Overall Program

Registration 

08:30 - 10:00

Coffee 

09:30 - 10:00

AOM workshop - Session 1

10:00 - 12:00

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Lunch

12:00 - 13:00

Location: De Krook Café

AOM workshop - Session 2

13:00 - 14:30

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Qualinet meeting - Session 1

15:00 - 16:30

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Coffee break

16:30 - 17:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Qualinet meeting - Session 2

17:00 - 18:30

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Walking guided tour (Sponsored by Synamedia)

17:30 - 19:00

Location: Front entrance of De Krook

AOM workshop reception

19:00 - ...

Location: Ray

Registration and coffee

08:30 - 09:00

Opening address

09:00 - 09:45

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Oral Session 1: QoE in the era of Big Data and Deep Learning

09:45 - 10:30

Session Chair: Markus Fiedler

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Evaluation of Image Quality Assessment Metrics for Semantic Segmentation in a Machine-to-Machine Communication Scenario

Alban Marie, Karol Desnos, Luce Morin and Lu Zhang

Explainable Data-Driven QoE Modelling with XAI

Nikolas Wehner, Anika Seufert, Tobias Hoßfeld and Michael Seufert

Measuring and predicting perceptions of video quality across screen sizes with crowdsourcing

Christos Bampis, Lukáš Krasula, Zhi Li and Omair Akhtar

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Keynote 1: Marisa Carrasco-Queijeiro - How Attention shapes Perception

11:00 - 12:00

Session Chair: Maria Torres Vega

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Lunch

12:00 - 13:00

Location: De Krook Café

Oral Session 2: Sustainability (SS5) and QoE Methodologies

13:00 - 14:30

Session Chair: Christian Herglotz 

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Are Quality and Sustainability Reconcilable? A Subjective Study on Video QoE, Luminance and Resolution

Gulnaziye Bingol, Alessandro Floris, Simone Porcu, Christian Timmerer and Luigi Atzori

Towards a symmetrical definition of QoE: An Evaluation of Emotion Semantics in Augmented Reality Training

Eoghan Hynes, MSc, Ronan Flynn, Brian Lee and Niall Murray

The Transmission Rating Scale and its Relation to Subjective Scores

Pablo Pérez

Relaxed forced choice improves performance of visual quality assessment methods

Mohsen Jenadeleh, Johannes Zagermann, Harald Reiterer, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Raouf Hamzaoui and Dietmar Saupe

A Scoring Model Considering the Variability of Subjects' Characteristics in Subjective Experiments

Lohic Fotio Tiotsop, Antonio Servetti and Enrico Masala

Experiment Precision Measures and Methods for Experiment Comparisons

Lucjan Janowski, Jakub T. Nawała, Tobias Hoßfeld and Michael Seufert

Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Oral Session 3: Image Quality and Ecological Validity (SS7)

15:00 - 16:00

Session Chair: Marta Orduna

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

JPEG AIC-3 Dataset: Towards Defining the High Quality to Nearly Visually Lossless Quality Range

Michela Testolina, Vlad Hosu, Mohsen Jenadeleh, Davi Lazzarotto, Dietmar Saupe and Touradj Ebrahimi

Localization of Just Noticeable Difference for Image Compression

Guangan Chen, Hanhe Lin, Oliver Wiedemann and Dietmar Saupe

The Role of Theoretical Models in Ecologically Valid Studies: The Example of a Video Quality of Experience Model

Kamil Koniuch, Lucjan Janowski, Katrien De Moor, Michał Wierzchoń and Sruti Subramanian

Content-immersive Subjective Quality Assessment in Long Duration 360-degree Videos

Marta Orduna, Pablo Pérez, Jesús Gutiérrez and Narciso García

Madness Session 1

16:00 - 16:15

Session Chair: Jeroen van Der Hooft

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Poster and Demo Session 1

16:00 - 17:30

Session Chair: Jeroen van Der Hooft

Location: De Krook (Rooms: De Blauwe Vogel/ Vos & Haas)

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Power Reduction Opportunities on End-User Devices in Quality-Steady Video Streaming

