Conference Programme

Please note that this program is tentative and subject to change
Tuesday 8th December 2026
08:30 Registration Opens
09:30 Welcome
Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera University of York
09:40 Session #1: Post-Production and Viewer Experience
Chair: Giuseppe Claudio Guarnera
  • Unmixing Mixed-Illuminant Scenes: Non-Negative Illuminant-Field Decomposition for Interactive Editing
    Bold-Erdene Ganbaatar, Francois Pitie, Daniele Siragusano, Julius Tschannerl
  • SERO: Semantic Prediction for Single-Step Object Removal
    Amreen Hasheem Siraj, Alireza Javanmardi, Pragati Jaiswal, Didier Stricker, Alain Pagani
  • Pre-filtered Frame-Difference Features for Temporal Monte Carlo Denoising
    Dmitri Ginzburg
  • Enhancing Depth in S3D Images and VR
    Lucy Chen, Lesley Istead
  • Generated Brain Rot: A Study on Generative AI in Short Viral Videos
    Lesley Istead, Sarah Al-Attraqchi, David Plata Ramirez
10:55 Coffee Break and Sponsor Demos
11:30 Keynote #1: The Beauty of Imperfection: Human Craft in the Age of AI
Victor Perez Visual Effects Supervisor
12:20 Spotlight Session - Short Papers and Demos
Posters and demos for this day to be listed soon.
12:35 Posters, Demos and Lunch
13:45 Sponsor Talk by Adobe
John Collomosse Adobe Research
14:05 Sponsor Talk (to be announced)
14:25 Session #2: Building the World
Chair: Violeta Menéndez González
  • Froxels for Production: Ray-Level Inspection and Consensus-Guided Light-Field Rendering
    Chuanbeibei Shi, Robin Kremer, Thorsten Herfet
  • Radial-Temporal Factorization for Compact 4D Gaussian Splatting
    Mohamed Abdul Gafoor, Marius Preda, Titus Zaharia
  • From Geometry to Typology: Counterfactual Editability for Ancient Architecture 3D Reconstruction and Generation
    Xue Mi, Jian Chang, Ran Ran, Jian Jun Zhang
  • Preserve What Is Seen, Complete What Is Not: Completion-Aware Output-Space Adaptation for Image-to-Panorama Generation
    Jungwoon Kang, Jongyoo Kim
15:25 Coffee Break (Posters and Demos continue)
15:55 Production Keynote: Project Hail Mary: A VFX Journey
Stuart Penn Framestore
16:45 CVMP Technical Awards
Jeff Clifford
17:00 Networking Reception
19:00 Networking Dinner (Ticket required) at Auberge, 1 Sandell Street
Wednesday 9th December 2026
09:00 Registration Opens
09:30 Session #3: Digital Humans and Performance
  • SAGE: Semantic-Aware Gesture gEneration from Multi-modal Encoders
    Fahad Ahmad, Anna Hilsmann, Peter Eisert
  • Tri-DNO: Trilateral Diffusion Noise Optimization for 3D Human Object Interaction
    Paul Hinzer, Peter Eisert, Anna Hilsmann, Niklas Gard
  • Sparse Capture, Dense Relighting: Robust Human Reflectance Estimation from RGBW OLAT Sequences
    Jaekyung Kim, Hyunse Yoon, Jeonghaeng Lee, Mingyu Jang, Seonghwa Choi, Sanghoon Lee
  • Edit3DMM: An Editing-First Approach to Modelling 3D Faces
    Avirup Dey, Deblina Bhattacharjee, Vinay Namboodiri
10:30 Coffee Break and Sponsor Demos
11:00 Keynote #2: Neurosymbolic Structure for Controllable Visual Media
Niloy Mitra University College London and Adobe Research
11:50 Spotlight Session - Short Papers and Demos
Posters and demos for this day to be listed soon.
12:05 Posters, Demos and Lunch
13:10 Session #4: Industry Session
Chair: Oliver Grau
14:50 Coffee Break (Posters and Demos continue)
15:15 Sponsor Talk by XGRIDS
Oliver Huang XGRIDS
15:35 Sponsor Talk (to be announced)
15:55 Keynote #3: Simulating the Stack
Robin Kahlow Runway
16:45 Closing, Best Paper Awards and Rabin Ezra Scholarship Trust Prizes
Robert Dawes BBC Research & Development