Monday 29th January 2018

SESSION 1 Stereoscopic Developments Session Chair: Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan)

Mon. 8:50 - 10:10 AM

8:50 am: Use of VR to assess and treat weaknesses in human stereoscopic vision, Benjamin Backus, James Blaha, Manish Gupta, Brian Dornbos, and Tuan Tran, Vivid Vision, Inc. (United States) [SD&A-109]

9:10 am: Emotional effects of car-based motion representations with stereoscopic images, Ryo Kodama and Nobushige Fujieda, Toyota Central R&D Labs, Inc.; Jo Inami, Yusuke Hasegawa, and Takashi Kawai, Waseda University (Japan) [SD&A-110]

9:30 am: Mid-air imaging technique for architecture in public space, Ayaka Sano and Naoya Koizumi, The University of Electro-Communications (Japan) [SD&A-111]

9:50 am: A Refocus-Interface for Diminished Reality Work Area Visualization, Hideo Saito, Keio University; Momoko Maezawa and Shohei Mori, Keio University (Japan) [SD&A-112]

SD&A Conference Opening Remarks by Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia)

Mon. 10:10 am - 10:20 pm

Coffee Break

Mon. 10:20 - 10:50 am

SESSION 2 Autostereoscopic Displays 1: Light-field Session Chair: John Stern, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (United States)

Mon. 10:50 am - 12:30 pm

10:50 am: Initial work on development of an open Streaming Media Standard for Field of Light Displays (SMFoLD), Jamison Daniel, Benjamin Hernandez Arreguin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Stephen Kelley, C. E. (Tommy) Thomas, Paul Jones, Third Dimension Technologies; Chris Chinnock, Insight Media (United States) [SD&A-140]

11:10 am: Simulation tools for light-field displays based on a micro-lens array, Weitao Song, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment (China); Dongdong Weng, Yue Liu, and Yongtian Wang, Advanced Innovation Center for Future Visual Entertainment and Beijing Institute of Technology (China) [SD&A-141]

11:30 am: Full-parallax spherical light field display using mirror array, Hiroaki Yano and Tomohiro Yendo, Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan) [SD&A-142]

11:50 am: Fast calculation method for full-color computer-generated hologram with real objects captured by a depth camera, Yu Zhao¹, Shahinur Alam¹, Seok-Hee Jeon³, and Nam Kim²; ¹Chungbuk National University and ³Incheon National University (Republic of Korea) [SD&A-250]

12:10 pm: Conversion of sparsely-captured light field into alias-free full-parallax multiview content, Suren Vagharshakyan, Robert Bregovic, Atanas Gotchev; Erdem Sahin, Tampere University of Technology (Finland); Gwangsoon Lee, ETRI (North Korea) [SD&A-144]

Lunch Break

Mon. 12:30 - 2:00 pm

EI 2018 Opening Plenary Mon. 2:00 to 3:00 pm Overview of Modern Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks - Impact on Imaging and the Field of Computer Vision Dr. Greg Corrado, co-founder of Google Brain and Principal Scientist at Google             Dr. Corrado is a senior research scientist interested in biological neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and scalable machine learning. He has published in fields ranging across behavioral economics, neuromorphic device physics, systems neuroscience, and deep learning. At Google he has worked for some time on brain inspired computing, and most recently has served as one of the founding members and the co-technical lead of Google's large scale deep neural networks project.

