Detailed program
Monday June 17, 2024
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Workshop: Measuring & Modeling User Experiences in XR
09:00 – 12:00
Location: Building B, room 3.104 “Ateljén”
Lunch
12:20 – 13:45
Qualinet meeting
14:00 – 18:00
Location: Building B, room 3.104 “Ateljén”
Tuesday June 18, 2024
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Opening Address
09:00 – 09:40
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Oral Session 1: Subjective and Objective Methods for Immersive Media Quality Assessment (SS3)
09:40 – 10:40
Session Chair: Mylene Farias
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Perceptual Crack Detection for Rendered 3D Textured Meshes
Armin Shafiee Sarvestani; Wei Zhou; Zhou Wang
Assessing objective quality metrics for JPEG and MPEG point cloud coding
Davi Lazzarotto; Michela Testolina; Touradj Ebrahimi
Voices Unveiled: Quality of Experience in Collaborative VR via AssemblyAI and NASA-TLX Analysis
Bhagyabati Moharana; Conor Keighrey; Niall Murray
Coffee & Tea Break
10:40 – 11:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 2: Sustainable Quality of Multimedia Experience (SS1) and Science Happens – Lessons Learned from Not-Quite-Successful Research Endeavours (SS2)
11:00 – 12:20
Session Chair: Maria Torres Vega
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Assessing the Carbon Reduction Potential for Video Streaming from Short-Term Coding Changes (SS1)
Daniel Schien; Paul Shabajee; Huseyin Burak Akyol; Luke Benson; Angeliki Katsenou
A QoE-based Energy-aware Resource Allocation Solution for 5G Heterogeneous Networks (SS1)
Claudia Carballo Gonzalez; Ernesto Fontes Pupo; Gulnaziye Bingol; Alessandro Floris; Simone Porcu; Maurizio Murroni; Luigi Atzori
On the identification of the leading sensory cue in mulsemedia VR applications (SS2)
Anna Ferrarotti; Sara Baldoni; Marco Carli; Federica Battisti
Exploiting Change Blindness for Video Coding: Perspectives from a Less Promising User Study (SS2)
Mitra Amiri; Steven Yves Le Moan; Christian Herglotz
Lunch
12:20 – 13:30
Location: Etapp 5, restaurant “ITALII”
Keynote 1: Pablo Cesar – Towards Volumetric Video Conferencing
13:30 – 14:30
Chair: Lea Skorin-Kapov
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Poster 1 / Demo and Hybrid Experiences 1
14:30 – 16:00
Session Chair: Pablo Pérez
Lightning presentations of posters and demos: 14:30 – 14:45
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Posters and demos: 14:45 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta” and adjacent rooms “Nilen” & “Ganges”
POSTERS:
Impact of Video Luminance on Perceptual Quality and Energy Consumption in Video Streaming (SS1)
Minh Nguyen; Görkem Güclü; Martin Lasak; Robert Seeliger; Stephan Steglich; Stefan Arbanowski
Towards ML-Driven Video Encoding Parameter Selection for Quality and Energy Optimization (SS1)
Zoha Azimi Ourimi; Reza Farahani; Vignesh V. Menon; Christian Timmerer; Radu Prodan
Engaging yet ineffective? A video coding tool’s impact on learning (SS2)
Carlos Cortés; Carlos Cuevas; Narciso García
Quality of NeRF Changes with the Viewing Path an Observer Takes: A Subjective Quality Assessment of Real-time NeRF Model (SS3)
Shaira Tabassum; Seyed Ali Amirshahi
A Subjective Test Framework for JPEG Pleno Quality Assessment (SS3)
Shengyang Zhao; Saeed Mahmoudpour; Mylene Farias; Carla Pagliari; Peter Schelkens
Towards Video Codec Performance Evaluation: A Rate-Energy-Distortion Perspective
Geetha Ramasubbu; Andre Kaup; Christian Herglotz
Sitting, Chatting, Waiting: Influence of Loading Times on Mobile Instant Messaging QoE
Anika Seufert; Carina Baur; Fabian Poignée; Michael Seufert; Tobias Hoßfeld
