THANK YOU!
The 16th EuroVR International Conference—EuroVR 2019—took place in Tallinn, Estonia on 23-25 October 2019, following Bremen (2014), Lecco (2015), Athens (2016), Laval (2017), and London (2018). This conference series began as part of the INTUITION Network of Excellence in Virtual and Augmented Reality supported by the European Commission from 2004 to 2008 and continued as the Joint Virtual Reality Conferences (JVRC) of EuroVR, EGVE and ICAT from 2009 to 2013. The 2019 conference was organized by Estonian members of the European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (EuroVR), namely the TalTech Mektory team at Tallinn University of Technology.
TOPICS
Technologies
Technologies related to Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR), collaborative and distributed environments, mobile devices, 3D rendering issues, real-time modeling and simulation, multimodal interaction, use cases.
Human factor issues
User studies and evaluation, presence and cognition, 3D user interfaces and interaction metaphors, self-representation and embodiement, virtual humans, sickness and side effects, realism, validity and fidelity, cost effectiveness and efficiency.
Important Dates
For Scientific track the deadlines are:
Scientific Full paper submissions: June 3, 2019 June 28, 2019 23:59 CEST
Scientific Poster paper submissions: June 28, 2019 July 3, 2019 23:59 CEST
Notification to authors for all Scientific contributions: July 12, 2019 July 19, 2019
Camera-ready for accepted Scientific contributions: July 29, 2019 23:59 CEST
Applications
Applications of VR/AR/MR in industry, architecture, manufacturing and engineering, medical and rehabilitation, consumer neuroscience, organizational neuroscience,process and product design, training and education, serious gaming and edutainment.
For the Application track the deadlines are:
Short abstract submissions: Aug 9, 2019
Notification to the authors: Sept 6, 2019
Camera ready: Sept 13, 2019
You are sincerely invited to take part in the event and add the dates directly to your Outlook, Windows 10 Calendar or Apple Mac Calendar as an event or to Google Calendar.
COMMITTEES CHAIRS
General Chairs
Tauno Otto (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Krzysztof Walczak (Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland)
Hirokazu Kato (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
International Program Committee (IPC) Chairs
Patrick Bourdot (VENISE/LIMSI, CNRS, France)
Victoria Interrante (University of Minnesota, USA)
Luciana Nedel (University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab, Switzerland & Institute for Media Innovation (IMI) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Industrial Chairs
Jérome Perret (Haption, France & Germany)
Vladimir Kuts (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Matthieu Poyade (GSA, UK)
Christoph Runde (VDC, Germany)
Demo and Exhibition Chairs
Eduard Petlenkov (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Jakub Flotyński (Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poland
Giannis Karaseitanidis (ICCS, Greece)
Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona (University of Malaga, Spain)
Poster Chairs
Gabriel Zachmann (University of Bremen, Germany)
Lorenzo Picinali (Imperial College London, UK)
Maud Marchal (IRISA-INSA Rennes, France)
Huyen Nguyen (EPICentre, UNSW Art & Design, Australia)
Dirk Reiners (University of Arkansas, USA
Posters Chair contact: eurovr_posters_2019@cs.uni-bremen.de
Organization team
Tallinn University of Technology – Ruxin Wang, Aleksei Tepljakov
Mektory Business and Innovation Centre – Merili Deemant, Meeli Semjonov
EuroVR – Marco Sacco, Sonia Lorini, Patrick Bourdot
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTE
TOPICS
TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to:
Technologies
XR system architecture
Collaborative and distributed XR
Augmented Reality and mobile devices
Augmented Virtuality
Novel inpunt devices
Tracking and motion technologies
Advances in display technologies Image-based 3D modeling and rendering
Realistic rendering of dynamic or complex scenes
3D audio rendering and related technologies
Tracking and motion technologies
Advances in display technologiesImage-based 3D modelling and rendering
Realistic rendering of dynamic or complex scenes
3D audio rendering and related technologies
Haptics and force-feedback, algorithms, systems, and devices.
