Conference Programme

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Wednesday 3rd December 2025
09:00 Registration Opens
09:30 Welcome
Hansung Kim University of Southampton
09:40 Session #1: Image Enhancement & Material Rendering
Chair: Hansung Kim
  • Multi Task Denoiser Training for Solving Linear Inverse Problems
    Clement Bled, Francois Pitie
  • Towards Consistent Automatic Colour Grading: A Scene-Aware Neural Network for Illuminant Estimation
    Bold-Erdene Ganbaatar, Francois Pitie
  • ReTiDe: Real-Time Denoising for Energy-Efficient Motion Picture Processing with FPGAs
    Changhong Li, Clément Bled, Rosa Fernandez, Shreejith Shanker
  • Capturing the Complexity of Spatially Varying Surfaces with Adaptive Parameterization and Distribution Metrics
    Jessica Baron-Lis, Krzysztof Baron-Lis, Eric Patterson
  • Multi-Fidelity Optimization for Inverse Material Rendering
    Victor Stenvers, Peter Vangorp
10:55 Coffee Break
11:20 Keynote #1: Sketch-based Interfaces for Democratising AI-Powered Creative Tools
Yi-Zhe Song University of Surrey
12:20 Spotlight Session - Short Papers and Demos
  • Posters:
  • From Archiving to Activation: A Methodological Pipeline for Cultural Heritage Visualisation
    Evgeny Kalachikhin, Martin Gordon, Sophie Tummescheit, Bjoern Stockleben (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
  • Clonoxels: Exploiting Repetitive Structures for Efficient View Synthesis
    Oliver Camilleri (University of Surrey)
  • When Edges Matter: Automating De-Spill for Cleaner Chroma Keys
    Matthew Skonicki, Nicoletta Adamo (Tower 33 | VFX Studio and Purdue University)
  • A Counterexample Attack on Class-wise Data Watermarking
    Hui Yu Lau, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, Hansung Kim (University of Southampton)
  • Language-guided Video Summarization with Recursive Spatiotemporal Graph Modeling
    Jungin Park, Kwanghoon Sohn (Yonsei University)
  • Scaled Momentum Guidance for Flow Models
    Jinseong Kim, Jongyoo Kim (Yonsei University)
  • Sprite Sheet Generation using a Diffusion Model
    Hei Lit Wong, Marco Volino (University of Surrey)
  • Powering Kollani: Distributed Infrastructure for Real-Time Collaborative 3D Asset Reviews in Distributed Teams
    Francesco Andreussi, Claudio Hickstein, Martin Minsel (RnDeep GmbH)
  • Temporal denoising of 3D reconstructed hand pose sequences
    Fredrik Malmberg, Jonas Beskow (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
  • Demos:
  • Beepy Veepy: An open-source portable Virtual Production system for field use
    Graeme Phillipson, Hell Raymond-Hayling (BBC Research & Development)
  • Kollani: A Distributed Asset Reviewing Tool for Digital Teams
    Francesco Andreussi, Claudio Hickstein, Martin Minsel (RnDeep GmbH)
  • Demonstrating SAIReco's Video Analysis Studio for Accessible Media Creation
    Asmar Nadeem, Mahrukh Awan, Armin Mustafa (SAIReco Ltd.)
  • Decentralized Creative Copyright Exchange in the Age of Generative AI
    Junaid Awan, Kar Balan, John Collomosse (University of Surrey)
12:40 Posters, Demos and Lunch
13:45 Sponsor Talk by Microsoft
Title to be announced
14:00 Session #2: Gaussian Splatting
  • GS-Morph: Dynamic Novel View Synthesis via UDF-ARAP Gaussian Splat Morphing
    David Stéphane Belemkoabga, Thomas Maugey, Christine Guillemot
  • Optimized 3D Gaussian Splatting using Coarse-to-Fine Image Frequency Modulation
    Umar Farooq, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Graham Thomas, Adrian Hilton, Marco Volino
  • Dual Spherical Harmonics for 3D Gaussian Splatting: Novel View Synthesis with Dynamic Lighting
    Alp Orgun, Marco Volino, Jean-Yves Guillemaut, Adrian Hilton
  • A Fast Volumetric Capture and Reconstruction Pipeline for Dynamic Point Clouds and Gaussian Splats
    Athanasios Charisoudis, Simone Croci, Kit Yung Lam, Pascal Frossard, Aljosa Smolic
15:00 Coffee Break (Posters and Demos continue)
15:30 Keynote #2: Unleashing Immersive Spaces by Capturing, Reconstructing, and Rendering Reality
Christian Richardt Meta Reality Labs
16:30 CVMP Awards
Jeff Clifford
16:45 Networking Reception
18:30 Networking Dinner (Ticket required - ÂŁ50)
Thursday 4th December 2025
09:00 Registration Opens
09:30 Session #3: Virtual Humans
Chair: Claudio Guarnera
