Saturday 16 January 2021
2021 SD&A 3D Theater Session
Hosts:
Eric Kurland, 3-D SPACE (United States); John Stern, retired (United States); and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
19:30 – 21:30
YouTube SD&A 2021 Playlist
- Streaming 3 times to accommodate world time zones in full 3D for home viewing; not available on-demand.
- View on a compatible 3D TV or with standard red-cyan anaglyph 3D glasses
- Family-friendly content
- Program is a retrospective of the “Best-of-Show” winners from the past decade
- FREE, but you must register to get the link
- Generously organized by members of the SD&A committee
- Questions or issues—contact 3dsubmission / about3d.info
Sunday 17 January 2021
2021 SD&A 3D Theater Session
Hosts:
Eric Kurland, 3-D SPACE (United States); John Stern, retired (United States); and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
05:30 – 07:30
YouTube SD&A 2021 Playlist
This perennially popular session of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference showcases the wide variety of 3D films produced and exhibited around the world. It is open to the public and all attendees of the Electronic Imaging symposium, SD&A’s parent. Since this year’s conference will be 100% online, the 3D Theater Session will stream in full 3D for home viewing. We will break from the tradition of screening only recent 3D films, and instead screen a retrospective of our Best-of-Show award winners from the past decade. This family-friendly event is suitable for viewing either on a compatible 3D TV or with standard red-cyan anaglyph 3D glasses (provide your own). The 3D Theater Session will live-stream at three appropriate times in order to accommodate conference attendees in the Americas, Europe, and Asia starting Saturday January 16, but will not otherwise be available on-demand. Registration is available for this free event via Eventbrite.
2021 SD&A 3D Theater Session
Hosts:
Eric Kurland, 3-D SPACE (United States); John Stern, retired (United States); and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
13:30 – 15:30
YouTube SD&A 2021 Playlist
This perennially popular session of the annual Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference showcases the wide variety of 3D films produced and exhibited around the world. It is open to the public and all attendees of the Electronic Imaging symposium, SD&A’s parent. Since this year’s conference will be 100% online, the 3D Theater Session will stream in full 3D for home viewing. We will break from the tradition of screening only recent 3D films, and instead screen a retrospective of our Best-of-Show award winners from the past decade. This family-friendly event is suitable for viewing either on a compatible 3D TV or with standard red-cyan anaglyph 3D glasses (provide your own). The 3D Theater Session will live-stream at three appropriate times in order to accommodate conference attendees in the Americas, Europe, and Asia starting Saturday January 16, but will not otherwise be available on-demand. Registration is available for this free event via Eventbrite.
Monday 18 January 2021
SD&A Invited Session
Moderator:
Gregg Favalora, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (United States)
Session Chair:
Nicolas Holliman, University of Newcastle (United Kingdom)
10:00 – 11:15
Green Room
10:00
Conference Introduction
10:15SD&A-049
Looking back at a wonderful decade shooting live-action 3D (Invited), Demetri Portelli, I.A.T.S.E. International Cinematographer's Guild (Canada)
Invited speaker Demetri Portelli is known for his live action stereography. He has more than 25 years of technical camera experience as a member of the IATSE, the International Cinematographer’s Guild. He is also a camera operator and a technician. He was trained in fine arts, worked extensively in the theatre growing up, taught himself cameras with Super8mm, 16mm, and 35mm shorts and music videos before his professional career started. In his role as stereographer and stereo supervisor, Portelli is hands-on during shooting and post-production. He is extremely precise executing stereo on-the-fly, with IO adjustments to ‘bake-in’ the best possible 3D depth, volumetric shape, and audience proximity. Working alongside the director and cinematographer, his goal is always to design a truly engaging 3D experience from depth planning to shot conception, and through post-production with VFX stereo comps, final geometry checks, and creative convergence placement during the grade.
10:45SD&A-050
When 3D headache will be over: A decade of movie quality measurements (Invited), Dmitriy Vatolin, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)
Invited speaker Dmitriy Vatolin received his PhD from Moscow State University (2000) and is currently head of the Video Group at the CS MSU Graphics & Media Lab. His research interests include compression methods, video processing, and 3D-video techniques (depth from motion, focus and other cues, video matting, background restoration, and high-quality stereo generation), as well as 3D-video quality assessment (metrics for 2D-to-3D-conversion artifacts, temporal asynchrony, swapped views, and more). He is a chief organizer of the VQMT3D project for 3D-video quality measurement.
11:15 – 11:45 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.
