Programme

Thursday 12th September

09:00 - 10:50	Registration
10:50 - 11:00	Opening session Dr Franck Vidal, Bangor University

VR track 1 (session chair: Dr Panagiotis D. Ritsos)

11:00 - 11:20	Virtual Reality Callouts - Demonstrating Knowledge With Spatial-Related Textual Information Robin Horst, Anika Degreif, Marvin Mathy, Ralph Dörner
11:20 - 11:40	Assisting Serious Games Level Design with an Augmented Reality Application and Workflow Lee Beever, Serban Pop, Nigel W. John
11:40 - 12:00	Optimising Underwater Environments for Mobile VR Llyr Ap Cenydd, Chris Headleand
12:00 - 12:20	A Somatic Approach to Combating Cybersickness Utilising Airflow Feedback Jake Harrington, Benjamin Williams, Chris Headleand
12:20 - 12:35	Projectional Radiography Simulator: an Interactive Teaching Tool Aaron Sujar, Graham Kelly, Marcos Garcia, Franck Vidal

12:35 - 13:40

Lunch

VR track 2 (session chair: Prof Nigel W. John)

13:40 - 14:00	Generating High Fidelity Surface Meshes of Neocortical Neurons using Skin Modifiers Marwan Abdellah, Cyrille Favreau, Juan Hernando, Samuel Lapere, Felix Schürmann
14:00 - 14:20	Fast and Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search for Particle Simulations Julian Gross, Marcel Koester, Antonio Krueger
14:20 - 14:40	Evaluating Models for Virtual Forestry Generation and Tree Placement in Games Benjamin Williams, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Chris Headleand

Simulation and rendering track (session chair: Dr Tom W. A. Kelly)

14:40 - 15:00	Accelerating Surface Tension Calculation in SPH via Particle Classification & Monte Carlo Integration Fernando Zorrilla, Johannes Sappl, Wolfgang Rauch, Matthias Harders
15:00 - 15:20	Hash-based Hierarchical Caching for Interactive Previews in Global Illumination Rendering Thorsten Roth, Martin Weier, Pablo Bauszat, André Hinkenjann, Yongmin Li

Coffee and poster session

15:20 - 16:00	Deep Terrain Expansion: Terrain Texture Synthesis with Deep Learning Vasilis Toulatzis, Ioannis Fudos
	Controlling 3D Visualisations with Multiple Degrees of Freedom Mario Sandoval
	Comparing Gestural Interfaces using Kinect and OpenPose Rahman Aminur, Louis Clift, Adrian F. Clark

16:00 - 17:00	Keynote talk Prof Carol O'Sullivan, Trinity College Dublin
18:00	Tour of the Bangor University Main Building (see the Virtual Experience)
18:30	Dinner @Teras Lounge (http://teras.bangor.ac.uk/)

Friday 13nd September

Computer vision track (session chair: Dr Marwan Abdellah)

09:20 - 09:40	Registration of 3D triangular models to 2D X-ray projections using black-box optimisation and X-ray simulation Tianci Wen, Franck Vidal, Jean-Michel Letang, Shatha Al-maliki, Radu Paul
09:40 - 10:00	Robust and Flexible Puzzle Solving with Corner-based Cycle-consistent Correspondences Taiwei Wang, Vladimirov, Kristiyan, Goh Shu Yu, Yu-Kun Lai, Xianghua Xie, Gary KL Tam
10:00 - 10:30	Coffee break

VR track 3 (session chair: Dr Llyr Ap Cenydd)

10:30 - 10:50

Deformed Reality Antoine Petit, Nazim Haouchine, Frederick Roy, Daniel Goldman, Stephane Cotin

Short paper track (session chair: Dr Llyr Ap Cenydd)

10:50 - 11:05	A Mesh Correspondence Approach for Efficient Animation Transfer Anastasia Moutafidou, Ioannis Fudos
11:05 - 11:20	Recognising Human-Object Interactions Using Attention-based LSTMs Muna Almushyti, Frederick W. B. Li
11:20 - 11:35	Towards a tool for the creation of micro-visualisations James R. Jackson, Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Jonathan C. Roberts
11:35 - 11:50	Sampling with Pinwheel Tiles Abdalla Ahmed
11:50 - 12:05	Colour Processing in Adversarial Attacks on Face Liveness Systems Latifah Abduh, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis

12:05 - 13:00	Lunch
13:00 - 14:00	Capstone Dr Rita Borgo, King's College London
14:00 - 14:15	Awards and closing Dr G. Tam (Swansea University) and Prof J.C. Roberts (Bangor University)
14:15 - 14:30	EGUK Annual general meeting Dr Robert Laramee, Swansea University)