Christian Herglotz, Werner Robitza, Alexander Raake, Tobias Hoßfeld and Andre Kaup

DNN-based Photography Rule Prediction using Photo Tags

Steve Göring, Rasmus Merten and Alexander Raake

Impact of Quality and Distance on the Perception of Point Clouds in Mixed Reality

Minh Nguyen, Shivi Vats, Sam Van Damme, Jeroen van der Hooft, Maria Torres Vega, Tim Wauters, Christian Timmerer and Hermann Hellwagner

Human Interaction in Industrial Tele-Operated Driving: Laboratory Investigation

Shirin Rafiei, Chetna Singhal, Kjell Brunnström and Mårten Sjöström

An Initiative Toward an Enhanced Industry-Reported Comfort, Accessibility, and Safety Rating System for VR Applications

Sara Vlahovic, Lea Skorin-Kapov and Zeljka Car

ALTRUIST: A Multi-platform Tool for Conducting QoE Subjective Tests

Henrique Rossi, Karan Mitra, Christer Åhlund, Niclas Ögren, Irina Cotanis and Per Johansson

Training the DNN of a Single Observer by Conducting Individualized Subjective Experiments

Pavel Majer, Lohic Fotio Tiotsop and Marcus Barkowsky

NeRF-QA: Neural Radiance Fields Quality Assessment Database

Pedro Martin, António J. Rodrigues, João Ascenso and Maria Paula Queluz

Datasheet for Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment Datasets

Nabajeet Barman, Yuriy Reznik and Maria G. Martini

Appeal and quality assessment for AI-generated images

Steve Göring, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Rasmus Merten and Alexander Raake

Quality Upshifting with Auxiliary I-Frame Splicing

Mehmet N Akcay, Burak Kara, Ali C. Begen, Saba Ahsan, Igor D.D. Curcio, Kashyap Kammachi Sreedhar and Emre Aksu

CaliBrainVR: Using Psycho-physiological Measures to Calibrate Virtual Reality Training 

Aleksandra Zheleva, Jonas De Bruyne, Wouter Durnez, Sam Van De Walle, Siemon Verreyken, Jelle Demanet and Klaas Bombeke

Data Collection Framework for End-to-End Radio and Transport Network Quality Monitoring

Gergely Dobreff, Mark Szalay, Bence Ladoczki, Marton Molnar, László Varga, Attila Bader and Alija Pašić

The Role of Theoretical Models in Ecologically Valid Studies: The Example of a Video Quality of Experience Model

Kamil Koniuch, Lucjan Janowski, Katrien De Moor, Michał Wierzchoń and Sruti Subramanian

Towards a symmetrical definition of QoE: An Evaluation of Emotion Semantics in Augmented Reality Training

Eoghan Hynes, MSc, Ronan Flynn, Brian Lee and Niall Murray

A Platform for Subjective Quality Assessment in Mixed Reality Environments

Shivi Vats, Minh Nguyen, Sam Van Damme, Jeroen van der Hooft, Maria Torres Vega, Tim Wauters, Christian Timmerer and Hermann Hellwagner

Welcome reception

19:00 - ...

Location: Artevelde Brewery

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Registration and coffee

08:30 - 09:00

Oral Session 4: Immersive experiences (SS6) and Biologically inspired multimedia processing (SS2)

09:00 - 10:30

Session Chairs: Tanja Kojic, Saeed Mahmoudpour 

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Modeling Quality of Experience for Compressed Point Cloud Sequences based on a Subjective Study

Jannis Weil, Yassin Alkhalili, Anam Tahir, Thomas Gruczyk, Tobias Meuser, Mu Mu, Heinz Koeppl and Andreas U. Mauthe

Immersive and Interactive Subjective Quality Assessment of Dynamic Volumetric Meshes

Sam Van Damme, Imen Mahdi, Hemanth Kumar Ravuri, Jeroen van der Hooft, Filip De Turck and Maria Torres Vega

Evaluation of point cloud features for no-reference visual quality assessment

Gwennan Smitskamp, Irene Viola and Pablo Cesar

On the Correspondence between Human Vision and Convolutional Neural Networks: A Visual Quality Assessment Perspective

