Program

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Wednesday November 10th: [9:30am-12pm], [2pm-4:30pm]
Thursday November 11th: [9:45am-12:15pm], [3pm-5:15pm]
Friday November 12th: [2pm-4:45pm]

Wednesday November 10th

[9:30am-9:45am] Welcoming session

[9:45am-10:55am] 1-Virtual Reality Paper Session

Chair: Pujana Paliyawan

Ego-Interaction: Visual Hand-Object Pose Correction for VR Experiences
Catherine Taylor, Murray Evans, Eleanor Crellin, Martin Parsons, Darren Cosker
University of Bath

On Assessing the Impact of Mixed Reality Immersion on Presence and Embodiment
Alexandre Abbey, Thibault Porssut, Bruno Herbelin and Ronan Boulic
EPFL

VR Natural Walking in Impossible Spaces
Daniel Lochner, James Gain
University of Cape Town

(TVCG Paper) Performance Improvement and Skill Transfer in Table Tennis Through Training in Virtual Reality
Hawkar Oagaz, Breawn Schoun, Min-Hyung Choi
University of Colorado

[11:00am-12:00pm] Keynote Speaker – Caecilia Charbonnier

Chair: Karan Singh

Break

[2:00pm-3:25pm]2-Learning Paper Session

Chair: Eric Patterson

GarMatNet: A Learning-based Method for Predicting 3D Garment Mesh with Parameterized Materials
Zhen Luo, Tianxing Li and Takashi Kanai
The University of Tokyo

How to train your dog: Neural enhancement of quadruped animations
Donal Egan¹, George Fletcher², Yiguo Qiao², Darren Cosker² and Rachel McDonnell¹
¹Trinity College Dublin, ²University of Bath

Motor Babble: Morphology-Driven Coordinated Control of Articulated Characters
Avinash Ranganath, Avishek Biswas, Ioannis Karamouzas and Victor Zordan
Clemson University

PFPN: Continuous Control of Physically Simulated Characters using Particle Filtering Policy Network
Pei Xu and Ioannis Karamouzas
Clemson University

(TVCG Paper) Learning Task-Agnostic Action Spaces for Movement Optimization
Amin Babadi¹, Michiel Van de Panne², Caren Liu³, Perttu Hamalainen¹
¹Aalto University, ²University of British Columbia, ³Stanford University

[3:30pm-4:30pm] Keynote Speaker – Morgan McGuire

Chair: Damien Rohmer

Thursday November 11th

[9:45am-10:55am]3-Perception and appearance Paper Session

Chair: Eduard Zell

Interactive Viewpoint Exploration for Constructing View-Dependent Models
Tsukasa Fukusato and Akinobu Maejima
The University of Tokyo

Perception of Motion Variations in Large-Scale Virtual Human Crowds
Robin Adili, Benjamin Niay, Katja Zibrek, Anne-Hélène Olivier, Julien Pettré and Ludovic Hoyet
Inria, Univ. Rennes, IRISA

Emulating Foveated Path Tracing
Andreas Polychronakis¹, George Alex Koulieris² and Katerina Mania¹
¹Technical University of Crete, ²Durham University

Does Synthetic Voice alter Social Response to a Photorealistic Character in Virtual Reality?
Katja Zibrek¹, Joao Cabral² and Rachel McDonnell²
¹Inria, ²Trinity College Dublin

[11:00am-11:15am] Posters Fast Forward

Chair: Damien Rohmer

[11:15am-12:15pm] Posters Session

a. Towards computationally efficient VR agents

Magdalena Igras-Cybulska¹, Artur Cybulski², Radoslaw Sterna³, Marta Bartoszek³, Agnieszka Siry³
¹AGH University of Science and Technology, ²Upgrade, ³Jagiellonian University in Krakow

b. Democratization of real-time facial tracking frameworks for Digital Humans

Carlos L. Vilchis, Miguel Gonzalez Mendoza
Tecnologico de Monterrey

c. Physics-based character animation controllers for videogame and virtual reality production

Joan Llobera¹, Joe Booth, Caecilia Charbonnier¹
¹Artanim Foundation

d. A Laban movement approach to creating expressive motion in animated soft-body agents

Kumar Abishek, Rank Stefan
PerCubedLab, Drexel University

e. Adaptation of the Morris maze task to human beings using an eye-tracking virtual reality environment: first steps

Jesus Moreno, Juan Manuel Jurado, José Enrique Callejas-Aguilera, Roberto Jiménez
University of Jaen

f. May I sit next to you? The effect of motion quality of virtual agents on the proximity in virtual reality

