios
16:50	Prizes, Announcements and Close
17:00	CVMP Closing Drinks Reception hosted by the CDE in the Blue Room