Best Student Research Seminars
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IS&T offers students who receive best paper conference awards an opportunity to give a free online presentation related to the work discussed in their proceedings paper (click on title to view paper). These seminars are recorded for later viewing.
Upcoming Seminars
IS&T EI2026 Conferences: ERVE & AVM
Session Chair: Robin Jenkin, NVIDIA, CA, US
Virtual Reality in Engineering Education: Applications, Trends, and Challenges
Conference: ERVR
Rojin Manouchehri, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, US
This talk presents a scoping review of virtual reality applications in engineering education, based on 32 peer-reviewed studies published between 2012 and 2025.
ISET-LFM: A Simulation Framework and Dataset for LED Flicker in Automotive Imaging
Conference: AVM
Ayush Jamdar, University of California San Diego, US
ISET-LFM is a physics-based simulation framework that combines analytical flicker models with physically based rendering (PBRT) to accurately model LED flicker artifacts caused by pulse-width modulation, enabling the generation of datasets for training machine learning models and evaluating emerging automotive imaging sensors.
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Past Seminars (Recordings Coming Soon)
IS&T EI2026 Conferences: SDA & ISS
Session Chair: Natsuko Minegishi
Basic Characteristics of Body-Visual Interaction in Mixed Reality Environments
Conference: SDA
Yusuke Ohira, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
This study examines how three virtual object characteristics—interactivity, transparency, and size—in mixed reality environments influence users’ sense of presence and behaviors such as avoidance and displacement of virtual objects.
A 72-dB SNR 1K-fps Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor With Dual Pixel Reset Voltage and Programmable Gain Amplifier
Conference: ISS
Kota Ogino, Kuroda Laboratory, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
This work presents a global-shutter CMOS image sensor that achieves high-speed, high-SNR imaging at a 1K-fps-equivalent frame rate, using a dual pixel reset voltage scheme and programmable gain amplifier to enhance image quality for dynamic fluid absorption imaging.
IS&T EI2026 Conferences: IQSP & IMAGE
Session Chair: Sophie Triantaphillidou
Perceptual Thresholds of Facial Lighting Chromaticity in Virtual Environments
Conference: IQSP
Xinmiao Zhang, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, US
Lighting chromaticity plays a critical role in the visual perception of rendered content embedded within virtual scenes.
Dual-Stream Feature Disentanglement Network for Single Domain Generalized Facial Expression Recognition
Conference: IMAGE
Ningyu Chen — Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China
Facial expression recognition often struggles with performance drops when faced with new, unseen data. To solve this, we introduce the Dual-Stream Feature Disentanglement Network (DFD-Net).
IS&T EI2026 Conferences: HVEI & GENAI
Session Chair: Marius Pederson
The Impact of Blur on Motion Parallax and Binocular Disparity
Conference: HVEI
Sophie Kergaßner, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
This talk investigates how spatial blur influences motion-based depth perception and compares the findings with binocular disparity studies.
Adapting DeQA-Score for Attribute-Specific Portrait Quality Assessment
Conference: GENAI
Yujin Cho, ENS Paris-Saclay
This presentation explores adapting DeQA-Score for explainable portrait quality assessment using lightweight LoRA fine-tuning and perceptual JOD annotations.
HDR Color Difference and Color Appearance