Vincent Etien¹, Radoslaw Sterna², Ludovic Hoyet¹, Katja Zibrek¹
¹Inria Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique, ²Jagiellonian University in Krakow

g. Exploring the perception of quadruped motion retargeting

George Fletcher¹, Yiguo Qiao¹, Rebecca Fribourg², Jake Deane¹, Rachel McDonnel², Darren Cosker¹
¹The University of Bath, ²Trinity College Dublin

h. Simulation-based optimization approach for explicit forward gait prediction

Thomas Bonis¹, Nicolas Pronost¹, Gilmar F. Santos², Christof Hurschler², Saida Bouakaz¹
¹Université de Lyon, ²Hannover Medical School

i. Toward Fatigue Modeling for Locomotion Tasks

Rui Xu¹, Noshaba Cheema^1,2, Erik Herrmann¹, Perttu Hamalainen³, Philipp Slusallek¹
¹DFKI and Saarlan Informatics Campus, ²Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, ³Aalto University

j. Toward a Minecraft Mod for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease in Young Adults

Satoko Ito, Ruck Thawonmas, Pujana Paliyawan
Ritsumeikan University

k. Modeling the “Gorilla Arm” Effect with Reinforcement Learning

Noshaba Cheema¹, Laura A. Frey-Law², Kourosh Naderi³, Jaakko Lehtinen⁴, Philipp Slusallek¹, Perttu Hamalainen³
¹Max-Planck Institute for Informatics and DFKI, ²University of Iowa Health Care, ³Aalto University, ⁴NVIDIA Research

Break

[3:00pm-4:00pm]Keynote Speaker – Markus Gross

Chair: Ronan Boulic

[4:05pm-5:15pm]4- Physics Paper Session

Chair: Ben Jones

A Constraint-based Formulation of Incompressible Neo-Hookean Materials
Miles Macklin and Matthias Muller
NVIDIA

ESPEFs: Exponential Spring Potential Energy Functions for Simulating Deformable Objects
Ozan Cetinaslan
Universidade do Porto

QLB: Collision-Aware Quasi-Newton Solver with Cholesky and L-BFGS for Nonlinear Time Integration
Bethany Witemeyer, Nicholas J. Weidner, Timothy A. Davis, Theodore Kim and Shinjiro Sueda
Texas A&M University

Catching and Throwing Control of a Physically Simulated Hand
Yunhao Luo¹, Kaixiang Xie¹, Sheldon Andrews² and Paul Kry¹
¹McGill University, ²Ecole de technologie supérieure Montreal

Friday November 12th

[2:00pm-3:10pm]5- Crowd and Navigation Paper Session

Chair: Nuria Pelechano

PSM: Parametric Saliency Maps for Autonomous Pedestrians
Melissa Kremer¹, Peter Caruana¹, Brandon Haworth², Mubbasir Kapadia³ and Petros Faloutsos^1,4
¹York University, ²University of Victoria, ³Rutgers University, ⁴KITE/TRI/UHN

A2X: An Agent and Environment Interaction Benchmark for Multimodal Human Trajectory Prediction
Samuel Sohn¹, Mihee Lee¹, Seonghyeon Moon¹, Gang Qiao¹, Muhammad Usman², Sejong Yoon³, Vladimir Pavlovic¹ and Mubbasir Kapadia¹
¹Rutgers University, ²York University, ³The College of New Jersey

SNAP:Successor Entropy based Incremental Subgoal Discovery for Adaptive Navigation
Rohit K. Dubey¹, Samuel S. Sohn², Jimmy Abualdenien¹, Tyler Thrash³, Christoph Hoelscher⁴, Andre Borrmann¹ and Mubbasir Kapadia²
¹Technical University of Munich, ²Rutgers University, ³Saint Louis University, ⁴ETH Zurich

Interactive Simulation of Disease Contagion in Dynamic Crowds
Alon Flor, Chengguizi Han, Tao Xue and Mridul Aanjaneya
Rutgers University

[3:15pm-4:15pm]Keynote Speaker – Ryan Schmidt

Chair: Ludovic Hoyet

Wednesday November 10th

[9:30am-9:45am] Welcoming session

[9:45am-10:55am] 1-Virtual Reality Paper Session

[11:00am-12:00pm] Keynote Speaker – Caecilia Charbonnier

Break

[2:00pm-3:25pm]2-Learning Paper Session

[3:30pm-4:30pm] Keynote Speaker – Morgan McGuire

Thursday November 11th

[9:45am-10:55am]3-Perception and appearance Paper Session

[11:00am-11:15am] Posters Fast Forward

[11:15am-12:15pm] Posters Session

Break

[3:00pm-4:00pm]Keynote Speaker – Markus Gross

[4:05pm-5:15pm]4- Physics Paper Session

Friday November 12th

[2:00pm-3:10pm]5- Crowd and Navigation Paper Session

[3:15pm-4:15pm]Keynote Speaker – Ryan Schmidt

[4:15pm-4:45pm]Wrap-up and Awards

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