Proceedings available at: https://edas.info/getZip.php?c=33681&which=ap
Monday September 29, 2025
Venue: Campus Puerta de Toledo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
AOMedia Research Workshop Europe 2025
09:00 – 12:50
Location: Salón de Grados, Floor 0
Lunch
12:50 – 14:20
Location: Hotel Porcel Ganivet
Social Event – Evening Bites
21:00 – 23:00
Location: Understreet Market
Tuesday September 30, 2025
Venue: Campus Puerta de Toledo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Auditorio – Entrance, Floor -1
Opening
09:00 – 09:40
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Keynote 1. Isabelle Hupont – Rethinking QoE in the age of AI: Ethics, human oversight and the role of regulation
09:40 – 10:40
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Christian Timmerer
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:10
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Oral Session O1: Visual Quality and Volumetric Videos
11:10 – 12:50
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Marco Carli
- GS-QA: Comprehensive Quality Assessment Benchmark for Gaussian Splatting View Synthesis
Pedro Martin; António J. Rodrigues; João Ascenso; Maria Paula Queluz
- Emerging challenges in subjective quality assessment of volumetric videos in extended reality
Amar Tious; Toinon Vigier; Vincent Ricordel
- Fine-Grained HDR Image Quality Assessment From Noticeably Distorted to Very High Fidelity
Mohsen Jenadeleh; Jon Sneyers; Davi Lazzarotto; Shima Mohammadi; Dominik Keller; Atanas Boev; Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao; Antonio M. G. Pinheiro; Thomas Richter; Alexander Raake; Touradj Ebrahimi; João Ascenso; Dietmar Saupe
- Subjective Visual Quality Assessment for High-Fidelity Learning-Based Image Compression
Mohsen Jenadeleh; Jon Sneyers; Panqi Jia; Shima Mohammadi; João Ascenso; Dietmar Saupe
- Predicting subjective audiovisual quality of experience with oculomotor responses and perceptual video quality
Ekin Tünçok; Neel Chaudhari; Nathan Swedlow; Stephanie Reeves; Lie Lu; Scott Daly; Daniel P Darcy
Lunch
12:50 – 14:20
Location: Hotel Porcel Ganivet
Oral Session O2: Novel paradigms for QoE assessment
14:20 – 15:40
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Lucjan Janowski
- “Hello everyone”: Realistic Crowdsourcing-based QoE Assessment of Multi-party Video Conferencing
Fabian Poignée; Frank Loh; Michael Seufert; Tobias Hoßfeld
- Swiping, Fast and Slow: Assessing the QoE of Short-Form Videos via Crowdsourcing
Filip Simonovski; Samuel Hufen; Lisa Karl; Alperen Sayin; Nikolas Wehner; Tobias Hoßfeld; Michael Seufert
- From Individual QoE to Shared Mental Models: A Novel Evaluation Paradigm for Collaborative XR
Sam Van Damme; Jack Jansen; Silvia Rossi; Pablo Cesar
- Robustness and accuracy of mean opinion scores with hard and soft outlier detection
Dietmar Saupe; Tim Bleile
Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:00
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Special Session SS1+SS2: Intelligent Machines and Robotics & AI-driven Content
16:00 – 17:00
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Shirin Rafiei
- A Visual Quality of Experience Toolkit for Realistic Immersive Telepresence Applications
Manu Gond; Emin Zerman; Mohammadreza Shamshirgarha; Sebastian Knorr; Mårten Sjöström
- QoE and Task Performance Assessment of Mobile Robot Teleoperation via a VR-based Interface
Mateo Paladin; Lea Brzica; Filip Matanović; Damir Kljajić; Lea Skorin-Kapov
- An Efficient Quality Metric for Video Frame Interpolation Based on Motion-Field Divergence
Conall Daly; Darren A Ramsook; Anil Kokaram
Phd Mentoring
17:00 – 18:20
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chairs: Ester González-Sosa, Lukáš Krasula
Social Event – Welcome Reception
20:00
Location: Irreverente Madrid
Wednesday October 1, 2025
Venue: Campus Puerta de Toledo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Auditorio – Entrance, Floor -1
Keynote 2. Regina Bernhaupt – From Playful Probes to Interactive Dialogues: Reimagining Research Methods in the Age of LLMs and Digital Twins
09:00 – 10:00
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Jesús Guitérrez
Poster & Demo Session PD1
10:00 – 11:10
Poster Session
Location: Open Space (in front of Auditorio), Floor -1
Chair: Anna Ferrarotti and Jesús Gutiérrez
