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Programme Overview

The conference programme features keynotes, paper sessions, demos, panels, and social activities. A detailed schedule will be released closer to the event.

Detailed session timings and room allocations will be announced soon.

A full programme PDF will be shared once the 2026 schedule is confirmed.

List of Accepted Papers

The accepted papers are listed by conference track and submission category.

Track 1: Visual and Interactive Computing

Full Papers

12 papers
  • Paper 4484

    Policy-as-Governor: A Runtime Governance Architecture for Interactive Policy Experimentation in Multi-Agent Cyberworlds

    Oluwashina Atere, Tillal Eldabi and Irfan Mehmood

  • Paper 4754

    Color Communication Support System for Color Vision Deficiency Using AR and mLLMs

    Zhenyang Zhu, Takuya Oishi, Kentaro Go, Won-Du Chang and Xiaoyang Mao

  • Paper 1861

    Usability Evaluation of a VR Training Scenario for Airport Baggage Handling Systems

    Jeremi Ranosz and Krzysztof Walczak

  • Paper 1870

    Contextual Hybrid Oversampling via Modal Segmentation and K means Yield

    Ali Zaman and Tariq Mahmood

  • Paper 0001

    Structure-Aware Temporal Gaussian Splatting for Maize Seedling Growth Registration and Visualization

    Zihan Zhang and Stefan Gumhold

  • Paper 4038

    AI-Powered Smart Glasses for Assisting Visually Impaired Individuals Using Real-Time Object Detection and Multilingual Text Recognition

    Sehrish Ahmed Sangrasi, Laiba Mushtaq, Fahad Rasheed, Abdul Ahad and Majida Kazmi

  • Paper 2712

    Improving Biometric Identification through automated enhancement of damaged fingerprints of aged and labour individuals

    Dr Majida Kazmi and Sharlet Khokhar

  • Paper 4471

    RGB Gain Residual Learning with Haar Restoration for Low-Light Enhancement

    Mengjiao Lu, Wanjun Wang and Mingyong Pang

  • Paper 4247

    Teaching Airline Ramp Handling Operations Using Virtual Reality: A Mixed-Methods Study of Learning, Motivation, and Moderators of Acceptance

    John Sim and Budianto Tandianus

  • Paper 7698

    Investigating Tracking Fidelity of Smartphone AR IK Avatars for Social Presence in Cross-Reality Collaboration

    Elhassan Makled, Christoph Gerhardt, Andy Schleising, Tobias Schwandt, Bea Vorhof and Wolfgang Broll

  • Paper 5270

    AI-Powered Real-Time Pakistan Sign Language Interpreter on a Vision Edge Node

    Mehwish Raza, Abdul Ahad Qureshi, Majida Kazmi, Abdul Rafay Jilani, Wamiq Irfan and Muhammad Amir Muhammad Amir

  • Paper 7485

    An OCT-Based Mapping Framework for Metamorphopsia Analysis

    Fanling Qin, Zhenyang Zhu, Zhenfei Wang, Gangyong Jia, Kenji Kashiwagi and Xiaoyang Mao

Short Papers

6 papers
  • Paper 4795

    Seeing the Retina Through Questions: An Evidence-Aware Visual Question Answering Framework for Diabetic Retinopathy

    Bisma Imran, Dua E Fatima, Majida Kazmi and M. A. Rehman Siddiqui

  • Paper 3853

    Comparative Evaluation of Fine-Tuned MMS-TTS and Orpheus TTS for Urdu Speech Synthesis on a Custom 123-Hour Corpus

    Fauzia Yasir, Hamza Munir Kidwai, Syed Muhammad and Majida Kazmi

  • Paper 3927

    Lightweight Deep Learning Model-based Meat Grilling Support System for Color Vision Deficiency

    Kangming Yan, Zhenyang Zhu and Xiaoyang Mao

  • Paper 7015

    EverFruit: A Mobile AR Game for Season-Independent Outdoor Learning

    Keisuke Watanabe, Takahiro Matsumura, Daisuke Inoue, Zhenyang Zhu and Xiaoyang Mao

  • Paper 9996

    Secure Edge Deployment of Machine Vision System on FPGA Platform: Reducing Cloud-Related Privacy and Security Risks

    Fakhra Aftab, Majida Kazmi, Muhammad Babar Ali, Aaliyan Mansoor, Mohib Ud Din and Muhammad Maaz Khan

  • Paper 2883

    Photovoltaic Planner: A Web-Based XR Digital Twin for Engineering Education

    Budianto Tandianus, Liang Tang, Aaron Zi Yi Seto, Liuziyi Liu, Derwin Yan, Shaun Jun Wei Goh, Gary Seah, Ryan Wen Ter Tan, Jian Bin Khiew, Zheng Wei Ng, Elie Hosry, Prasanna Ghali and Kai-Juan Wong

