WiMAX London 2008 (15-16 October 2008)
 
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PROGRAMME

Wednesday 26 November 2008

 
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Matt Taylor
Email: matttaylor@theiet.org

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09:00
Registration and refreshments
09:20
Chairman’s welcome
Oliver Grau, lead technologist, BBC, UK
09:30
Keynote address
Creating an intelligent rail infrastructure
Andy Lomas, head of computer graphics, Framestore CFC, UK

Session 1: Image and Video Synthesis

10:20
Environment matting into photographs using coloured RTcams
C Li, P Hall, P Willis, University of Bath, UK

Example-based reflectance estimation for capturing relightable models of people
P Stroia-Williams, A Hilton, University of Surrey, UK
11:10
Refreshments

Session 2: Matting

11:30
Video matting using motion extended GrabCut
D Corrigan, A Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
S Robinson, The Foundry, UK

Information retrieval assisted object segmentation in video
D K Ring, Metronet, UK
A Kokaram, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Effects of camera aperture correction on keying of broadcast video
O Grau, J Easterbrook, BBC R&I, UK

13:00
Lunch and exhibition
14:00
Keynote address
Computer vision for computer games
Phil Torr, Professor in computer vision and machine learning, Oxford Brookes University, UK
14:50
Refreshments

Special session on hardware for media processing

15:10
Zego
S Witt, Sony Broadcast Europe

Graphics and video applications on cell processors
Chris Thomas, IBM
17:00
Panel discussion
17:30
Close of day one
18:00
The IET Pinkerton Lecture: Using social media to inspire change
Alex Balfour, head of new media, London organising committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games

Thursday 27 November 2008

 

Session 3: Registration and matching

09:00 Merging of feature tracks for camera motion estimation from Video
T Thormaehler, N Hasler, M Wand, H-P Seidel, Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany

Automatic and robust semantic registration of 3D head scans
D C Schneider, P Eisert, Frauhofer Institute of Telecommunications, Germany

A novel framework for semantic annotation of soccer sports video sequences
M Kolekar, K Palaniappan, University of Missouri, USA
S Sengupta, India Institute of Technology, India

An empirical study of non-rigid surface feature matching
A Doshi, A Hilton, J Starck, University of Surrey, UK

 

Session 4: 3D Reconstruction

10:40 Refreshments
11:10 3DPresence – A system concept for multi-user and multi-party immersive 3D videoconferencing
O Schreer, I Feldmann, W Waizenegger, N Atzpadin, P Eisert, H Belt, Frauhofer Institute of Telecommunications, Germany

Increasing realism and supporting content planning for dynamic scenes in a mixed reality system incorporating a time-of-flight camera
I Schiller, R Koch, University of Keil, Germany

12:30 Lunch and exhibition
13:30 Keynote address
David Seigle, President, IN-THREE
14:20 Refreshments
 

Special session on 3DTV and 3D-cinema production techniques

14:50 The challenges of stereoscopic production
Angus Cameron, Independent Stereoscopic Consultant

Shooting a car race in 3D
Josef Kluger, KuK Filmproduction

3D video creation as a post-production process
Chris Varekamp, Philips Research

Image processing for stereo film post-production
Simon Robinson, The Foundry, UK

16:30 Panel discussion
16:50 Closing remarks
17:00 Close of event

Poster session

Sketching islands for a game environment
P A C Varley, M Chover, A Puig-Centelles, Universidad Jaume I, Spain

Low latency mitigation of rain induced noise in image sequences
M F Subani, J P Oakley, University of Manchester, UK

Illumination and view invariant face detection and recognition in images with complex background
R Shoja Ghiars, E Fatemizadeh, Sharif University of Technology

Illumination invariant face tracking and recognition for human robot interaction
M-H Ju, H-B Kang, Catholic University of Korea, Korea

The good, the bad and the ugly: Attractive portraits from video sequences
G Albuquerque, T Stich, M Magnov, TU Braunschweig

 
 
 
     
 
 
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