Saeed Mahmoudpour and Peter Schelkens

Evaluating Quality of Visual Explanations of Deep Learning Models for Vision Tasks

Yuqing Yang, Saeed Mahmoudpour, Peter Schelkens and Nikos Deligiannis

Photoplethysmogram Signal Quality Assessment via 1D-to-2D Projections and Vision Transformers

Pedro Garcia Freitas, Rafael G de Lima, Giovani Decico Lucafo and Otavio Penatti

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Keynote 2: Daniel Schien - Challenging Perceptions: The Carbon Emissions of Video Streaming

11:00 - 12:00

Session Chair: Tobias Hossfeld

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Lunch

12:00 - 13:00

Location: De Krook Café

Oral Session 5: Advancements in medical image quality assessment (SS1)

13:00 - 14:00

Session Chair: Meriem Outtass 

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Protect and Extend - Using GANs for Synthetic Data Generation of Time-Series Medical Records

Navid Ashrafi, Vera Schmitt, Robert P. Spang, Sebastian Möller and Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

A Transformer Attention-based Method for Quality Assessment of Rhythmically Abnormal ECG

Zijia Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Xuefei Song, Jun Zhou, Jiangen Liu and Guangtao Zhai

Impact of Radiologist Experience on Medical Image Quality Perception

Yueran Ma, Jean-Yves Tanguy, Richard White, Padraig Corcoran and Hantao Liu

Denoised CT Images Quality Assessment Through COVID-19 Pneumonia Detection Task

Lumi Xia, Houda Jebbari, Olivier Deforges, Lucie Lévêque, Lu Zhang and Meriem Outtas

Madness Session 2

14:00 - 14:15

Session Chair: Aleksandra Zheleva, Sam Van Damme

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

Poster Session 2

14:15 - 16:00

Session Chair: Aleksandra Zheleva, Sam Van Damme

Location: De Krook (Rooms: De Blauwe Vogel/ Vos & Haas)

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On Interpolation of Subjective Rate-Distortion Curves for Video Coder Comparison

Fabian Brand, Christian Herglotz and Andre Kaup

Exploring users' sense of safety in public using an Augmented Reality application

Maurizio Vergari, Tanja Kojic, Nicole Bertges, Francesco Vona, Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons and Sebastian Möller

Recommendations For Verifying HDR Subjective Testing Workflows

Vibhoothi Vibhoothi, Angeliki Katsenou, John Squires, Francois Pitie and Anil Kokaram

On the Perception of Frame Stalls in Remote VR for Task and Task-Free Subjective Tests

Thi My Chinh Chu, Markus Fiedler, Viktor Kelkkanen, David Lindero and Hans-Juergen Zepernick

Comparison of Constant Rate Factor and Constant Bitrate Mode Encoding for rPPG Detection

Benjamin Tilbury, Miguel Arevalillo-Herráez and Naeem Ramzan

Influence of Viewing Distances on 8K HDR Video Quality Perception

Dominik Keller, Felix von Hagen, Julius Prenzel, Kay Strama, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao and Alexander Raake

Large-Scale Multi-Site Subjective Assessment on Image Banding Artifacts

Yuanyi Xue, Roberto Azevedo, Xuchang Huangfu, Christopher Schroers, Yang Zhang and Scott C Labrozzi

Predicting Preferred Dialogue-to-Background Loudness Difference in Dialogue-Separated Audio

Luca Resti, Martin Strauss, Matteo Torcoli, Emanuël Habets and Bernd Edler

Differential QoE in Picture-in-Picture Gaming Videos: A Subjective Study

Tomasz Lyko, Yehia Elkhatib, Rajiv Ramdhany and Nicholas Race

Comparing Simulated and Real Conversations for QoE Assessments: Insights from ARKit-Based Facial Configuration Analyses

Robert P. Spang, Wafaa Wardah, Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller

Unraveling the Hangry Rater: Non-linear Effects of Hunger on Multimedia Quality Perception