DEMOS:
NetRate: An Application for Collecting QoE, Energy, and Network Data on Android Devices (SS1)
Simone Porcu; Lazizjon Suyunov; Alessandro Floris; Luigi Atzori
Merging Places: A Real-Time Distributed Live Reverberation Chamber (SS1)
Austin Franklin; Daniel Hedin; Rikard Lindell; Henrik Frisk
Building a low-cost Immersive Haptic Feedback Glove for Virtual Reality (SS3)
Aaron William McEvoy; Niall Murray; Conor Keighrey
Improving a Pupillometry Signal Through Video Luminance Modulation (invited from full paper)
Leon Schreiber; Wafaa Wardah; Vera Schmitt; Sebastian Möller; Robert P. Spang
Stereoscopic 360-Degree Hybrid Conference Experience at QoMEX 2024 (hybrid experience demo)
Markus Fiedler; Jonas Svegland
QoEXplainer: Mediating Explainable Quality of Experience Models with Large Language Models (hybrid experience demo)
Nikolas Wehner; Nils Feldhus; Michael Seufert; Sebastian Möller; Tobias Hoßfeld
Coffee & Tea Serving
15:30 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 3: Audio / Visual User Experience
16:00 – 17:40
Session Chair: Kjell Brunnström
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
(Not) The Sum of Its Parts: Relating Individual Video and Browsing Stimuli to Web Session QoE
Johannes Schleicher; Nikolas Wehner; Tobias Hoßfeld; Michael Seufert
Drop or Stop: Investigating the Impact of Playback Rate on QoE in Adaptive Video Streaming
Tomasz Lyko; Yehia Elkhatib; Rajiv Ramdhany; Nicholas Race
The Role of ECG and Respiration in Predicting Quality of Experience
Sowmya Vijayakumar; Ronan Flynn; Peter Corcoran; Niall Murray
Impact of feedback on crowdsourced visual quality assessment with paired comparisons
Mohsen Jenadeleh; Alexander Heß; Simon Hviid Del Pin; Edwin Gamboa; Matthias Hirth; Dietmar Saupe
Disentangling User States in QoE: Situation-Dependent and Independent Factors
Robert P. Spang; Maximilian Warsinke; Vera Schmitt; Luis-Felipe Villa-Arenas; Navid Ashrafi; Sebastian Möller
Welcome Reception
19:00 –
Location: Building B/C, Restaurant &Vin
Wednesday June 19, 2024
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 4: Quality Assessment and Gaming
09:00 – 10:40
Session Chair: Mirko Suznjevic
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Comparing Continuous and Retrospective Emotion Ratings in Remote VR Study
Maximilian Warsinke; Tanja Kojic; Maurizio Vergari; Robert P. Spang; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons; Sebastian Möller
Improving a Pupillometry Signal Through Video Luminance Modulation
Leon Schreiber; Wafaa Wardah; Vera Schmitt; Sebastian Möller; Robert P. Spang
Is VR Mainstream yet? A Survey of the Norwegian Public’s Familiarity, Acceptance, and Use
Ragnhild Eg; Kjetil Raaen
Measuring User Experience of Older Adults during Virtual Reality Exergaming
Lucas Küntzer; Sandra Schwab; Heike Spaderna; Georg Rock
The Impact of Social Environment and Interaction Focus on User Experience and Social Acceptability of an Augmented Reality Game
Lorenzo Cocchia; Maurizio Vergari; Tanja Kojic; Francesco Vona; Sebastian Möller; Franca Garzotto; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
Coffee & Tea Break
10:40 – 11:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Diversity and Inclusion Panel
11:00 – 12:20
Panel Chairs: Ramachandra Rao Rakesh Rao, Sara Vlahovic
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Lunch
12:20 – 13:30
Location: Etapp 5, restaurant “ITALII”
Keynote 2: David Granberg – Exploring Immersive Learning Landscapes
13:30 – 14:30
Chair: Markus Fiedler
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Demo and Hybrid Experiences 2
14:30 – 16:00
Session Chair: Steve Göring, Conor Keighrey
Lightning presentations of demos:
