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 Short Courses begin
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Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2021

NOTES ABOUT THIS VIEW OF THE PROGRAM
  • Below is the the program in New York time.
  • Talks are to be presented live during the times noted and will be recorded. The recordings may be viewed at your convenience, as often as you like, until 30 April 2021.

Tuesday 19 January 2021

PLENARY: Deep Internal Learning—Deep Learning with Zero Examples

Session Chair: Charles Bouman, Purdue University (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Deep internal learning—Deep learning with zero examples
Michal Irani, Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

Michal Irani is a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Her research interests include computer vision, AI, and deep learning. Irani's prizes and honors include the Maria Petrou Prize (2016), the Helmholtz “Test of Time Award” (2017), the Landau Prize in AI (2019), and the Rothschild Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science (2020). She also received the ECCV Best Paper Awards (2000 and 2002), and the Marr Prize Honorable Mention (2001 and 2005).


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Thursday 21 January 2021

PLENARY: The Development of Integral Color Image Sensors and Cameras

Session Chair: Jonathan B. Phillips, Google Inc. (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

The development of integral color image sensors and cameras
Kenneth A. Parulski, Expert Consultant: Mobile Imaging (United States)

Kenneth Parulski is an expert consultant to mobile imaging companies and leads the development of ISO standards for digital photography. He joined Kodak in 1980 after graduating from MIT and retired in 2012 as research fellow and chief scientist in Kodak's digital photography division. His work has been recognized with a Technical Emmy and other major awards. Parulski is a SMPTE fellow and an inventor on more than 225 US patents.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

Immersive Experiences

Moderator: Ian McDowall, Intuitive Surgical / Fakespace Labs (United States)
Session Chair: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States)
13:30 – 14:30
Green Room

This session is jointly sponsored by: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2021, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXXII.


13:30ERVR-167
Interdisciplinary immersive experiences within artistic research, social and cognitive sciences, Adnan Hadzi, University of Malta (Malta)

14:10ERVR-168
Predicting VR discomfort, Vasilii Marshev, Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, and Vincent Nourrit, IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire - Campus de Brest (France)



14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Conference Introduction

Moderator: Ian McDowall, Intuitive Surgical / Fakespace Labs (United States)
Session Chair: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States)
18:00 – 18:15
Green Room

VR and 3D Applications

Moderator: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States)
Session Chair: Ian McDowall, Intuitive Surgical / Fakespace Labs (United States)
18:15 – 19:15
Green Room

This session is jointly sponsored by: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2021, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXXII.


18:15ERVR-177
Situational awareness of COVID pandemic data using virtual reality, Sharad Sharma, Bowie State University (United States)

18:35ERVR-178
Virtual reality instructional (VRI) module for training and patient safety, Sharad Sharma, Bowie State University (United States)

18:55ERVR-179
Server-aided 3D DICOM viewer for mobile platforms, Menghe Zhang and Jürgen Schulze, University of California San Diego (United States)



CONFERENCE INTERACTIVE POSTERS, DEMONSTRATIONS, AND BREAK

19:15 – 19:45
see below for location

Posters and/or Demonstrations presented live during this break are related to any of the conferences held today. Zoom links to visit the posters and/or demonstrations are found on the home page of the Symposium Portal. We invite you to visit with the presenters in the designated Zoom or meet with other attendees in Discord.


ERVR-179D
ZOOM A — ERVR DEMO: "Server-aided 3D DICOM viewer for mobile platforms", Menghe Zhang and Jürgen Schulze, University of California San Diego (United States)

In the ERVR demo, following up the oral presentation of the same title, Menghe Zhang will present the DICOM Viewer application on a Samsung s10 device. The process includes browsing/loading data, user interaction, and share view with the app on other devices.

HVEI-155
ZOOM B — HVEI POSTER: Scrambling parameter generation to improve perceptual information hiding, Koki Madono1,2, Masayuki Tanaka2,3, Masaki Onishi2, and Tetsuji Ogawa1; 1Waseda Daigaku, 2The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and 3Tokyo Kogyo Daigaku (Japan)



Monday 25 January 2021

PLENARY: Making Invisible Visible

Session Chair: Jonathan B. Phillips, Google Inc. (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Making invisible visible
Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab (United States)

Ramesh Raskar is an associate professor at MIT Media Lab and directs the Camera Culture research group. His focus is on AI and imaging for health and sustainability. They span research in physical (e.g., sensors, health-tech), digital (e.g., automated and privacy-aware machine learning), and global (e.g., geomaps, autonomous mobility) domains. He received the Lemelson Award (2016), ACM SIGGRAPH Achievement Award (2017), DARPA Young Faculty Award (2009), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), TR100 Award from MIT Technology Review (2004), and Global Indus Technovator Award (2003). He has worked on special research projects at Google [X] and Facebook and co-founded/advised several companies.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

Wednesday 27 January 2021

PLENARY: Revealing the Invisible to Machines with Neuromorphic Vision Systems: Technology and Applications Overview

Session Chair: Radka Tezaur, Intel Corporation (United States)
10:00 – 11:10
Plenary Room

Revealing the invisible to machines with neuromorphic vision systems: Technology and applications overview
Luca Verre, CEO and Co-Founder at Prophesee (France)

Luca Verre is co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Verre is a World Economic Forum technology pioneer. His experience includes project and product management, marketing, and business development roles at Schneider Electric. Prior to Schneider Electric, Verre worked as a research assistant in photonics at the Imperial College of London. Verre holds a MSc in physics, electronic and industrial engineering from Politecnico di Milano and Ecole Centrale and an MBA from Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires, INSEAD.


11:10 – 11:40 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

13:00 – 13:30 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

14:30 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.

19:15 – 19:45 SESSION BREAK: Join speakers in the EI2021 Discord Voice Channel corresponding to the color of the room in which the session occurs or join an Open Discord Channel of your choice. After a plenary, join the Plenary Discord Voice Channel.

19:15 – 19:45 Women-in-Engineering Speed Networking (Evening) - take a break from technical sessions to make new connections and greet old friends. Look for the ZOOM link in Discord #announcements.

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