Robert P. Spang, Wafaa Wardah, Vera Schmitt and Sebastian Möller

An evaluation of hand interaction metaphors for immersive environments

Mustafa Tevfik Lafci, Sebastian Bosse, Paul Chojecki and Robert Strzebkowski

Dataset of Subjective Assessment for Visually Near-Lossless Image Coding based on Just Noticeable Difference

Soichiro Honda, Yoshihiro Maeda and Norishige Fukushima

Revisiting Videoconferencing QoE: Impact of Network Delay and Resolution as Factors for Social Cue Perceptibility

Chenyao Diao, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao and Alexander Raake

UVG-VPC: Voxelized Point Cloud Dataset for Visual Volumetric Video-based Coding

Guillaume Gautier, Alexandre Mercat, Louis Fréneau, Mikko Pitkänen and Jarno Vanne

Automatic Audiovisual Asynchrony Measurement for Quality Assessment of Videoconferencing

Florian Braun, Werner Robitza, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao and Alexander Raake

Diversity panel

16:00 - 17:00

Session Chairs: Sebastian Möller, Sruti Subramanian

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Boat trip to the Oudevismijn

18:30 - 19:30

Location: De Krook

Banquet dinner

19:30 - ...

Location: Oude Vismijn

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Registration and coffee

09:00 - 09:30

Oral Session 6: Datasets

09:30 - 10:30

Session Chair: Lea Skorin-Kapov

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

PNATS-UHD-1-Long: An Open Video Quality Dataset for Long Sequences for HTTP-based Adaptive Streaming QoE Assessment

Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Silvio Borer, David Lindero, Steve Göring and Alexander Raake

Open access dataset of holographic videos for codec analysis and machine learning applications

Antonin Gilles, Patrick Gioia, Nabil Madali, Anas El Rhammad and Luce Morin

Saliency of Omnidirectional Videos with Different Audio Presentations: Analyses and Dataset

Ashutosh Singla, Thomas Robotham, Abhinav Bhattacharya, William Menz, Emanuël Habets and Alexander Raake

A Subjective Dataset for Multi-Screen Video Streaming Applications

Nabajeet Barman, Yuriy Reznik and Maria G. Martini

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Keynote 3: Mariek Vanden Abeele - Disconnect to Reconnect? The Science Behind Digital Well-being and Digital Disconnection

11:00 - 12:00

Session Chair: Katrien De Moor

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Lunch

12:00 - 13:00

Location: De Krook Café

Oral Session 7: Multisensory Experiences (SS8)

13:00 - 14:00

Session Chair: Irene Viola

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

A Comparison of Gender Differences and Performance Metrics in a VR-Based Auditory Selective Task

Adrielle Nazar Moraes, Ronan Flynn, Andrew Hines and Niall Murray

An Investigation of the Influence of Ambient Noise on User Experience in Virtual Reality

Tanja Kojic, Maurizio Vergari, Francesco Vona, Sebastian Möller and Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Physiological Synchrony in a Collaborative Virtual Reality Task

Bhagyabati Moharana, Conor Keighrey and Niall Murray

Are we ready for Haptic Interactivity in VR? An Experimental Comparison of Different Interaction Methods in Virtual Reality Training

Sam Van Damme, Jordy Tack, Glenn Van Wallendael, Filip De Turck and Maria Torres Vega

Closing session

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

14:00 - 14:30

PhD Event Session 1 - From your PhD to your CV

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

14:30 - 17:00

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PhD Event Session 2 - Networking

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

17:00 - 18:30

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After-party

Location: Afkikker

19:00 - ...

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Coffee & networking

09:30 - 10:00

Sustainability & QoE-Management Workshop - Session 1

10:00 - 12:00

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Lunch

12:00 - 13:00

Location: De Krook Café

Sustainability & QoE-Management Workshop - Session 2

13:00 - 14:30

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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Coffee break

14:30 - 15:00

Location: De Krook (Room: Vos & Haas)

Sustainability & QoE-Management Workshop - Closing

15:00 - 15:30

Location: De Krook (Room: De Blauwe Vogel)

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