Coffee Break

3:00 - 3:30 pm

SD&A Keynote Session 1 Session Chair: Session Chair: Nick Holliman, Newcastle University (UK) Mon. 3:30 - 4:30 pm What use is 'time-expired' disparity and optic flow information to a moving observer? Andrew Glennerster, University of Reading (United Kingdom)   [SD&A-388]   Abstract: It is clear that optic flow is useful to guide an observer's movement and that binocular disparity contributes too (e.g. Roy, Komatsu and Wurtz, 1992). Both cues are important in recovering scene structure. What is less clear is how the information might be useful after a few seconds, when the observer has moved to a new vantage point and the egocentric frame in which the information was gathered is no longer applicable. One answer, pursued successfully in computer vision, is to interpret any new binocular disparity and optic flow information in relation to a 3D reconstruction of the scene (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, SLAM). Then, as the estimate of the camera pose is updated, the 3D information computed from earlier frames is always relevant. No-one suggests that animals carry out visual SLAM, at least not in the way that computer vision implements it and yet we have no serious competitor models. Reinforcement learning is just beginning to approach 3D tasks such as navigation and to build representations that are quite unlike a 3D reconstruction. I will describe psychophysical tasks from our VR lab where participants point to unseen targets after navigating to different locations. There are large systematic biases in performance on these tasks that rule out (in line with other evidence) the notion that humans build a stable 3D reconstruction of the scene that is independent of the task at hand. He will discuss some indications about what it might do instead. Biography: Prof. Andrew Glennerster studied medicine at Cambridge before working briefly with Michael Morgan at UCL then doing a DPhil and an EU-funded postdoc with Brian Rogers on binocular stereopsis (1989 - 1994). He held an MRC Career Development Award (1994 - 1998) with Andrew Parker in Physiology at Oxford including a year with Suzanne McKee in Smith-Kettlewel, San Francisco. He continued work with Andrew Parker on a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (1999 - 2007) which allowed him to set up a virtual reality laboratory to study 3D perception in moving observer, funded for 12 years by the Wellcome Trust. He moved to Psychology in Reading in 2005, first as a Reader and now as a Professor, where the lab is now funded by EPSRC.

EI 2018 Symposium Reception The annual Electronic Imaging All-Conference Reception provides a wonderful opportunity to get to know and interact with new and old SD&A colleagues. Plan to join us for this relaxing and enjoyable event.

Mon. 5:00 - 6:00 pm

SD&A 3D Theatre Session Chairs: John Stern, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (United States); Chris Ward, Lightspeed Design, Inc. (United States); and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia) Mon. 6:00 to 7:30 pm This ever-popular session of each year's Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference showcases the wide variety of 3D content that is being produced and exhibited around the world. All 3D footage screened in the 3D Theater Session is shown in high-quality polarized 3D on a large screen. The final program will be announced at the conference and 3D glasses will be provided.

SD&A Conference Annual Dinner Mon. 7:50 pm to 10:00 pm The annual informal dinner for SD&A attendees. An opportunity to meet with colleagues and discuss the latest advances. There is no host for the dinner. Information on venue and cost will be provided on the day at the conference.

Tuesday 30th January 2018

SESSION 3 Stereoscopic Applications: VR to Immersive Analytics in Bioinformatics 1 (Joint Session) Session Chair: Björn Sommer, University of Konstanz (Germany) This session is jointly sponsored by: Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX and The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018.

Tue. 8:50 - 10:10 AM

8:50 am: Mesoscopic rigid body modeling of the ExtraCellular Matrix's self assembly, Hua Wong, Nicolas Belloy, and Manuel Dauchez, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (France) [SD&A-189]

9:10 am: Semantics for an integrative and immersive pipeline combining visualisation and analysis of molecular data, Mikael Trellet², Nicolas Ferey², Patrick Bourdot², and Marc Baaden¹; ¹IBPC and ²LIMSI (France) [SD&A-190]

9:30 am: 3D-stereoscopic modeling and visualization of a Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cell, Niklas Biere⁴, Mehmood Ghaffar⁴, Daniel Jäger⁴, Anja Doebbe⁴, Nils Rothe⁴, Karsten Klein^2,3, Ralf Hofestädt⁴, Falk Schreiber^1,3, Olaf Kruse⁴, and Björn Sommer^1,3; ¹University of Konstanz, ²University of Konstanz, Germany, ³Monash University (Australia), and ⁴Bielefeld University (Germany) [SD&A-191]

9:50 am: Immersive analysis and visualization of redox signaling pathways integrating experiments and computational modelling, , Alexandre Maes², Karen Druart¹, Sean Guégan¹, Xavier Martinez^1,3, Christophe Marchand², Stéphane Lemaire², and Marc Baaden¹; ¹Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique, CNRS, UPR9080, Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, PSL Research University, ²Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, UMR8226, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Université Paris 06, and ³CNRS-LIMSI, VENISE team, Univ Paris-Sud (France) [SD&A-192]

Coffee Break

Tues. 10:30 - 10:50 am

SESSION 4 Autostereoscopic Displays 2: Volumetric, Integral, Stackable, and Holographic Session Chair: Gregg Favalora, Draper (United States)

