Programme

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Day 1, Thursday 11th September, 2025

09:00 - 09:30

Registration

09:30 - 09:45

Welcome

09:45 - 11:00 - Full Paper Session 1: Computer Vision for Graphics

09:45 - 10:05	full OCCAM: Occlusion-aware Completeness via Coverage Analysis with Monte Carlo Sampling by Lizeth Joseline Fuentes Perez, Luciano Arnaldo Romero Calla, Renato Pajarola, Javier Turek
10:05 - 10:25	full Non-Invasive Detection and Characterization of Powdery Mildew in Strawberries Using Hyperspectral Imaging and Deep Learning under Plastic Tunnel Conditions by Jobin Francis, Maximilian Pircher, Philipp Wree, Ali Al Masri
10:24 - 10:50	full Differential Dynamic Gaussian Splatting: Full Scene Scalable Volumetric Video Reconstruction by Felix Hirt, Tianxiang Lu

11:00 - 11:30

Break and Networking

11:15 - 12:00 - Short Paper Session 1: VR and MR

11:15 - 11:30	short Mixed Reality as a Tool for the Design and Implementation of Virtual Exhibits by Luke Barsby, Christopher Headleand
11:30 - 11:45	short Designing UI for a VR Environment: Diegetic and Non-Diegetic Approaches by Jake Sharples, Benjamin Williams, Shaun Reeves
11:45 - 12:00	short StaffsVerse: Exploring Unreal Editor for Fortnite in Virtual Campus Design by Callum Roberts, Christopher Headleand, Davin Ward, Victoria Searcey

12:00 - 12:30 - Posters

Visualising Chaos through Real-Time Heat Maps in a Flocking Simulation by David White, Craig Weightman

A Unity Framework for Conducting Virtual Reality Experiments by Benjamin Williams, Bradley Davis, Emma Fallows, James Banton, Christopher Headleand

Microknight: A Shared Framework for Game Analysis in Design Education by David James, Kieran Hicks, Christopher Headleand

Peril: A Level Design Tool for Games Education by David James, Kieran Hicks, Christopher Headleand

MechHead: Arcade Framework for Game Design Education by David James, Kieran Hicks, Mike Beardwood, Christopher Headleand

Optimized Hyperspectral Band Selection Approach for a Deep Learning-Based Disease Detection in Strawberry Leaves by Jobin Francis, Ali Al Masri, Shivangi Agarwal, Shobha Mary Varghese, Maximilian Pircher, Philipp Wree

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30 - Keynote: The Shape of Noise - From Stippling to Generative AI

13:30 - 14:30

keynote Noise has long been a fundamental building block in computer graphics, shaping textures, patterns, and realism across decades. In this keynote, we trace the evolution of noise — spanning from the art of stippling to physically based rendering. We then transition to the transformative role of noise in modern generative AI, where (correlated) noise scheduling has become a silent yet powerful lever in shaping image generation. We will explore how adjusting noise schedules can dramatically alter generated outputs without retraining or fine-tuning, revealing surprising artistic and technical “control” over deep generative models. This talk will take you to a journey through the visual and mathematical evolution of noise — the invisible hand behind the modern generative AI tools.

14:30 - 15:00

Break/Poster Exhibition

15:00 - 16:00 - Full Paper Session 2: Geometry, Rendering and Animation

15:00 - 15:20	full Efficient GPU-Based Real-Time Rendering of Curved Geometry for Large-Scale Applications by Sharjeel Qaiser
15:20 - 15:40	full A Lightweight 3D Gaussian Splatting Based Virtual Object Insertion Strategy for Casually Captured Scenes by Tristan Wirth, Vicky Hagemeister, Volker Knauthe, Arjan Kuijper, Dieter Fellner
15:40 - 16:00	full Geometry Compression Using Normal Uncertainty by Zuzana Káčereková, Filip Hácha, Libor Váša