  • Neural Implicit Avatar Conditioned on Human Pose, Identity and Gender
    Guillaume Loranchet, Pierre Hellier, Adnane Boukhayma, Joao Regateiro, Franck Multon
  • Realistic Clothed Human and Object Joint Reconstruction from a Single Image
    Ayushi Dutta, Marco Pesavento, Marco Volino, Adrian Hilton, Armin Mustafa
  • Hi-RQCT: Hierarchical Residual-Quantized Causal Transformer for High-Quality 3D Human Motion Generation
    Dongjie Fu, Tengjiao Sun, Pengcheng Fang, Yiyang Zhang, Hansung Kim
  • 3D-Aware Latent-Space Reenactment: Combining Expression Transfer and Semantic Editing
    Paul Hinzer, Florian Barthel, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Keynote #3: Geometry First: Structured Representations for Generating 3D in a Large-Data World
Angela Dai Technical University of Munich
12:00 Spotlight Session - Short Papers and Demos
  • Posters:
  • A Video Processing Pipeline for Automatic Gesture and Prosody Annotation
    Szymon Lisowski (University of Southampton), Anna Wilson (University of Oxford), Fabio Pizzati (Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence), Elinor Payne, Philip Torr (University of Oxford), Hansung Kim (University of Southampton)
  • SANDFISH: Smart ANomaly Detection for Filming Interesting Species and Habitats
    Jack Alston, Robert Dawes (BBC Research & Development)
  • Audio Visual Instance Segmentation for Video Editing
    Jinbae Seo, Seungho Baek, Kwanghoon Sohn (Yonsei University)
  • Image-based Facial Rig Inversion
    Tianxiang Yang (University of Surrey and Humain Ltd.), Marco Volino, Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey), Greg Maguire, Robert Kosk (Humain Ltd.)
  • Finding the pattern between Emotions and Genre Classification in Films
    Ines N. Teixeira, Paula Viana, Maria Teresa Andrade (University of Porto)
  • TemporalMamba: A Novel Video Super-Resolution Framework with Temporal State Space Models and Frequency-Domain Fusion
    Simin Mirzaei, Panos Nasiopoulos, Shahriar Mirabbasi (University of British Columbia)
  • Enabling Local Multimodal AI for Metadata Generation in Archival Collections
    Minsak Nanang, Karyn Fleeting, Armin Mustafa (University of Surrey, The National Gallery, and British Film Institute)
  • IK-Based Full-Body and Facial Capture for Stylized 2D Puppets for Real-Time or Linear Pipelines
    Meghdad Asadilari (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  • Monochromatic Palette Space: A Low-Dimensional Manifold Model for Steerable Color Grading
    Jinwoo Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
  • Demos:
  • Virtual Scene Integration: Compositing and Relighting Greenscreen Performances
    James Gardner, William A. P. Smith, Will Rowan, Florian Block (pxld.ai and University of York)
  • IK-Based Full Body and Facial MoCap for Stylized 2D Puppets Using Accessible Tracking Devices
    Meghdad Asadilari (Rochester Institute of Technology)
  • Content Understanding for Personalised Media in AI4ME
    Davide Berghi, Asmar Nadeem, Tony Alex, Armin Mustafa, Graham Thomas, Philip J. B. Jackson, Adrian Hilton (University of Surrey), Robert Dawes (British Broadcasting Corporation)
  • CoSTAR National Lab: Prototyping Emerging AI Technologies for Converged Media Production
    Violeta Menéndez González (CoSTAR National Lab and University of Surrey), Hazel Dixon, Branden Faulls (CoSTAR National Lab and Royal Holloway University of London)
12:20 Posters, Demos and Lunch
13:40 Session #4: Industrial Session
Chair: Oliver Grau
  • 13:40-14:05: PBR Capture at scale for production & ML Datasets
    Elliott Round (CoFounder & CTO, M-XR)
  • 14:05-14:30: Evaluation of Depth-Based Volumetric Capture Methods in Production Environments
    Philip Coulam-Jones (Disguise)
  • 14:30-14:55: Videomatics for Technical Control and Creative Freedom in ICVFX Productions
    Adam Streicher, Lena Gieseke (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
  • 14:55-15:20: Stop fixing it in post - how innovation should be pushing VP to the next level
    Adam Smith (Executive Producer, Dimension)
15:20 Coffee Break (Posters and Demos continue)
15:50 Keynote #4: The Last Mile of Research for Production-Ready View-Synthesis
Peter Hedman Google DeepMind
16:50 Closing and Best Paper Awards
Claudio Guarnera University of York