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Conference Locations

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Conference Venues

Riverside Innovation Centre (RIC) University of Chester Castle Drive Chester CH1 1SL Tel. +44 (0)1244 515500

Thornton Science Park (TSP) University of Chester Pool Lane Chester CH2 4NU Tel. +44 (0)1244 567500

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Programme at a glance …

Registration Desk is opened on Wednesday, 20th September, between 10:00 – 14:00 at Riverside Innovation Centre. A guided walk around Chester’s famous city walls will start at 11:00, meeting point at Riverside Innovation Centre. The buses for Thornton Science Park will leave at 13:00 on Wednesday, 20th September and at 08:30 on Thursday, 21st September. On both days the pick-up/drop-off point is the Little Roodee Car Park (see map and pictures below) located close to Riverside Innovation Centre.

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Keynote Speakers

Myths and Promises of Data Intelligence Prof Min Chen, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 14:30 Wednesday In this talk the speaker will examine the following myths: (1) The problem of “Big Data” is due to too much data. (2) The “Big Data” problem is a recent phenomenon. (3) Machine intelligence is the only hope. (4) Visualization provides insight. (5) Data processing inequity is ubiquitous. The speaker will draw evidence from a number of research projects in which he was involved to explain why Visual Analytics may offer a promise, and will discuss the potential role of the cyberspace in supporting data intelligence.

Towards perceptually realistic visual experience Dr Rafal Mantiuk, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 09:30 Thursday Today's computer graphics techniques make it possible to create imagery that is hardly distinguishable from photographs. However, a photograph is clearly no match to an actual real-world scene. I argue that the next big challenge is to achieve perceptual realism by creating artificial imagery that would be hard to distinguish from reality. This requires profound changes in the entire imaging pipeline, from acquisition and rendering to display, with the strong focus on visual perception. The technical limitations of display technologies make it very hard to deliver perceptually realistic images. However, we can get much closer to that goal by a technique that involves optimization of perceptual match between real-world visual content and the rendition of that content on a display. Given the limitations of a display and a model of visual system, we can render images, which are the closest match to the real-world experience. I will demonstrate such approach on an example of modelling night vision, in which we can simulate night vision or compensate for its limitations. The method can be used in games, driving simulators, or as a compensation for displays used under varying ambient light levels.

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Social Events

Welcome Reception (18:30)

Wednesday, 20th September, Energy Centre, TSP. A cheese and wine reception will be held after the conclusion of the afternoon paper sessions. You will be guided to the Energy Centre.

Live Music – The Price/Roberts Guitar Duo

Tim Price and Tony Roberts have both studied the guitar for many years, and started playing together during their careers in industrial R+D. Both now retired, they are able to devote more time and energy to musical activities, and perform regularly as a duo in the Cheshire and Wirral areas. They particularly favour repertoire, which crosses musical genres. This evening’s short selection includes music from across the world (and three centuries) by Scarlatti, Bartok, Gismonti and Piazzolla.

Conference Banquet (19:00)

Thursday, 21st September, Abode Chester Hotel, Chester City Centre.

Tattersalls Suite

With unparalleled views of England’s oldest working racecourse, the contemporary ABode Chester offers a warm welcome in the heart of the city, complemented by exceptional dining and a modern, stylish and sophisticated design.

Please make your own way to the Chester Abode, which is a short walk from the Riverside Innovation Centre (see map). A welcome drink will be served on arrival (19:00). Dinner starts at 19:30 to 22:00.

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Main Programme

Wednesday, 20th September

Thornton Science Park

Plenary Session (Building: 40 Backford, Room: VDR) 14:00 – 14:30 Opening and welcome Session Chair: Nigel John 14:30 – 15:30 Keynote Speaker – Min Chen.

“Myths and Promises of Data Intelligence”.

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

Session A (Building: 40 Backford, Room: VDR) Topics: Computer Vision, Affective Computing and Brain-Computer Interfaces. Session Chair: Alexei Sourin 16:00 – 16:30 On Gender Identification using the Smile Dynamics.

Ahmad Al-Dahoud and Hassan Ugail.

16:30 – 17:00 EEG-based Mental Workload and Stress Recognition of Crew Members in Maritime Virtual Simulator: A Case Study. Yisi Liu, Salem Chandrasekaran Harihara Subramaniam, Olga Sourina, Serene Hui Ping Liew, Gopala Krishnan, Dimitrios Konovessis and Hock Eng Ang.

17:00 – 17:30 Motion Capture and Retargeting of Fish by Monocular Camera. Xiangfei Meng, Junjun Pan and Hong Qin.

17:30 – 18:00 User Friendly Calibration for Tracking of Optical Stereo See-Through Head Worn Displays for Augmented Reality. Felix Bernard, Timo Engelke and Arjan Kuijper.

