Final deadline extension: the submission deadline is extended to April 15. This is a fixed deadline, there will be no additional extension.
Special Session 1: Towards the Quality of Experience assessment for Immersive Media
Organized by Dr. Pablo Carballeira, Dr. Jesús Gutiérrez and Prof. Lu Yu
Rationale
In recent years, there has been a promising increment on the research and development of 3D display technologies (super multiview, light field, integral imaging, holographic, HMD, …), seeking to achieve high 3D Quality of Experience (QoE) for immersive and free-viewpoint visual applications.
The assessment of the QoE in these new display devices and applications is, however, still an open issue. Image quality, depth quality, visual comfort, immersiveness and other technical and perceptual factors are subject to the specific characteristics of novel applications and display technologies. Therefore, the research on QoE is a keystone for the development of new immersive technologies, like compression techniques and its standardization in bodies such as MPEG or JPEG.
This special session focuses on the emerging challenges related to the assessment of QoE on visual applications driven by the latest 3D visualization technologies.
Topics of interest
- Multimodal experiences
- Visual perception properties with new 3D and immersive displays
- Subjective methodologies for QoE evaluation of new 3D and immersive displays
- Objective metrics for 3D QoE assessment
- QoE assessment for free-viewpoint navigation applications
Biography of the special session organizers
Dr. Pablo Carballeira received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2014. He is a researcher at the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (UPM) since 2007 and his current research interests include image processing, coding and subjective quality evaluation for super multiview and free navigation video scenarios.
Dr. Jesús Gutiérrez received the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 2016. He is a researcher at the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes (UPM) since 2010, and his current research interests are in the areas of image and 3D video processing and evaluation of multimedia quality of experience.
Prof. Lu Yu received her Ph.D. degree on Communication and Electronic Systems from Zhejiang University, China in 1996. She is currently professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Zhejiang University. Her research interests include video coding, multimedia communication, visual perceptual and visual experience, and visual quality assessment. She published more than 100 papers and contributed with 400+ technical proposals to international and national standards.
Important dates
Final paper submission underlies the same procedure as regular papers. Special Session papers will be published together with regular papers in the 3DTV-CON 2016 proceedings (see full information at the website: http://www.3dtv-con.org).
Special session paper submission: March 25 April 15, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2016
Camera-ready papers due: June 10, 2016
Special Session 2: Depth-Based Film & Post-Production
Organized by Dr. Frederik Zilly, Fraunhofer IIS, Germany
Rationale
The advent of digital cinema cameras allowed the easy integration of sophisticated 2D image processing algorithms in the film and post-production pipeline. However, the unbroken demand for better and advanced visual effects on one hand, and the aimed support of new displays such as VR displays on the other hand, generate a need for depth and multi-camera data in the post-production pipeline.
Against this background, the special session aims to discuss and promote the usage of multi-camera arrays, time-of-flight cameras or similar technologies dedicated to the film and post-production, which shall allow for new artistic effects such as changing the depth-of-field, rendering virtual camera paths, changing material properties and similar effects.
Biography of the special session organizer
Frederik Zilly is head of the Computational Imaging and Algorithms group in the Moving Picture Department of Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen, Germany. He received a diploma degree in physics from Free University of Berlin, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Technical University Berlin. Before joining Fraunhofer IIS, he was scientific project manager in the Immersive Media and 3D Video group in the Image Processing Department at Fraunhofer HHI in Berlin where he was involved in several German and European research projects related to 3DTV. His research focus lies in multi-camera image processing algorithms.
Important dates
Final paper submission underlies the same procedure as regular papers. Special Session papers will be published together with regular papers in the 3DTV-CON 2016 proceedings (see full information at the website: http://www.3dtv-con.org).
Special session paper submission: March 25 April 15, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: May 13, 2016
Camera-ready papers due: June 10, 2016