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IS&T offers students who receive best paper conference awards an opportunity to give a free online presentation related to the work discussed in their proceedings paper (click on title to view paper). These seminars are recorded for later viewing.

Upcoming Seminars

IS&T EI2026 Conferences: IQSP & IMAGE

May 30, 2026
4:00-5:00 PDT / 19:00-20:00 China ST
Online Seminar Link: Join

Session Chair: Sophie Triantaphillidou

Best Student Paper Awards: EI2026

Perceptual Thresholds of Facial Lighting Chromaticity in Virtual Environments
Conference: IQSP

Xinmiao Zhang, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, US

Lighting chromaticity plays a critical role in the visual perception of rendered content embedded within virtual scenes.

Dual-Stream Feature Disentanglement Network for Single Domain Generalized Facial Expression Recognition
Conference: IMAGE

Ningyu Chen — Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China

Facial expression recognition often struggles with performance drops when faced with new, unseen data. To solve this, we introduce the Dual-Stream Feature Disentanglement Network (DFD-Net).

(click on the Join link above to participate)

 

IS&T EI2026 Conferences: HVEI & GENAI

May 22, 2026
1:00–2:00 PM EDT
Online Seminar

Session Chair: Marius Pederson

Best Student Paper Awards: EI2026

The Impact of Blur on Motion Parallax and Binocular Disparity
Conference: HVEI

Sophie Kergaßner, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland

This talk investigates how spatial blur influences motion-based depth perception and compares the findings with binocular disparity studies.

Adapting DeQA-Score for Attribute-Specific Portrait Quality Assessment
Conference: GENAI

Yujin Cho, ENS Paris-Saclay

This presentation explores adapting DeQA-Score for explainable portrait quality assessment using lightweight LoRA fine-tuning and perceptual JOD annotations.

 

 

HDR Color Difference and Color Appearance

April 14, 2026
5 pm Hong Kong time
Online Seminar

Best Student Paper Award: CIC33

HDR Image Visual Matching and Tone Mapping based on CAM16-UCS

Miaosen Zhou, Colour Engineering Lab, Zhejiang University

and

New Research from the
CIC33 General Co-Chair:

Color Difference and Color Appearance for Highlights in HDR Scenes

Minchen (Tommy) Wei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

Recordings of Past Seminars

MULTISPECTRAL VISUALIZATION

Multispectral Visualization:
Color Imaging and Cultural Heritage

Trevor Canham, York University

Best Student Paper Award: CIC31

and

Ruven Pillay, Centre of Research and Restoration (C2RMF), Louvre Museum

(click on image or title to view;  you need to put in your name and email to do so)


REFLECTANCE

Predicting the Reflectance and Transmittance of Translucent Dental Resins

Vincent Duveiller, Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Etienne

Best Student Paper Award: CIC28
LUMINANCE

Effect of Peak Luminance on Perceptual Color Gamut Volume

Fu Jiang, Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology and Apple Inc.

Cactus Award for Best Interactive Paper: CIC28
MATERIAL APPEARANCE

Caustics and Translucency Perception

Davit Gigilashvili, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)

Best Student Paper: Material Appearance (MAAP) 2020 Conference 

Sponsored by:
Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and
3D Data Compression

Variable Precision Depth Encoding for 3D Range Geometry Compression

Matthew G. Finley, University of Iowa (US)

Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and
CMOS SENSORS

An Over 120dB Dynamic Range Linear Response Single Exposure CMOS Image Sensor with Two-stage Lateral Overflow Integration Trench Capacitors

Yasuyuki Fujihara, School of Engineering Tohoku University (Japan)

Arnaud Darmont Memorial Best Paper Award: Image Sensors and Systems (ISS) 2020 Conference 

Sponsored by
 
Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and
Change Detection

LambdaNet: A Fully Convolutional Architecture for Directional Change Detection

Bryan Blakeslee, Rochester Institute of Technology (US)

Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and
Autonomous Vehicles

Camera System Performance Derived from Natural Scenes

Oliver van Zwanenberg, University of Westminster (UK)

Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and
CNNS
CNNS

Learning a CNN on multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation with self-supervision

Alexandre Fenneteau, Siemens Healthcare (France)

Seminar Support:
anonymous donor and