Stereoscopic Developments
Moderator:
Nicolas Holliman, University of Newcastle (United Kingdom)
Session Chair:
Gregg Favalora, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (United States)
11:45 – 12:45
Green Room
11:45SD&A-054
Light field rendering for non-Lambertian objects, Sarah Fachada1, Daniele Bonatto1,2, Mehrdad Teratani1, and Gauthier Lafruit1; 1Universite Libre de Bruxelles and 2Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
12:05SD&A-055
Custom on-axis head-mounted eye tracker for 3D active glasses, Vincent Nourrit1, Rémi Poilane2, and Jean-Louis de Bougrenet de la Tocnaye1; 1IMT Atlantique Bretagne-Pays de la Loire - Campus de Brest and 2E3S (France)
12:25SD&A-056
Immersive design engineering, Part 2 – The review (Talk only), Bjorn Sommer, Chang Lee, Nat Martin, and Savina Toirrisi, Royal College of Art (United Kingdom)
Stereoscopic Displays, Cameras, and Algorithms
Moderator:
Gregg Favalora, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (United States)
Session Chair:
Nicolas Holliman, University of Newcastle (United Kingdom)
13:15 – 14:35
Green Room
13:15SD&A-057
Near eye mirror anamorphosis display, Kedrick Brown, Lightscope Media LLC (United States)
13:35SD&A-058
Hybrid stereoscopic photography – Two vintage analogue cameras meet the digital age, Bjorn Sommer, Royal College of Art (United Kingdom)
13:55SD&A-059
A new hybrid stereo disparity estimation algorithm with guided image filtering-based cost aggregation, Hanieh Shabanian and Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian, The University of Memphis (United States)
14:15SD&A-350
Stereoscopic quality assessment of 1,000 VR180 videos using 8 metrics, Dmitriy Vatolin, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russian Federation)
14:15 – 18:00 Break in program to accommodate time zones.
Autostereoscopic Displays
Moderator:
Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
Session Chair:
Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
18:00 – 19:15
Green Room
18:00
Conference Introduction
18:15SD&A-010
Holographic display utilizing scalable array of edge-emitting SAW modulators, Gregg Favalora, Michael Moebius, John LeBlanc, Valerie Bloomfield, Joy Perkinson, James Hsiao, Sean O'Connor, Dennis Callahan, William Sawyer, Francis Rogomentich, and Steven Byrnes, The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc. (United States)
18:35SD&A-011
Towards AO/EO modulators in lithium niobate for dual-axis holographic displays, Mitchell Adams, Caitlin Bingham, and Daniel Smalley, Brigham Young University (United States)
18:55SD&A-012
Enhancing angular resolution of layered light-field display by using monochrome layers, Kotaro Matsuura, Keita Takahashi, and Toshiaki Fujii, Nagoya University (Japan)
KEYNOTE: Underwater 3D
Moderator: Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
Session Chair: Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
19:45 – 20:45
Green Room
SD&A-029
KEYNOTE: Underwater 3D system for ultra-high resolution imaging, Pawel Achtel, Achtel Pty Limited (Australia)
Cinematographer and inventor, keynote speaker Pawel Achtel, ACS, will explain some of the challenges we face in 3D underwater cinematography and how his breakthrough innovation made it to the set of one of the most anticipated Hollywood blockbuster movies. Underwater flat ports and dome ports, a compromise we’ve all come to expect and live with since the advent of underwater photography, substantially limit underwater image quality as camera resolutions increased. Additional constraints on the size of the underwater optics used in Stereoscopic 3D setups further impacted the quality of images down to approximately standard definition levels. Submersible lenses are now the industry’s gold standard and combined with Achtel’s invention, a submersible beam-splitter, allow images so much in advance of other solutions that the results are as good as or even better as those achieved on land. Achtel uses his scientific approach where almost every aspect of image quality is meticulously measured, compared, and ultimately improved. This leads to measurable outcomes that can be objectively quantified. Achtel also holds a Master’s degree in engineering, which allowed him to design one of the most advanced underwater 3D system ever built. His company's patented 3D beam-splitter was recently used extensively on James Cameron’s latest Avatar sequels, in New Zealand, prompting the legendary Hollywood director to write that the results were the best underwater 3D images he’d ever seen, by far. Indeed, his underwater 3D system is capable of resolving 8K corner-to-corner measured resolution on screen and without any distortions, aberrations, or image plane curvature. It is the world’s first. Achtel will share some of his insights on what to expect from underwater images when Avatar 2 hits the screens in 2022.
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.
Stereoscopic Content and Quality
Moderator:
Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
Session Chair:
Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
18:00 – 19:15
Green Room
18:00
Conference Introduction
18:15SD&A-098
Evaluating user experience of different angle VR images, Yoshihiro Banchi and Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
18:35SD&A-099
JIST-first: Crosstalk minimization method for eye-tracking based 3D display, Seok Lee, Juyong Park, and Dongkyung Nam, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (Republic of Korea)
18:55SD&A-100
Sourcing and qualifying passive polarised 3D TVs, Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
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.
ISS-072
ZOOM A — ISS POSTER: Estimation of any fields of lens PSFs for image simulation, Sangmin Kim1, Daekwan Kim1, Kilwoo Chung1, and JoonSeo Yim2; 1Samsung Electronics Device Solutions and 2Samsung Electronics (Republic of Korea)
SD&A-100D
ZOOM B — SD&A DEMO: "Sourcing and qualifying passive polarised 3D TVs", Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
Andrew Woods will demonstrate how to source and qualify passive polarized 3D TVs.
KEYNOTE: Digital Stereoscopic Microscopy
Moderator: Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)
Session Chair: Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)
19:45 – 20:45
Green Room
SD&A-088
KEYNOTE: Resolution limitations in digital stereoscopic microscopy, Michael Weissman, SB3D Technologies, Inc. (United States)
Keynote speaker Michael Weissman, PhD, founder of TrueVision Systems, Inc., is a technical visionary and entrepreneur with more than 40 years of R&D experience. As one of the world’s leading stereoscopic experts, Weissman has been developing 3D stereoscopic video systems for more than 25 years. His 3D systems have traveled two miles under the sea, into radioactive waste sites, and into hospital operating rooms.
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.
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)
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.