14:30 – 14:40
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Demos
14:40 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Interactions goes virtual: Towards Collaborative XR (invited demo from IMX 2024)
Anna Ferrarotti, Sara Baldon, Federica Battisti and Marco Carli
Laboratory study: Human Interaction using Remote Control System for Airport Safety Management
Shirin Rafiei, Kjell Brunnström, Bo Schenkman, Jonas Andersson, Mårten Sjöström
On the identification of the leading sensory cue in mulsemedia VR applications
Anna Ferrarotti; Sara Baldoni; Marco Carli; Federica Battisti
Real-Time Free Viewpoint Video for Immersive Videoconferencing (hybrid experience demo)
Javier Uson; Victoria Muñoz; Carlos Cortés; Daniel Berjón; Francisco Morán; César Díaz; Jesús Gutiérrez; Fernando Jaureguizar; Narciso García; Julián Cabrera
Immersive Telepresence for Hybrid Meetings: Gamified Tele-assistance, Museums, and Technical Support (hybrid experience demo)
Mario Utiel-Moreno; Marta Orduna; Pablo Pérez; Amaya Jiménez-Moreno; Kamil Koniuch; Juan Torres; Alvaro Villegas;
Stereoscopic 360-Degree Hybrid Conference Experience at QoMEX 2024 (hybrid experience demo)
Markus Fiedler; Jonas Svegland
Coffee & Tea Serving
15:30 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Ph.D. Mentoring
15:30 – 17:00
Session Chair: Poul E. Heegaard
Location: TBA
Banquet Dinner
18:00: Bus transfer to Eriksberg
Location: Eriksberg Hotel and Nature Reserve
Thursday June 20, 2024
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 5: Datasets and tools
09:00 – 10:40
Session Chair: Mohsen Jenadeleh
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
AVT-VQDB-UHD-1-HDR: An Open Video Quality Dataset for Quality Assessment of UHD-1 HDR Videos
Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao; Benjamin Herb; Helmi-Aurora Takala; Mohamed Tarek Mohamed Ahmed; Alexander Raake
AVT-VQDB-UHD-2-HDR: An open 8K HDR source dataset for video quality research
Dominik Keller; Thomas Goebel; Valentin Siebenkees; Julius Prenzel; Alexander Raake
The effect of viewing distance and display peak luminance – HDR AV1 video streaming quality dataset
Dounia Hammou; Lukáš Krasula; Christos Bampis; Zhi Li; Rafal Mantiuk
A Spherical Light Field Database for Immersive Telecommunication and Telepresence Applications
Emin Zerman; Manu Gond; Soheib Takhtardeshir; Roger Olsson; Mårten Sjöström
AVT-ECoClass-VR: An open-source audiovisual 360° video and immersive CGI multi-talker dataset to evaluate cognitive performance
Stephan Fremerey; Carolin Breuer; Larissa Leist; Maria Klatte; Janina Fels; Alexander Raake
Coffee & Tea Break
10:40 – 11:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 6: Statistical Modeling and Analysis of Subjective and Objective Image Quality Assessments (SS4) and QoE Management
11:00 – 12:20
Session Chair: Emin Zerman
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
National differences in image quality assessment: An investigation on three large-scale IQA datasets (SS4)
Dietmar Saupe; Simon Hviid Del Pin
Evaluating Visually Lossless Compression of JPEG XS, JPEG 2000, HEVC and AV1 in Selected Medical Imaging Modalities
Bassem Elmeligy; Thomas Richter; Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao; Siegfried Foessel; Alexander Raake
Bitrate Control Method based on Quality and Data Volume for WebRTC Simulcast
Masahiro Yokota; Kazuhisa Yamagishi
A Theoretical Framework for Provider’s QoE Assessment using Individual and Objective QoE Monitoring
Tobias Hoßfeld; Pablo Pérez
Lunch
12:20 – 13:30
Location: Etapp 5, restaurant “ITALII”
Keynote 3: Fatuma Simba – Quality of Multimedia Experience and Connectivity Infrastructure in Africa