Tue. 10:50 am - 12:30 pm

10:50 am: Recent progress in volumetric 3D digital light photoactivatable dye displays, Shreya Patel, Jian Cao, Anthony Spearman, Cecilia O'Brien, and Alexander Lippert, Southern Methodist University (United States) [SD&A-246]

11:10 am: Integral imaging system using locally controllable point light source array, Hayato Watanabe, Masahiro Kawakita, Naoto Okaichi, Hisayuki Sasaki, and Tomoyuki Mishina, Science and Technology Research Laboratories, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) (Japan) [SD&A-247]

11:30 am: Mobile integral imaging display using three-dimensional scanning, Munkh-Uchra¹ Erdenebat¹, Ki-Chul Kwon², Erkhembaatar Dashdavaa³, Jong-Rae Jeong⁴, and Nam Kim¹; ¹Chungbuk National University and ⁴Suwon Science College (Republic of Korea) [SD&A-248]

11:50 am: Constructing Stackable Multiscopic Display Panels Using Microlenses and Optical Waveguides , Hironobu Gotoda, National Institute of Informatics (Japan) [SD&A-249]

12:10 pm: Angular and Spatial Sampling Requirements in 3D Light Field Displays, Hong Hua, The University of Arizona (United States) [SD&A-143]

Lunch Break

Tues. 12:30 - 2:00 pm

EI Plenary Session 2 Tue. 2:00 to 3:00 pm Fast, Automated 3D Modeling of Buildings and Other GPS Denied Environments Avideh Zahkor, Qualcomm Chair & Professor at U.C. Berkeley       Dr. Zakhor is a CEO and founder of Indoor Reality, a silicon valley start up with products in 3D reality capture, and visual and metric documentation of building interiors. Zakhor has been faculty member at U.C. Berkeley since 1988 where she has holds the Qualcomm Chair in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. She co-founded OPC technology in 1996, which was acquired by Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq: MENT) in 1998, and UrbanScan Inc. in 2005 which was acquired by Google (Nasdaq:GOOGL) in 2007. UrbanScan created the first fully automated 3D outdoor mapping system for 3D exterior models of buildings in urban environments. She has received a number of best paper awards in 3D computer vision, image processing, signal processing, is an IEEE fellow, and received the presidential young investigator award from President George Herber Walker Bush in 1992.

Coffee Break

Tues. 3:00 - 3:30 pm

SD&A Discussion Forum 360° Imaging Should Be 3D - But Why And How? Tues. 3:30 - 4:30 pm Moderator: Andrew Woods, Curtin University Panellists: Dan Sandin (The University of Illinois at Chicago),                 Greg Dawe (University of California San Diego),                 Eric Kurland (3-D Space).

SESSION 5 Stereoscopic Applications: VR to Immersive Analytics in Bioinformatics 2 Session Chair: Marc Baaden, IBPC (France)

Tue. 4:30 - 5:30 pm

This session is jointly sponsored by: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX.

4:30 pm: Interactive molecular graphics for augmented reality using HoloLens, Christoph Müller, Michael Krone, Markus Huber, Verena Biener, Guido Reina, Daniel Weiskopf, and Thomas Ertl, University of Stuttgart (Germany) [SD&A-288]

4:50 pm: Molecular Dynamics Visualization (MDV): Stereoscopic 3D display of biomolecular structure and interactions using the Unity game engine, Michael Wiebrands, Chris Malajczuk, Andrew Woods, Andrew Rohl, and Ricardo Mancera, Curtin University (Australia) [SD&A-289]

Symposium Demonstration Session Tues. 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Demonstrations A symposium-wide demonstration session will be open to attendees 5:30 to 7:30 pm Tuesday evening. Demonstrators will provide interactive, hands-on demonstrations of a wide-range of products related to Electronic Imaging. The demonstration session hosts a vast collection of stereoscopic products providing a perfect opportunity to witness a wide array of stereoscopic displays with your own two eyes. More information: http://www.stereoscopic.org/demo/index.html.