Realtime audio rendering and interfaces
Real-time modelling & simulation
Immersive collaboration: technologies, use cases, management
Immersive analytics: interactions, models, architectures
Artificial intelligence for XR
Virtual humans for XR
Crowd simulations
Teleoperation and telepresence
Human factor issues
UI for XR headsets (voice, controllers, rings, etc.)User studies on all topics related to XR
Presence, realism, validity, fidelity
3D user interfaces and/or 3D interaction metaphors
Self-representation and embodiment, avatars, virtual humans
Cybersickness and side effects
Perception and cognition
Cost effectiveness and cost efficiency
Ethical procedures and guidelines
Cybersecurity, data protection and other legal issues
Applications
Industrial applications
Aerospace and Transport
Construction and Architecture
Manufacturing and Engineering
Consumer neuroscience
Organizational neuroscience
Medicine and Rehabilitation
Product and Process design
Robotics
Training and Education
Cultural heritage
Creative Practice
Serious Gaming and Edutainment
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OVERVIEW
DAY 1. Wednesday, November 24
DAY 2. Thursday, November 25
DAY 3. Friday, November 26
SCIENTIFIC KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Professor Hideo Saito
Professor Mariano Alcañiz Raya
Keynote: Augmented Visualization by Multiple Viewpoints
Hideo Saito received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 1992. Since then, he has been on the Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University. From 1997 to 1999, he joined the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting researcher. Since 2006, he has been a full professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University. His recent activities for academic conferences include being a Program Chair of ACCV2014, a General Chair of ISMAR2015, and a Program Chair of ISMAR2016. His research interests include computer vision and pattern recognition, and their applications to augmented reality, virtual reality, and human robotics interaction. He received awards including Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper in IEEE VR 2011, Jon Campbell Best Paper Prize in IMVIP2014, a Best Paper in Electronic Imaging 2016, and the Best Paper Award published in Computational Visual Media Journal in 2017 . He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), a Fellow of Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ), and a Senior Member of IEEE.
Keynote: In Search of Behavioral Biomarkers for Mental Disorders using VR
Dr. Alcañiz is full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and Director of the Laboratory of Immersive Neurotechnologies (LabLENI). His research interest is to understand human social cognition using emerging technologies end ecologically valid mixed reality based simulations. He has published more than 300 scientific articles and coordinated several European projects related to the area. He is the National Program Coordinator of the Information Society Technology (IST) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain and he is the Spanish representative for ICT area at the Horizon 2020 European Research Program Committee. He is also member of the executive committee of EURO-VR association.
Professor Victoria Interrante
Dr. Aleksei Tepljakov
Keynote: Spatial Perception and Embodiment in Immersive Architectural Environments”
Dr. Victoria Interrante is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota (USA) and Director of the university-wide Center for Cognitive Sciences. Professor Interrante has a 20-year history of involvement in the VR community, focusing primarily on research related to the application of insights from visual perception and cognition to the development of more effective virtual reality experiences. She is currently serving on the steering committee of the international IEEE VR conference and as co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception.
Keynote: Towards Intelligent Immersive Virtual Environments
Aleksei Tepljakov received his Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technology from Tallinn University of Technology in 2015. From January 2016 Dr. Tepljakov holds a Research Scientist position at the Department of Computer Systems, School of Information Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology. His main research interests include fractional-order modeling and control of complex systems and developing efficient mathematical and 3D modeling methods for virtual and augmented reality for educational and industrial applications. From March 2017 he serves as head of Re:creation Virtual Reality laboratory in the Centre for Intelligent Systems. Dr. Tepljakov is a Senior Member of IEEE with 8 years of service, a member of IEEE Control Systems Society since 2012, and a member of Education Society from 2018.
APPLICATION KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Christian Lunetta
Pr. Walter Terkaj
24 November 2021 - Keynote: “The XR opportunities for people with neuro-motor diseases: the NEMO LAB experience”
He is the Scientific Director of NEMO Lab s.r.l., an innovation technology hub applied to the neuromuscular patients in Milan, Italy. He is the neurologist and leader of the ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Care and Research team of NEMO Clinical Center in Milan, Italy. He was the clinical director of NEMO SUD in Messina, Italy (2015-2017). He was neurologist and trial investigator of Department of Neurology, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, University of Milan, Milan, Italy (2006-2007). He is the principal investigator of several clinical and technological trial in ALS. He is author of more than 150 papers published in peer-reviewed journals (H index Scopus: 32).