18:00 – 18:20 Short Paper: Unsupervised Feature Learning for EEG-based Emotion Recognition. Zirui Lan, Olga Sourina, Lipo Wang, Reinhold Scherer and Gernot Muller-Putz.

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Session B (Building: 62 Dunham, Room: TDU036)

Topics: E-learning, Welfare and Data Visualisations in CyberWorlds. Session Chair: Juan Carlos Torres 16:00 – 16:30 Willingness of Distracted Smartphone Users on the Move to

be Interrupted in Potentially Dangerous Situations. Sandra Beuck, Alexander Scheurer and Matthias Wölfel.

16:30 – 16:50 Short Paper: Popular Performance Metrics for Evaluation of Interaction in Virtual and Augmented Reality. Ali Samini and Karljohan Lundin Palmerius.

16:50 – 17:10 Short Paper: A Comparison of Audio Models for Virtual Reality Video. Steven Davies, Stuart Cunningham and Rich Picking.

17:10 – 17:30 Short Paper: IoT Remote Group Experiments in the Cyber Laboratory: A FPGA-based Remote Laboratory in the Hybrid Cloud. Norihiro Fujii and Nobuhiko Koike.

17:30 – 17:50 Short Paper: Building Immersive Data Visualizations for the Web. Peter W. S. Butcher and Panagiotis D. Ritsos.

18:30 Welcome Reception

Energy Centre, Thornton Science Park 20:00 Bus departs from TSP to Little Roodee Car Park, Chester

City Centre.

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Thursday, 21st September

08:30 Bus departs from Little Roodee Car Park

Thornton Science Park

Session Chair: Serban Pop 09:30 – 10:30 Keynote Speaker – Rafal Mantiuk.

“Towards perceptually realistic visual experience.” 10:30 – 11:00 Posters Fast Track (9 presentations x 3 minutes) 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break – Posters

Posters will be displayed in the main conference room, VDR, building 40 Backford.

Session A (Building: 40 Backford, Room: VDR) Topics: Applications of Virtual, Mixed and Augmented Reality, Art and Heritage. Session Chair: Hassan Ugail 11:30 – 12:00 Interactive Physics Based Deformation for Virtual Worlds.

Andreas Riffnaller-Schiefer, Ursula H. Augsdörfer and Dieter W. Fellner.

12:00 – 12:30 A Stable and Accurate Marker-less Augmented Reality Registration Method. Qing Hong Gao, Tao Ruan Wan, Wen Tang and Long Chen.

12:30 – 13:00 Anisotropic Surface Reconstruction for Multiphase Fluids. Xiaokun Wang, Xiaojuan Ban, Yalan Zhang, Zhigeng Pan and Sinuo Liu.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break Session Chair: Lee Beever 14:00 – 14:30 Crowd-sourced Procedural Animation Optimisation:

Comparing Desktop and VR Behaviour. Gareth I. Henshall, William J. Teahan and Llyr Ap Cenydd.

14:30 – 15:00 A Time-line Approach for the Generation of Simulated Settlements. Benjamin Williams and Christopher J. Headleand.

15:00 – 15:20 Short Paper: Wheelchair-MR: A Mixed Reality Wheelchair Simulator. Thomas W. Day.

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15:20 – 16:00 Coffee Break - Posters Session Chair: Anton Nijholt

16:00 – 16:20 Short Paper: Using Virtual Reality to Experience Different Powered Wheelchair Configurations. Thomas W. Day, William H. Dobson, Christopher J. Headleand, Nigel W. John and Serban R. Pop.

16:20 – 16:40 Short Paper: Imitation of handwriting for art and heritage in cyberspace. Stanislav Klimenko, Leonid Mestetskiy and Andrey Semenov.

16:40 – 17:00 Short Paper: 3D Re-creation of Heritage Artefacts using a Hybrid of CGI and Holography. Ardeshir Osanlou, Shuo Wang and Peter S. Excell.

Session B (Building: 62 Dunham, Room: TDU036) Topics: Cybersecurity, Machine Learning and Cognitive Informatics. Session Chair: Lee Speakman

11:30 – 12:00 Software and Malware Capabilities: Opinions on (Inter)National Security. Jantje A M Silomon and A W Roscoe.

12:00 – 12:30 Web Defacement and Intrusion Monitoring Tool: WDIMT. Mfundo Masango, Francois Mouton, Palesa Antony and Bokang Mangoale.

12:30 – 13:00 Contrasting False Identities in Social Networks by Trust Chains and Biometric Reinforcement. Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Denis Migdal, Serena Nicolazzo, Antonino Nocera and Christophe Rosenberger.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Session Chair: Arjan Kuijper

14:00 – 14:30 A collaborative Augmented Reality framework based on Distributed Visual SLAM. Ruwan Egodagamage and Mihran Tuceryan.