- Reasons to Replace Term Ecological Validity with Terms Mundane Realism and External Validity
Margaret H Pinson; Lucjan Janowski; Mark D Gross
- Gaussian Splatting vs. Classical Photogrammetry: A Comparison for Virtual Backdrops
Philipp Haslbauer; Mike Pullen; Carolin Reichherzer; Aljosa Smolic
- Extending QoE Research: Addressing Harassment in Social VR Through Feminist Digital Ethnography
Aleksandra Zheleva; Katleen Gabriels; Maria Torres Vega
- Balancing Privacy and Quality of Experience in VR: Towards A Research Agenda
Camille Sivelle; David Palma; Katrien De Moor
- Exploring Peripheral Visualization for Enhanced Manual Welding Quality
Roger Olsson; Abdulrahman Kanaa; Joakim Wahlsten
- Analysis of Objective 3D Mesh Quality Metrics for Cultural Heritage
Anna Ferrarotti; Isabel Rodríguez; Javier Uson; Sara Baldoni; Jesús Gutiérrez; Daniel Berjón; Francisco Morán; Federica Battisti; Narciso García; Marco Carli; Julián Cabrera
- Assessing the Influence of End-to-End Request Latency and Response Length on Waiting Time Satisfaction of LLM Users
Florian Schlechte; Yusra Tasnim Farooqi; Matthias Hirth
- Depth Matters: Quality of Experience in Stereoscopic 3D versus Conventional 2D Video Telephony
Robert P Spang; Mia S U V Toom; Leon Schreiber; Sebastian Möller
- A Dataset for Artefact Detection of Whole Slide Images in Digital Pathology
Tien Nguyen; Saeed Mahmoudpour; Guillaume E Courtoy; Wim Waelput; Ramses Forsyth; Jonas De Vylder; Bart Diricx; Jef Vandemeulebroucke; Peter Schelkens
SS3: Ensuring Comfort, Accessibility, and Safety in Extended Reality
- Exploring the Effect of Heights and User Stance on User Experience in Extended Reality Climbing
Tanja Kojic; Nathan Kirchner; Maurizio Vergari; Maximilian Warsinke; Sebastian Möller; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
- Finding My Way: Influence of Different Audio Augmented Reality Navigation Cues on User Experience and Subjective Usefulness
Sina Hinzmann; Francesco Vona; Juliane Henning; Mohamed Amer; Omar Abdellatif; Tanja Kojic; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
- Extending Beyond AGI: Designing a Tag-Based System for Filtering XR Content According to Comfort, Accessibility, and Safety Features
Sara Srebot; Eugen Preglej; Mirta Moslavac; Lea Skorin-Kapov
SS4: Mulsemedia Experiences: from design to QoE
- Virtual Gravity: Enhancing Weight Sensation in Virtual Reality with Haptic Interfaces
Marta Różycka; Sindja Lika; Jit Chatterjee; Carlos Rodriguez; Maria Torres Vega
- Subjective and Objective Evaluation of the Benefits of Multisensory Virtual Nature Immersion for Patients with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Marilia Karla Soares Lopes; Léa Perreault; Belmir J. de Jesus, Jr.; Marie-Claude Roberge; Tiago Falk
- Embodied design for inclusive XR learning system
Carlos Cortés; José Manuel; Vega-Cebrián; Pablo Pérez; María Nava-Ruiz; Narciso García; Elena Márquez Segura
Demo Session
Location: WoW Room (Lab -1L04), Floor -1
Chair: Carlos Cortés, Telmo Zarraonandia
- MEET: The Music Event Emotion Tracking Metaverse
Luigi Atzori; Gulnaziye Bingol; Concetta Cantone; Nicola Conci; Matteo Fasa; Alessandro Floris; Giulia Martinelli; Marina Samarotto; Salvatore Serrano
- Haptic Symphony: Enabling Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals to Experience Music Through Haptic Devices and XR Technology
Daniel Hewitt; Tupac Martir; Niall Murray; Conor Keighrey
- Immersive Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage: a Framework for investigating QoE aspects of interaction in Virtual Reality
Eugenio Giuseppe Nerelli; Alvaro Egea; Jaume Segura-Garcia; Mario Montagud
- Quality of Experience Assessment for Streamed Social Extended Reality Applications over Heterogeneous Access Networks (demo from full paper)
Karan Mitra; Henrique Souza Rossi; Justin Gavrell; Christer Åhlund
- Redirected Walking for Multi-User eXtended Reality Experiences with Confined Physical Spaces (demo from full paper)
Gijs Fiten; Jit Chatterjee; Kobe Vanhaeren; Mattis Martens; Maria Torres Vega
- Virtual Gravity: Enhancing Weight Sensation in Virtual Reality with Haptic Interfaces (demo from short paper)
Marta Różycka; Sindja Lika; Jit Chatterjee; Carlos Rodriguez; Maria Torres Vega
Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:30
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Special Session SS3: Ensuring Comfort, Accessibility, and Safety in Extended Reality