Wednesday 31st January 2018

SESSION 6 Stereoscopic History Session Chair: Nicolas Holliman, University of Newcastle (United Kingdom)

Wed. 8:50 - 9:10 am

8:50 am: The History of Stereoscopic Video Games for the Consumer Electronic Market, Ilicia Benoit, NYSA (United States) [SD&A-290]

SD&A Keynote Session 2 Session Chair: Session Chair: Nick Holliman, Newcastle University (UK) Wed. 9:10 - 10:10 am Over fifty years of working with stereoscopic 3D systems – anecdotes, insights, and advice illustrated by many examples of stereoscopic imagery, both good and bad John O. Merritt, The Merritt Group (USA)     Abstract: Stereoscopic 3D has been around for well over a century --- so, how could 3D systems still not be completely perfected and accepted by now? Why does stereo 3D popularity wax and wane in cycles? Why were 3D Home TVs readily available in retail stores a few years ago, but now are not to be found? This presentation will discuss "lessons learned" in the course of over fifty years of working with stereo 3D capture and display systems designed for a variety of applications, such as research comparing 2D vs. 3D task performance for telerobotic anthropomorphic manipulators, remotely-driven off-road vehicles, undersea remote work systems, endocscopic and minimally invasive surgical imaging, aerial refueling via 3D video, and others. Common mistakes are described, such as inappropriately applying imaging and display practices developed for 2D imaging to 3D imaging, such as "pulling convergence" along with "pulling focus," using shallow depth-of-field (DOF) in 3D as it is used in 2D to provide monocular depth cues and direct the viewer's attention. Also discussed are the surprisingly frequent and persistent instances of inadvertently swapped Left and Right image channels, creating reversed binocular depth cues that conflict with monocular depth cues. Also mentioned are simple methods for mitigating the perennial problem of conflicts between ocular focus distance (accommodation) vs. binocular fixation distance (convergence), and an interesting trick for minimizing frame violations. Biography: John O. Merritt, Senior Consulting Scientist at The Merritt Group, is an internationally recognized expert in the design and evaluation of stereoscopic 3D displays, specializing in the practical application of research in sensory and perceptual science for improvements in visual comfort and other human factors issues related to 3D display systems. His early work using 3D displays in satellite reconnaissance as a Naval Air Intelligence Officer, combined with his many years as a visual human-factors design and evaluation consultant, make him uniquely qualified to assess the strengths and weaknesses of advanced stereo 3D systems. He has extensive experience comparing task performance in 3D vs. 2D evaluation research studies and is the author of many technical reports and papers in the areas of vision research, binocular night vision devices, image-quality standards, photo-interpretation, simulator displays, visual fatigue, and evaluation of stereo 3D systems for minimally invasive surgery and other telepresence/telerobotic systems. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a Fellow and Senior Member of the SPIE, and is the Founding Chair of the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications conference (SD&A), held annually in the San Francisco bay area since 1990.

Coffee Break

Wed. 10:10 - 10:40 am

Immersive Imaging Keynote (Joint Session): Session Chair: Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University), and Nitin Sampat (Rochester Institute of Technology) This session is jointly sponsored by: Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2018; The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018; and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX. Wed. 10:40 - 11:20 am Real-time capture of people and environments for immersive computing   Shahram Izadi, PerceptiveIO, Inc. (United States)   [PMII-320] This session is jointly sponsored by: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018, Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2018, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX. Dr. Shahram Izadi is co-founder and CTO of perceptiveIO, a new Bay Area startup working on bleeding-edge research and products at the intersection of real-time computer vision, applied machine learning, novel displays, sensing, and human-computer interaction. Prior to perceptiveIO, Dr. Izadis was a research manager at Microsoft, managing a team of researchers and engineers, called Interactive 3D Technologies, working on moonshot projects in the area of augmented and virtual reality and natural user interfaces.