14:30 – 14:50 Short Paper: A Machine Learning Approach for Ethnic Classification: The British Pakistani Face. Shelina Khalid Jilani, Hassan Ugail, Ali Maina Bukar, Andrew Logan and Tasnim Munshi.

14:50 – 15:10 Short Paper: A Non-Invasive 2D Digital Imaging Method for Detection of Surface Lesions Using Machine Learning. Nosheen Hussain, Hassan Ugail, Ali Bukar, David Connah, Patricia Cooper and Steven Shnyder

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15:10 – 16:00 Coffee Break Session Chair: Thaddeus Eze

16:00 – 16:20 Short Paper: Synthesis of Face Images based on Relevance Feedback. Caie Xu, Shota Fushimi, Masahiro Toyoura, Jiayi Xu, Honglin Li and Xiaoyang Mao.

16:20 – 16:40 Short Paper: Neurofeedback Training for Rifle Shooters to Improve Cognitive Ability. Yisi Liu, Salem Chandrasekaran Harihara Subramaniam, Olga Sourina, Eesha Shah, Joshua Chua and Kirill Ivanov.

16:40 – 17:00 Short Paper: Adaptive Face Recognition Based on Image Quality. Fatema Tuz Zohra and Marina Gavrilova.

17:30 Bus departs from TSP to Little Roodee Car Park, Chester

City Centre. 20:00 Conference Banquet at the Abode Hotel, Chester City Centre

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Friday, 22nd September

Riverside Innovation Centre, Chester Topics: Shape Modelling for CyberWorlds, Virtual Humans, Networked and Shared Worlds. Session Chair: Olga Sourina

09:00 – 09:30 Automatic Generation of a 3D Terrain Model from Key Contours. Kenichi Sugihara and Takahiro Murase.

09:30 – 10:00 Voxel-Based Interactive Rendering of Translucent Materials under Area Lights Using Sparse Samples. Ming Di Koa, Henry Johan, and Alexei Sourin.

10:00 – 10:30 Scattered data points fitting using Ball B-Spline Curves based on Particle Swarm Optimization. Xingce Wang, Zhongke Wu, Junchen Shen, Qianqian Jiang, Yuanshuai Zhu and Mingquan Zhou.

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Session Chair: Wen Tang 11:00 – 11:30 FiVES: An Aspect-Oriented Virtual Environment Server.

Torsten Spieldenner, Sergiy Byelozyorov, Michael Guldner and Philipp Slusallek

11:30 – 11:50 Short Paper: A Method for Autonomous Positioning Avatars in a Group. Fons Kuijk.

11:50 – 12:10 Short Paper: NPR Hair Modeling with Parametric Clumps. Kunio Yamamoto, Toma Shimosoyama and Tsukasa Noma.

12:10 – 13:00 Lunch Break

Session Chair: Christopher Headleand 13:00 – 13:20 Short Paper: Humans as Avatars in Smart and Playful

Cities. Anton Nijholt.

13:20 – 13:40 Short Paper: Modeling Deformable Objects for Medical Training with Haptic Devices. Celia Romo, Francisco A. Conde, Nigel W. John and Juan Carlos Torres.

13:40 – 14:00 Short Paper: OpenGL|D - A Multi-user Single State Architecture for Multiplayer Game Development. Karsten Pedersen, Wen Tang and Christos Gatzidis.

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14:00 – 14:20 Short Paper: Semantic cyberspace of scientific papers.

Michael Charnine and Stanislav Klimenko. 14:20 – 15:00 Discussions & Conference Closing

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Posters (Thursday, 21st September)

Mitigating Cyber Security Attacks by Being Aware of Vulnerabilities and Bugs. Ömer Aslan and Refik Samet. RAD-AR: RADiotherapy - Augmented Reality. Francesco Cosentino, Nigel W John, and Jaap Vaarkamp. Artificial Folklore for Simulated Religions. Jason A Hall, Benjamin Williams, and Christopher J Headleand. VR Cardiovascular Blood Simulation as Decision Support for the Future Cyber Hospital. Mark I Holland, Serban R Pop, and Nigel John. Starwatch 3.0: Visualizing Wave Patterns of Phased Array Radio Telescopes. Stanislav Klimenko, Kira Konich, Igor Nikitin, and Lialia Nikitina. Visualising Virtual Reality Imagery through Digital Holography. Ioana Pioaru. Trust for Data and Data Platforms in the Cyber-World. Hiroyuki Sato and Takanori Ogata. Traversing Social Networks in the Virtual Dance Hall: Visualizing History in VR. Helen V Southall, Lee Beever, and Peter WS Butcher. Face Recognition-Based Mobile Automatic Classroom Attendance Management System. Refik Samet and Muhammed Tanriverdi.