26 November 2021 - Keynote: “Virtual Reality for Digital Factory Twin: applications for learning and training”
Walter Terkaj is senior researcher at STIIMA institute of the National Research Council of Italy. His main research interests are related to the study and modelling of production systems in the scope of digital factory applications. He employed VR technologies in academic teaching and industrial applications, participating in several European research projects. He is currently scientific responsible for CNR-STIIMA in two Erasmus+ projects. He has more than 60 publications in international journals, books, and conference proceedings.
TYPE OF CONTRIBUTIONS
Deadlines
For the Scientific track, contributions deadlines are:
All Scientific submissions (Full papers & Short papers):
July 5 July 26, 2021, 23:59 CESTNotifications to the authors for all Scientific submissions:
August 23 September 6, 2021, 23:59 CESTCamera ready for all Scientific contributions:
September 13, 2021
For the Application track and the Demo & Exhibition track, contributions deadlines are:
Short abstract submissions for all related categories:
Sept 13, 2021Notification to authors for all related categories:
Oct 4, 2021Camera ready for all related categories:
Oct 11, 2021
Conference days: November 24-26, 2021
Journal Invitation and Awards
In addition, a set of the best accepted contributions will be selected by a special committee structured according to the categories of the Scientific and Application tracks, to invite the authors of the selected contributions to submit an extended version to the open access journal Frontiers in Virtual Environments.
Last but not the least, based of the work of the same special committee, best awards will be decided for each contribution category within each track.
Types of Contributions
Scientific track submissions can be:
Full papers – either Long (14-20 pages) or Medium (8-12 pages) sizing – to be presented respectively as long or short talks during the scientific talk sessions: such submissions target original, unpublished works documenting new research, practices, and experience, novel applications in VR or AV/AR/MR, or sound States of the Arts on challenging research questions in that field.
Short papers (4-6 pages) to be presented during the scientific poster sessions: such submissions target works in progress or other scientific contributions including ideas for unimplemented and/or unusual VR or AV/AR/MR systems.
All scientific paper submissions must be in one-column Springer format and indicated paper lengths do not include references.
The Scientific Program chairs will be in charge to select the accepted contributions of the both above categories, thanks to a double blind peer reviewing process among an International Program Committee (IPC). All accepted scientific papers will be published with the sizing (Long/Medium or Short) corresponding to their categories in the Scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021, edited by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For your convenience, indexing information of LNCS series is available on this Springer webpage.
Application track contributions can be:
Application talk (2-4 pages abstract): best practices, practical use cases of VR or AV/AR/MR, project results of applications using such technologies in industry and other sectors, actual or potential transfers of academic results, and position papers.
Application poster (2-4 pages abstract): recently completed VR or AV/AR/MR applied work, application in progress, or unusual applications.
For this track, the Application Program chairs will manage the full review/acceptation process of two types of contributions (Application talk vs. Application poster).
Demo & Exhibition track (2-4 pages abstract): live demonstrations of past and on-going projects. Technology developers and suppliers, exhibitors, digital artists, and members of the commercial VR or AV/AR/MR communities are all invited to exhibit and demonstrate the latest technologies and applications.
For this track, the Demo & Exhibition chairs will manage the full review/acceptation process of this type of contributions.
All accepted abstracts for Application track and Demo & Exhibition track will be published in the Application & Demo proceedings of EuroXR 2021 as an ISBN-registered volume edited by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd.
Moreover, we highly encourage all authors submitting any kind of contribution to categories Full Papers, Short Papers, Application talk or Application poster, to also submit a live demonstration and so a related abstract to this Demo & Exhibition track.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES SCIENTIFIC TRACK
Contributions for the Scientific track of EuroXR 2021 can be:
• Scientific Full papers – either Long (14-20 pages) or Medium (8-12 pages) sizing – to be presented respectively as long or short talks during the scientific talk sessions: such submissions target original, unpublished papers documenting new research, practices and experience, novel applications in VR or AV/AR/MR, or sound States of the Arts on challenging research questions in that field.