Track 2: Cognitive Human-machine Interaction

Full Papers

3 papers
  • Paper 3708

    Cross-cultural and Gender-dependent Investigation of User Perception for Embodied Conversational Agent

    Nathalia Sautchuk-Patricio and Matthias Wölfel

  • Paper 3487

    Gaze-Contingent Audio for Immersive Mobile Reading and Augmented Audiobooks

    Christoph Gerhardt, Syed Ajaz Haider Zaidi and Wolfgang Broll

  • Paper 5821

    Exploring VR-Based EOG Eye-Writing as a Hands-Free HCI Modality for Digit Recognition

    Ye-Ji Jin, Eidmann Ammienn Bin Eh Mi, Shun Tamura, Ainul Zahirah Zahruddin, Sharkhuu Dulamsuren, Xiaoyang Mao, Latifah Munirah Kamarudin and Won-Du Chang

Short Papers

2 papers
  • Paper 5250

    An Agentic Interview Paradigm for Human-Readable Analysis of Hearback Errors in Air Traffic Control

    Yanjie Zhang, Sun Yiteng, Li Donglin and Fan Li

  • Paper 6999

    Portable Lemon Grading System Featuring a Projection-Guided Free-Placement Workspace

    Ye-Seul Jang, Prawit Buayai, Panitan Muangkammuen, Suit Mun Ng, Hiromitsu Nishizaki and Xiaoyang Mao

Track 3: AI and Machine Learning

Full Papers

6 papers
  • Paper 9668

    Show Your Work: Faithful Neuro-Symbolic Proof-Traces for Embodied Agents in Cyberworlds

    Pier Mattia Basciano, Gianvito Antenori, Giovanni Farina and Salvatore Monteleone

  • Paper 2815

    ALEX: An Emotion-Aware Digital Human for Real-Time Human–Avatar Interaction

    Florian Gamillscheg and Ursula Augsdörfer

  • Paper 2998

    ML-TMSIoT: A Machine Learning-Based Trust Management Model for the Social Internet of Things

    Meriem Zouzou, Elhadj Benkhelifa and Nadia Kabchi

  • Paper 4440

    Cross-Medium Artist Verification Across Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures Using Pretrained Visual Embeddings

    Shaun Bottomley, Hassan Ugail, Jan Ritch-Frel and Irina Matuzava

  • Paper 3776

    Explainable Machine Learning for Predictive Maintenance Using Enterprise Operational Records

    Vivian Chiamaka Ijomah, Prof Tillal Eldabi and Dr Irfan Mehmood

  • Paper 7395

    Frugal Parkinson’s Tremor Screening from Smartphone Videos Using TCN-Attention

    Thiheebah Alwaer, Islem Jarraya, Wail Elwahshi, Sulieman Abod and Adel M. Alimi

Short Papers

2 papers
  • Paper 2568

    Beyond the Prompt: Evaluation of the Effect of Prompt Sensitivity on Brand Visibility in Large Language Models

    Noorfatima Khilji, Rosa Gutiérrez, Verity Zaffar and Irfan Mehmood

  • Paper 1248

    Evaluating Deep Face Recognition Embeddings for Facial Fatigue Classification

    Maida Alamgir, Irfan Mehmood and Hassan Ugail

Track 4: Cybersecurity for Cyberworlds

Full Papers

4 papers
  • Paper 7229

    Guarding Augmented Reality: A Verifiable Neuro-Symbolic Shield against Visual Information Manipulation

    Pier Mattia Basciano, Giovanni Farina and Salvatore Monteleone

  • Paper 7428

    Information Hiding in Modern Cyberspaces: Balancing Privacy, Security, and Covert Threat

    David Megías

  • Paper 3663

    Stormshadow: A Lightweight Framework for Single-Host Simulation of Distributed UDP Denial-of-Service Attacks

    Martin Harwood and Fatima Zahrah

  • Paper 3561

    Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation of an Integrated SDN–NFV–CASB Security Architecture for Mobile Cloud Computing

    Cyril Godwin Suetor, Daniele Scrimieri, Amna Qureshi and Fatima Zahrah

Short Papers

3 papers
  • Paper 6543

    Ensemble-Based Deepfake Detection: Robust Cross-Dataset Generalization with State-of-the-Art Models

    Haroon Wahab, Hassan Ugail and Ismail Lujain Jaleel

  • Paper 1548

    SIoT-Sim: A Realistic Dataset for Resilient Trust Management and AI-Driven Evaluation in Social Internet of Things

    Meriem Zouzou, Elhadj Benkhelifa and Nadia Kabchi

  • Paper 2403

    TransGAT-Guard: A Hybrid Transformer–Graph Attention Framework for Real-Time Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Software-Defined Networking

    Gokulraj G, Bose S, Danya S and Pradeep Kumar M