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Buses Schedule

Wednesday, 20th September 13:00 Little Roodee Car Park (Bus to TSP) The meeting point on that day is front of Riverside Innovation Centre, and the group will be guided towards the car park where the buses will be waiting. 20:00 Thornton Science Park (Bus to Chester) Thursday, 21st September 08:30 Little Roodee Car Park (Bus to TSP) 17:30 Thornton Science Park (Bus to Chester) Friday, 22nd September No buses needed, the conference venue is at a walking distance within Chester City Centre.

Note: Unfortunately, if any of the bus connections are missed, you will have to travel to the Thornton Science Park (Pool Lane, Chester CH2 4NU) at your own expense by taxi. It is nine miles from the city centre.

https://taxichester.uk/ +44 (0) 1244 79 40 42. http://www.chestertaxicall.co.uk/ +44 (0) 1244 458458.

Emergency contact

Serban Pop Email: s.pop@chester.ac.uk, Mobile: +44 (0) 7701040297.

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Organization

General Chairs Serban Pop (University of Chester, UK)

Program Chairs Nigel John (University of Chester, UK) Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Conference Founder Tosiyasu L. Kunii (Morpho Inc., Japan)

Conference Coordinator Alexei Sourin (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

International Program Committee Ap Cenydd, Llyr (Bangor University) Ayiter, Elif (Sabanci University) Balcisoy, Selim (Sabanci University) Brunnett, Guido (Chemnitz University of Technology) Chen, Yung Fu (Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology) Doroz, Rafal (University of Silesia) Earnshaw, Rae (University of Bradford) Eze, Thaddeus (University of Chester) Fujishiro, Issei (Keio University) Galvez-Tomida, Akemi (University of Cantabria) Gavrilova, Marina (University of Calgary) Goesele, Michael (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Grout, Vic (Wrexham Glyndŵr University) Hamann, Bernd (University of California, Davis) Headleand, Christopher (University of Lincoln) Hughes, Chris (Salford University) Iglesias Prieto, Andres (Universidad de Cantabria) Ihara, Masayuki (NTT Service Evoluation Labs.) Jin, Xiaogang (State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University) John, Nigel (University of Chester) Jorge, Joaquim A (Computers & Graphics) Kankanhalli, Mohan (National University of Singapore) Klimenko, Stanislav (Institute of Computing for Phycics and Technology) Konno, Kouichi (Iwate University) Kotenko, Igor (SPIIRAS)

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Kuijper, Arjan (TU Darmstadt) Kunii, Tosiyasu (Morpho, Inc.) Li, Ling (Curtin University of Technology) Mao, Xiaoyang (University of Yamanashi) Miyata, Kazunori (JAIST) Miyazaki, Shinya (Chukyo University) Morris, Jeff (Texas A&M University) Nakajima, Masayuki (Uppsala University) Ohmori, Kenji (Hosei University) Pan, Zhigeng (Digital Media and HCI Research Center, Hangzhou Normal University) Pang, Ming- Yong (Nanjing Normal University) Pop, Serban (University of Chester) Prakoonwit, Simant (Bournemouth University) Raskin, Victor Rayz, Julia (Purdue University) Ritsos, Panagiotis (Bangor University) Samet, Refik (Ankara University) Shinya, Mikio (Toho University) Shiraishi, Michio (Toho University) Sourin, Alexei (Nanyang Technological University) Sourina, Olga (Fraunhofer IDM@NTU) Speakman, Lee (University of Chester) Sugimoto, Maki (Keio University) Takahashi, Hiroki (The University of Electro-Communications) Tang, Wen (Bournemouth University) Thalmann, Daniel (Institute for Media Innovations, NTU) Torres, Juan Carlos (Univ. de Granada) Toyoura, Masahiro (University of Yamanashi) Ugail, Hassan (University of Bradford) Urban, Bodo (Fraunhofer IGD Rostock) Vidal, Franck (Bangor University) Vaughan, Neil (Bourenmouth University) Walczak, Krzysztof (Poznan University of Economics) Wang, Guoping (Peking University) Westerski, Adam (Universidad Politecnica De Madrid) Wyvill, Brian (University of Victoria) Xie, Ning (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) Yampolskiy, Roman (University of Louisville) Yang, Zheng (Chongqing University of Technology) Yoshida, Norimasa (Nihon University) Yuan, Qingshu (Nanjing Normal University) Zara, Jiri (Czech Technical University in Prague) Zha, Hongbin (Peking University) Zheng, Jiang Yu (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

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