13:30 – 14:30
Chair: Alexander Raake
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Poster 2
14:30 – 16:00
Session Chair: Simone Porcu
Lightning presentations of posters and demos: 14:30 – 14:45
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Posters: 14:45 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Comparative Analysis of Subjective Evaluations for Traditional and Neural-Based Video Enhancement Techniques
Darren A Ramsook; Vibhoothi Vibhoothi; Anil Kokaram; Angeliki Katsenou; David Bull
Enhancing Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy with Haptics: The Virtual Rage Room Use Case
Javad Sameri; Flor Neufkens; Sam Van Damme; Filip De Turck; Maria Torres Vega
Virtual Forests, Real Skills: Assessing the QoE of VR-based Occupational Training and its Impact on Experience and Learning Outcomes
Michael Oppermann; Raimund Schatz; Andreas Sackl; Sebastian Egger-Lampl
Listenability Assessment for Language Learning Through the Quality of Experience Lens
Michael Gringo Angelo R Bayona; Andrew Hines; Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha
Exploring Conversations with AI NPCs: The Impact of Token Latency on QoE and Player Experience in a Text-Based Game
Nikolina Roso; Sara Vlahovic; Nenad Markuš; Mirko Suznjevic
Subjective Evaluation of the Impact of Spatial Audio on Triadic Communication in Virtual Reality
Felix Immohr; Gareth Rendle; Christian Kehling; Anton Lammert; Steve Göring; Bernd Froehlich; Alexander Raake
Codec Compression Efficiency Evaluation for Ultra Low-Latency Cloud Gaming Applications
Nabajeet Barman; Saman Zadtootaghaj; Steven Schmidt; Yuanhan Chen; Man-Cheung Kung
Playing Catch-Up: Evaluating Playback Speed Control in Low-Latency Live Streaming
Yu Liang; Tomasz Lyko; Mike E Nilsson; Paul Farrow; Steve Appleby; Matthew Broadbent; Nicholas Race
A Dual Rig Approach for Multi-View Video and Spatialized Audio Capture in Medical Training
Joshua Maraval; Bangning Wei; David Pesce; Yann Gayral; Meriem Outtas; Nicolas Ramin; Lu Zhang
An Image Quality Dataset with Triplet Comparisons for Multi-dimensional Scaling
Mohsen Jenadeleh; Frederik Dennig; Rene Cutura; Quynh Ngo; Daniel Keim; Michael Sedlmair; Dietmar Saupe
The Frankenstone toolbox for video quality analysis of user-generated content
Steve Göring; Alexander Raake
Coffee & Tea Serving
15:30 – 16:00
Location: Building A, foyer “Delta”
Oral Session 7: Immersive Experiences and Technologies
16:00 – 17:20
Session Chair: Katrien De Moor
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
Towards the Application of Multi-view Learning in Quality of Experience Collaborative Modelling
MohammadAli Hamidi; Simone Porcu; Alessandro Floris; Luigi Atzori
Investigating the impact of virtual element misalignment in collaborative Augmented Reality experiences
Francesco Vona; Michael Stern; Navid Ashrafi; Tanja Kojic; Sina Hinzmann; David Karl Grieshammer; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
Evaluating QoE in Collaborative Co-Located Training Using Heterogeneous AR Devices
Mirta Moslavac; Sara Vlahovic; Lea Skorin-Kapov
Enhancing Immersive Experiences through 3D Point Cloud Analysis: A Novel Framework for Applying 2D Visual Saliency Models to 3D Point Clouds
Marouane Tliba; Xuemei Zhou; Irene Viola; Pablo Cesar; Aladine Chetouani; Giuseppe Valenzise; Frederic Dufaux
Closing
17:20 – 17:40
Location: Building A, lecture hall “Rio Grande”
After-Party
19:00 – …
Location: Port Hotel, Rombar
Details to be announced.
Friday June 21, 2024
Traditional Swedish Midsummer Celebration
14:00 – …
Location: Rosengården, Karlshamn
Join us for music and dancing around the floral dressed pole .
Venue floor plan
