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Student Posters
Industry Technology Demos
Student Technology Demos
Industry Speakers
UNC Faculty Speakers

Agenda

Wednesday, October 14

5:00 p.m. Registration Opens
5:15 p.m. Opening Remarks
5:30 p.m. Industry Tech Demos and Hors D’oeuvres
7:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner

Thursday, October 15

8:30 a.m. Introduction to CV2R
Displays & Content
8:45 a.m. “Computational Displays for Virtual & Augmented Reality” by David Luebke (NVIDIA)
9:25 a.m. “Immersive Telecollaboration” by Henry Fuchs (UNC)
9:45 a.m. Poster Fast Forwards (Displays & Content)
10:00 a.m. Break & Student Posters/Demos
Multimodal Interaction
& Simulation
10:30 a.m. “Audio Production and Delivery Challenges for VR” by Nicolas Tsingos (Dolby)
11:00 a.m. “Interactive Sound Simulation and Immersive Audio for VR/AR” by Dinesh Manocha (UNC)
11:20 a.m. “Reality-based Multimodal Interaction & Simulation for Virtual Worlds” by Ming Lin (UNC)
11:40 p.m. Panel Discussion & Brainstorming
12:15 p.m. Poster Fast Forwards (Multimodal Interaction & Simulation)
12:30 p.m. Lunch and Student Posters/Demos
Computer Vision
1:50 p.m. “Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction” by Vladlen Koltun (Intel)
2:30 p.m. “Beyond Static Large-scale Reconstruction” by Jan-Michael Frahm (UNC)
2:50 p.m. “Future Directions for Recognition” by Alex Berg (UNC)
3:10 p.m. Poster Fast Forwards (Computer Vision & Graphics)
3:30 p.m. Break & Student Posters/Demos
4:00 p.m. “Immersive Mixed Reality with the RoomAlive Toolkit” by Andy Wilson (Microsoft)
4:40 p.m. “Evolving Graphics Engine Design for VR” by Timothy Lottes (AMD)
5:00 p.m. Panel Discussion & Brainstorming
5:30 p.m. Poster Fast Forwards (Computer Vision)
5:45 p.m. Posters/Demos & Social
7:00 p.m. Dinner

Friday, October 16

8:30 a.m. Brief Remarks
Vision & People
8:40 a.m. “Towards Social Presence” by Yaser Sheikh (Oculus)
9:20 a.m. “Human-Centric Recognition” by Tamara Berg (UNC)
9:40 a.m. “The Other Display” by Turner Whitted (NVIDIA & UNC)
10:00 a.m. Break & Posters/Demos
VR for the Masses
10:30 a.m. “Google Cardboard: VR for Everybody” by Luke Ninlen and Pierre Fitte-Georgel (Google)
11:00 a.m. “Playstation VR” by Steve Osman (Sony)
11:20 a.m. “Controlling Reality” by Tracy McSheery (Phasespace)
11:40 p.m. “HMD in Pocket” by David Smith (Wearality)
12:00 p.m. Discussion & Concluding Remarks
12:30 p.m. Lunch