SESSION 7 Immersive Imaging (Joint Session) Session Chair: Gordon Wetzstein (Stanford University), and Nitin Sampat (Rochester Institute of Technology) This session is jointly sponsored by: Photography, Mobile, and Immersive Imaging 2018; The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018; and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX

Wed. 11:20 am - 12:40 pm

11:20 am: SpinVR: Towards Live-Streaming 3D Virtual Reality Video, Donald Dansereau, Robert Konrad, Aniq Masood, and Gordon Wetzstein, Stanford University (United States) [PMII-350]

11:40 am: Towards a full parallax cinematic VR system, Haricharan Lakshman, Dolby Labs (United States) [PMII-351]

Noon: Perceptual Evaluation of Six Degrees of Freedom Virtual Reality Rendering from Stacked Omnistereo Representation , Jayant Thatte and Bernd Girod, Stanford University (United States) [PMII-352]

12:20 pm: Image systems simulation for 360° camera rigs , Trisha Lian, Joyce Farrell, and Brian Wandell; Stanford University (United States) [PMII-353]

Lunch Break

Wed. 12:40 - 2:00 pm

EI Plenary Session 3 Wed. 2:00 - 3:00 pm Ubiquitous, Consumer AR Systems to Supplant Smartphones Ronald T. Azuma, Intel Labs (USA)       Dr. Ronald T. Azuma, Intel Labs researcher and Augmented Reality pioneer, will share his vision for achieving ubiquitous, consumer AR systems. Recent large investments in Augmented Reality reflect the commercial interest in its inherent potential to replace current smartphone technology, but much remains to be done. In his talk, Dr. Azuma gives a vision for achieving this goal, which requires not just solving numerous technical challenges but also determining new, compelling AR experiences that will establish AR as a new platform and novel form of media. Currently, Dr. Azuma leads a team in Intel Labs that designs and prototypes novel experiences and key enabling technologies to enable new forms of media. These technology areas include computational imaging and photography, computational displays, and head-worn displays. Dr. Azuma is recognized as a pioneer and innovator in Augmented Reality, and he has held prominent leadership roles in that research area, including leading and implementing research projects and demonstrations in areas such as AR, visualization, and mobile applications.

Coffee Break

Wed. 3:00 - 3:30 pm

SESSION 8 Visualization Facilities (Joint Session) Session Chairs: Margaret Dolinsky, Indiana University (United States) and Andrew Woods, Curtin University (Australia) This session is jointly sponsored by: The Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2018, and Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX.

Wed. 3:30 - 5:10 pm

3:30 pm: xREZ Art + Science Lab - Facilities Presentation, Ruth West, University of North Texas (United States) [ERVR-392]

3:50 pm: CADwalk: life-size MR-AR-VR design experience - optimising and validating mission critical work environments, Gerhard Kimenkowski, CADwalk Global Pty Ltd (Australia) [SD&A-393]

4:10 pm: When One Is Not Enough: Cross-Platform And Collaborative Developments At The Emerging Analytics Center, Dirk Reiners, Carolina Cruz-Neira, and Carsten Neumann, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (United States) [ERVR-394]

4:30 pm: Multiplatform VR case study - Beacon Virtua, Andrew Woods¹, Nick Oliver¹, and Paul Bourke²; ¹Curtin University and ²University of Western Australia (Australia) [SD&A-395]

4:50 pm: What Will We See Next? Current Visualization Facilities Trends and Future Considerations, Mike Pedersen, Mechdyne Corp. (United States) [SD&A-396]

SD&A Conference Closing Remarks by Nicolas Holliman, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)

Wed. 5:10 pm - 5:30 pm

Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXIX Interactive Papers (Poster) Session The following works will be presented at the EI 2018 Symposium Interactive Papers Session on Wednesday evening, from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Wed. 5:30 - 7:00 pm

• Computer-generated holography method based on orthographic projection using depth camera, Yan-Ling Piao1, Seo-Yeon Park1, Hui-Ying Wu1, Sang-Keun Gil2, and Nam Kim1; 1Chungbuk National University and 2Suwon University (Republic of Korea) [SD&A-410]
• Full-parallax and high-quality multiview 3D image acquisition method using camera slider, Byeong-Jun Kim, Ki-Chul Kwon, Jae-Min Lee, Young-Tae Lim, and Nam Kim, Chungbuk National University (Republic of Korea) [SD&A-411]
• Projection type light field display using undulating screen, Masahiro Kajimoto and Tomohiro Yendo, Nagaoka Univ. of Technology (Japan) [SD&A-412]
• Study of eye tracking type super multi-view display using time division multiplexing, Yuta Takahashi and Tomohiro Yendo, Nagaoka University of Technology (Japan) [SD&A-413]