16:00 - 17:00 - Short Paper Session 2: Games and Graphics

16:00 - 16:15	short Investigation Into Virtual Reality Movement Methods by Jake Sharples, Benjamin Williams, Shaun Reeves
16:15 - 16:30	short The Persistence of Agency within the Virtual World by Jamie Tranter, Kieran Hicks, Christopher Headleand
16:30 - 16:45	short Visualising Game Audio: Increasing Audience Engagement Through the Ambient Display of Video Game Soundscapes by Chris Payne, Mat Dalgleish, Sharon Coleclough, Kieran Hicks, Billy Gray, Christopher Headleand
16:45 - 17:00	short Q-ART Owen Scrambling by Abdalla Ahmed

19:00 - 21:30

Conference Banquet: Bon Pan Asian (Floor 1, Clayton Square Shopping Centre, Clayton Lane)

Day 2, Friday 12th September, 2025

09:00 - 10:00 - Full paper Session 3: Visualisation

09:00 - 09:20	full What Makes a Design Study Sustainable in Complex Domains? A Characterisation Framework for Regulated, Stakeholder-Rich Contexts by Svitlana Surodina, Rita Borgo
09:20 - 09:40	full A Natural Language Interface for the Visualization and Analysis of 3D Point Cloud Saliency Maps by Jorge Ciprián Sánchez, Adrian Jobst, Rico Richter, Jürgen Döllner
09:40 - 10:00	full Interactive Visual Analytics for Local Decarbonisation Planning: Empowering Policy-Aligned Scenario Exploration by Dany Laksono, Radu Jianu, Aidan Slingsby

10:00 - 11:00 - Keynote: “Isms” in Visualisation

10:00 - 11:00

keynote In the field of visualization and visual analytics, there are a number of schools of thought, most of which represent different believes about why visualization works, what makes a good visualization, and how visualization should be designed and evaluated. While having such schools of thought indicates a level of scholarly maturity, the different opinions and inconsistent wisdoms suggest the necessity for further theoretical discourses, empirical experimentation, and practical validation. In this talk, the speaker will use information theory to analyze several major schools of thought, including insightism (e.g., “providing insight about data”), cognitivism (e.g., “amplifing human cognition”), communicationism (e.g., “helping tell stories”), and economism (e.g., data-ink ratio). The speaker will also briefly discuss how this form of information-theoretical analysis can be applied to other computational and cognitive processes, e.g., computer graphics, virtual reality, and machine learning.

11:00 - 11:30

Break and Networking

11:30 - 12:30 - Short Paper Session 3: Visualisation

11:30 - 11:45	short Investigating the Ways in Which Mobile Phone Images with Open-Source Data Can Be Used to Create an Augmented Virtual Environment (AVE) by Russell Beale, Benjamin Rutter
11:45 - 12:00	short Enhancing Environmental Data Communication Through VR by Marlene Huber, Johannes Eschner, Katharina Krösl, Milena Vuckovic
12:00 - 12:15	short Mind-Mapping Data Analysis with LLMs: From Vision to First Steps by Radu Jianu, Maeve Hutchinson, Natalia Andrienko, Gennady Andrienko, Mai Elshehaly, Aidan Slingsby
12:15 - 12:30	short GPU Accelerated Cartoon Rendering for Interactive Docking with Receptor Flexibility by Katerina Holdsworth, Georgios Iakovou, Steven Hayward, Stephen Laycock

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch/Poster Exhibition

13:30 - 14:30 - Full Paper Session 4: Games

13:30 - 13:50	full Social Dimensions in Content Creation for Games: A Systematic Review of Fairness, Social Bias, and Diversity in Computational Character and Environment Generation by Robin Horst, Ralf Dörner
13:50 - 14:10	full Run-time Performance Comparison of Sparse-set and Archetype Entity-Component Systems by Louis Cox, Benjamin Williams, James Vickers, Davin Ward, Christopher Headleand
14:10 - 14:30	full 1UP Placements Scheme: Simmersive Education for Games Development Professional Skills by Christopher Headleand, David James, Davin Ward, Kieran Hicks, Carolina Salinas, Raheel Nawaz

14:30 - 15:00

Awards and Closing

15:00 - 16:00

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