October 16-20 2023 | Hybrid | Sydney, Australia

AWARDS

Prizes

Winners received vouchers for online self-paced course offered by the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, courtesy of NVIDIA

Best Journal Papers

Understanding Effects of Visual Feedback Delay in AR on Fine Motor Surgical Tasks

Talha Khan, Toby S. Zhu, Thomas Downes, Lucille Cheng, Nicolás M. Kass, Edward G. Andrews, and Jacob T. Biehl

Multi-layer Scene Representation from Composed Focal Stacks

Reina Ishikawa, Hideo Saito, Denis Kalkofen, and Shohei Mori

Best Conference Paper

Point & Portal: A New Action at a Distance Technique For Virtual Reality

Daniel Ablett, Andrew Cunningham, Gun A. Lee, and Bruce H. Thomas

Honorable Mention for Best Conference Paper

Enhancing Seamless Walking in Virtual Reality: Application of Bone-Conduction Vibration in Redirected Walking

Seokhyun Hwang, YoungIn Kim, Youngseok Seo, and SeungJun Kim

Best Poster

Are You Aroused Enough to See the Difference? The Role of Physiological Arousal in Perceiving Realism of Virtual Scene 

Natalia Lipp, Paweł Strojny, Agnieszka Strojny, Sławomir Śpiewak, Jan K Argasiński, and Przemysław Korzeniowski

Honorable Mention for Best Poster

Interactive Registration Methods for Augmented Reality in Robotics: A Comparative Evaluation 

Tonia Mielke, Fabian Joeres, Danny Schott, and Christian Hansen

Best Demo

Hybrid Cross Reality Collaborative System

Hyunwoo Cho, Eunhee Chang, Zhuang Chang, Jiashuo Cao, Bowen Yuan, Jonathon D Hart, Gun A. Lee, Thammathip Piumsomboon, and Mark Billinghurst

Honorable Mention for Best Demo

InstantCopresence: A Spatial Anchor Sharing Methodology for Co-located Multiplayer Handheld and Headworn AR

Botao Hu, Yuchen Zhang, Sizheng Hao, and Yilan Tao

Best Design at Student Competition

Time Travellers: An Asynchronous Cross Reality Collaborative System

Hyunwoo Cho, Bowen Yuan, Jonathan Derek Hart, Zhuang Chang, and Jiashuo Cao
Supervisors: Eunhee Chang and Mark Billinghurst

Honorable Mention for Best Design at Student Competition

Reviving Euston Arch: A Mixed Reality Approach to Cultural Heritage Tours

Ziwen Lu, Jingyi Zhang, Kalila Shapiro, and Nels Numan
Supervisors: Simon Julier and Anthony Steed 

RealityGit: Cross Reality Version Control of R&D Optical Workbench

Ke Li and Tim Rolff
Supervisors: Reinhard Bacher and Frank Steinicke

Best Presentation at Doctoral Consortium

How Do Users with Autism Perceive Certain VR Interaction Techniques? An Experience Evaluation through Brainwave Measurement 

Aulia Hening Darmasti

Honorable Mention for Best Presentation at Doctoral Consortium

Investigating Avatars’ Impact on Shopper’s Perception and Behaviour in an Immersive Virtual Store

Yinshu Zhao

Nominated for Best Journal Paper

Effects of Reward Schedule and Avatar Visibility on Joint Agency during VR Collaboration

Seung Un Lee, Jinwook Kim, and Jeongmi Lee

Understanding Effects of Visual Feedback Delay in AR on Fine Motor Surgical Tasks

Talha Khan , Toby S. Zhu, Thomas Downes, Lucille Cheng, Nicolás M. Kass, Edward G. Andrews, and Jacob T. Biehl

“To Be or Not to Be Me?”: Exploration of Self-Similar Effects of Avatars on Social Virtual Reality Experiences

Hayeon Kim, Jinhyung Park, and In-Kwon Lee

Wearable Augmented Reality: Research Trends and Future Directions from Three Major Venues

Tram Thi Minh Tran, Shane Brown, Oliver Weidlich, Mark Billinghurst, and Callum Parker

Multi-layer Scene Representation from Composed Focal Stacks

Reina Ishikawa, Hideo Saito, Denis Kalkofen, and Shohei Mori

Exemplar-Based Inpainting for 6DOF Virtual Reality Photos

Shohei Mori, Dieter Schmalstieg , and Denis Kalkofen

Nominated for Best Conference Paper

Active Engagement with Virtual Reality Reduces Stress and Increases Positive Emotions

Irene Kim, Ehsan Azimi, Peter Kazanzides, and Chien-Ming Huang

Point & Portal: A New Action at a Distance Technique For Virtual Reality

Daniel Ablett, Andrew Cunningham, Gun A. Lee, and Bruce H. Thomas

Enhancing Seamless Walking in Virtual Reality: Application of Bone-Conduction Vibration in Redirected Walking

Seokhyun Hwang, YoungIn Kim, Youngseok Seo, and SeungJun Kim

Nominated for Best Poster 

Augmented Reality for Interactive Path Planning in 3D

Malte Riechmann, Andre Kirsch, and Matthias König

Interactive Registration Methods for Augmented Reality in Robotics: A Comparative Evaluation 

Tonia Mielke, Fabian Joeres, Danny Schott, Christian Hansen

Manifest: Public Speaking Training Using Virtual Reality 

Haania Siddiqui, Hafsa Irfan, Aliza Lakhani, Batool Ahmed, Sadaf Shaikh, Muhammad Mobeen Movania, and Muhammad Farhan

Are You Aroused Enough to See the Difference? The Role of Physiological Arousal in Perceiving Realism of Virtual Scene 

Natalia Lipp, Paweł Strojny, Agnieszka Strojny, Sławomir Śpiewak, Jan K Argasiński, and Przemysław Korzeniowski

MRLabeling: Create RGB-D Datasets On-The-Fly using Mixed Reality 

Richard Nguyen, Rani Baghezza, Benjamin Georges, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Kevin Bouchard, and Maryam Amiri

Deep Detector and Optical Flow-based Tracking Approach of Facial Markers for Animation Capture 

Zeyu Tian, Dongdong Weng, Hui  Fang, and Yihua Bao

DM-VTON: Distilled Mobile Real-time Virtual Try-On 

Khoi-Nguyen Nguyen-Ngoc, Thanh-Tung Phan-Nguyen, Khanh-Duy Le, Tam Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran, and Trung-Nghia Le