• Scientific Poster/Short papers (4-6 pages) to be presented during the scientific poster sessions: such submissions target work in progress or other scientific contributions including ideas for unimplemented and/or unusual VR or AV/AR/MR systems.
Independently to these categories and paper-sizing, all scientific contributions will have to follow the one column Springer format (see below, Paper Formatting section). Please note that indicated paper lengths do not include references.
The topics of interest of scientific contributions papers may be seen here.
The Scientific Program Chairs will be in charge to select the accepted contributions of the above categories, thanks to a double-blind peer reviewing process among the International Program Committee (IPC). All accepted papers will be published with the sizing corresponding to their category in the Scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021, edited by Springer as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. For your convenience, indexing information of LNCS series is available on this Springer webpage.
For all scientific contributions, from submission stage up to providing the camera-ready document set for accepted contributions, it is mandatory to upload, before the related deadlines, all documents thanks to the Online Conference Service (OCS) of Springer, whose specific pages concern the review and the book edition of the scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021.
Therefore, for scientific contributions at EuroXR 2021, please connect you on the following OCS webpage
In submitting any kind of scientific contribution, the author(s) agree that, upon acceptance, they will prepare the final manuscript in time for inclusion into the published proceedings and will present the paper at the conference.
To allow the publication of an accepted paper in the LNCS Springer volume of the Scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021, it is mandatory one of the authors signs the copyright form on behalf of all of the other authors. The signing author must have obtained permission to do so beforehand. Moreover, the final manuscript will not be published without a regular registration of at least one of the authors of the accepted paper (including payment of the registration fee) before the deadline for camera-ready submission.
Paper Formatting
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation of their papers.
Moreover, Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf.
To allow a double-blind peer reviewing process, please leave the submitted paper fully anonymous (no author names, nor affiliation).
For the accepted papers, Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs with their names and affiliations.
Paper submission
As previously explained, it is possible to submit Full papers (Long or Medium), or Poster/Short papers.
Only contributions submitted, through the OCS webpage, before July 5 July 26, 2021 23:59 CEST, and strictly adhering to the relevant format and paper sizing (i.e. 14-20 pages for Long papers, or 8-12 pages for Medium ones, or 4-6 pages for Poster papers, all in the Springer format), will be considered for reviewing and publication.
Moreover, please note we kindly asking authors to upload, two days before this deadline, an abstract for each submitted papers, to plan in advance the paper assignation to reviewers.
Notification categories
At the end of the reviewing procedure of the scientific track, submitted contributions will have three possible status.
Some contributions will be accepted in the category of their initial submission (i.e. Scientific Full papers, or Scientific Poster/Short papers), and so will be published in their paper sizing in the LNCS Springer volume of the Scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021.
Some others, submitted as Scientific Full papers, may be accepted only as Scientific Poster/Short papers. Therefore, such contributions will be also published in the LNCS Springer volume of the Scientific proceedings of EuroXR 2021, but with a re-sizing in the Scientific Poster/Short paper format.
The remaining submissions will not be accepted for the Scientific track of EuroXR 2021. However, please consider that some of them may be redirected for one of the other contribution categories of the conference related to the Application track or the Demo & Exhibition track.
Camera Ready Instructions
Authors whose scientific contributions are accepted, will have to prepare a Camera-ready file set.
This set is composed of:
• Camera-ready file (pdf),
• Full Source files (i.e. Latex file and all the image files, or the full Word file including images),
• Consent-to-Publish form (i.e. Springer copyright form of the EuroXR 2021 conference)
This Camera-ready file set must be uploaded on the OCS webpage no later than September 13, 2021 23:59 CEST.
Regarding the Consent-to-Publish form, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of the paper, must complete and sign a Springer copyright form of the EuroXR 2021 conference. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. After the camera ready deadline, no change relating to the authorship of the papers are possible.
Please download here the LNCS Consent-to-Publish form related to the Scientific proceedings of the 18th International Conference, EuroXR 2021.
Paper without signed Consent-to-Publish form, and without a regular registration for at least one of the authors at the camera-ready deadline will not be included in the conference proceedings published as an LNCS book of Springer.
Important dates
• All Scientific submissions (Full papers & Short papers): July 5 July 26, 2021 23:59 CEST
• Notifications to the authors for all Scientific submissions: August 23, Sept. 6, 2021 23:59 CEST
• Camera ready for all Scientific contributions: September 13, 2021
For further information, feel free to contact the Scientific Program Chairs of EuroXR 2021.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR
APPLICATION AND DEMO & EXHIBITION TRACKS
For all categories of the Application track and for Demo & Exhibition track, submissions are managed by EasyChair.
Information will be available soon in the detailed submission guidelines of these tracks.
Abstract Formatting
The abstracts are to be submitted in the English language as a PDF file using the Microsoft Word template available here. The number of pages is indicative.
Abstract Submission
Only abstracts submitted before September 13, 2021 via our EasyChair portal will be considered for reviewing and publication in the conference USB keys.
Important dates for the Application and Demo & Exhibition tracks
Short abstract submissions for all related categories: September 27, 2021
Notifications to the authors: October 4, 2021
Camera ready of accepted abstracts: October 11, 2021
For further information, feel free to contact the Application Program Chairs or Demo & Exhibition Chairs of EuroXR 2021, depending on the category of contribution.
SCIENTIFIC PROCEEDINGSS
EuroXR 2019: Proceedings of the 16th EuroVR International Conference
APPLICATION, POSTER & DEMO PROCEEDINGS
Abstract
The focus of EuroVR 2019 is to present novel Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) technologies, including software systems, display technology, interaction devices, and applications. Besides scientific papers reporting on new advances in the VR/AR/MR interaction technologies, the conference programme includes application-oriented presentations, creating a unique opportunity for participants to network, discuss, and share the latest innovations around commercial and research applications. As in previous years, we welcome industrial and academic exhibitors, as well as sponsors, all within the same exhibition area, to connect with our community. Our major priority is to provide authors the opportunity to prestigiously disseminate their innovative work within the wide community of end-users, from large scale industries to SMEs.
REGISTRATION
Get your free ticket to the three-day conference, you have until November 20, 23.59 CET to register.
INDUSTRY VISITS
Magnetic MRO
13.20 – 13.30
13.50
13.50 – 14.10
14.10 – 16.10
16.10 – 16.30
13.20 – 13.30
13.50
15.50 – 16.10
Some visits to local industries are planned for the last day of the conference on October 25, 2019. Please see the options below. The number of seats is limited and cost is 30 EUR per person (will be added to the conference registration fee upon checkout).
Gathering at Mektory, Raja 15, Tallin
Departure from Mektory to the company
Arriving to Magnetic MRO
Airport security chech (Visitors need to have passport or ID card with them)
Hangar tour with introduction to Magnetic MRO and aviation world.
You will hear a presentation of the usage of VR and AR in aviation and maintenance – the benefits, problems and the future.
Bus transfer to Tallinn city centre
Ericsson
Gathering at Mektory, Raja 15, Tallinn
Departure from Mektory to the company
Arriving to Ericsson
During the visit will hear a 1 hour presentation about Ericsson and have tour in production lines (in 3 different groups)
Bus transfer to Tallinn city centre
e-Estonia Briefing Centre
Website: www.e-estonia.com
Address: Öpiku maja, Valukoja 8, 11415 Tallinn
13.20 – 13.30
13.50
13.50 – 15.00
15.00 – 15.20
Gathering at Mektory, Raja 15, Tallinn
Departure from Mektory to the company
Arriving to e-Estonia Briefing Centre
e-Estonia Briefing Centre offers a comprehensive overview of Estonia’s public e-solutions. During the 60-minute visit guests receive an inspirational introduction to the underlying mechanism involved in digitizing a society, an overview of the main challenges and policies, an understanding of the infrastructure, e-solution and services. An advanced level of English is necessary to follow the presentations.
Bus transfer to Tallinn city centre
EuroXR Awards 2019
As is tradition before officially closing the Conference we celebrated the best contributions across the Scientific Track, Application Track, and Poster & Demo Track during the Awards Ceremony.