11:30 – 12:50
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Sara Srebot
- Redirected Walking for Multi-User eXtended Reality Experiences with Confined Physical Spaces
Gijs Fiten; Jit Chatterjee; Kobe Vanhaeren; Mattis Martens; Maria Torres Vega
- Assessing the Influence of Visual Factors in Virtual Environments on Raycasting Precision and Accuracy
Daniel Nikulin; Maximilian Warsinke; Maurizio Vergari; Sebastian Möller; Tanja Kojic
- Size Matters: The Impact of Avatar Size on User Experience in Healthcare Applications
Navid Ashrafi; Francesco Vona; Sina Hinzmann; Juliane Henning; Maurizio Vergari; Maximilian Warsinke; Catarina Pinto Moreira; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
- The Impact of Spatial Misalignment and Time Delay on Collaborative Presence in Augmented Reality
Michael Stern; Maurizio Vergari; Julia Schorlemmer; Francesco Vona; David Karl Grieshammer; Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons
Lunch
12:50 – 14:20
Location: Hotel Porcel Ganivet
Panel on QoE Methodology
14:20 – 15:40
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Panel Chairs: Kamil Koniuch, Esen Küçüktütüncü
Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:00
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Oral Session O3: QoE in Gaming and Personalization
16:00 – 17:20
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Tanja Kojic
- QoE in Multi-user Collaborative Virtual Reality Games: Impact of Network and Avatar Quality
Gulnaziye Bingol; Lazizjon Suyunov; Zukhriddin Kamolov; Alessandro Floris; Simone Porcu; Luigi Atzori
- The Double-Edged Impact of User Customisation on QoE in Personalised Media Experiences
Tomasz Lyko; Edward Austin; Alexander Lee; Yehia Elkhatib; Nicholas Race
- Timing Matters: The Impact of Event-Specific Frametime Spikes in First-Person Shooter Games
Samin Shahriar Tokey; Ben Boudaoud; Joohwan Kim; Josef Spjut; Mark Claypool
- Evaluating the Impact of Playout Buffer Policies on Cloud Gaming QoE
Xiaokun Xu; Mark Claypool
Social Event – Guided Visit to Reina Sofia Museum
18:30 – 20:00
Location: Museo Reina Sofía
Social Event – Banquet Dinner
20:00
Location: Restaurante NuBel
Thursday October 2, 2025
Venue: Campus Puerta de Toledo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Registration
08:30 – 09:00
Location: Auditorio – Entrance, Floor -1
Keynote 3. Michele Zorzi – QoE/QoS management in communication networks
09:00 – 10:00
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Tobias Hoßfeld
Poster & Demo Session PD2
10:00 – 11:10
Poster Session
Location: Open Space (in front of Auditorio), Floor -1
Chair: Kjell Brunnström
- Why That Rating? Explainable Data-Driven Opinion Score Distribution Models for Video QoE
Edward Austin; Tomasz Lyko; Nicholas Race
- Students Perception and Game Experience Analysis of a Serious Game for Green Education
Ana Radović; Ivana Slošić; Jurica Babic; Alejandra Boni
- Decoding Audience Emotional Responses from Low-Level Content Features
Isabel Rodrigues; Michael Wray; Sarah Connolly; Angeliki Katsenou
- Exploring Metric Fusion for Evaluation of NeRFs
Shreyas Shivakumara; Gabriel Eilertsen; Karljohan Lundin Palmerius
- Generative Image Quality Assessment Agent
Vishwajeet Shukla; Ajay Bedi
- Gaze in the Machine: The Paradox of Artificial Eye Contact in Video Calls
Leonie Eveline Wichers; Leon Schreiber; Sebastian Möller; Robert P Spang
- Cognitive Fog under Elevated CO2: The Influence of Air Quality on Speech Quality Assessment and Response Behaviour
Leon Schreiber; Benedikt Schuh; Kirill Shchegelskiy; Wafaa Wardah; Tuğçe M Koçak Büyüktaş; Sebastian Möller; Robert P Spang
- Lead Rush: A First-Person Shooter for User Studies and Understanding Effects of Frame Time Spikes
Samin Shahriar Tokey; Ben Boudaoud; Josef Spjut; Joohwan Kim; Mark Claypool; Peter Xenopoulos
- Reflex – An Open-source Tool for Measuring Human Reaction Times
Xiaokun Xu; Mark Claypoo
Special Session SS1: Advancing QoE and UX in Teleoperation Interfaces for Intelligent Machines and Robotics
- User Study on Visual Interface Helpfulness in Remote Inspection Tasks Using Teleoperation
Shirin Rafiei; Kjell Brunnström; Gabriele Pifferi; Bo Schenkman; Anders Djupsjöbacka; Börje Andrén; Mårten Sjöström
Special Session SS5: QoE-aware Management, Architectures and Models in the Networks of the Future
- QoE Assessment of PC Cloud-based Gaming over Heterogeneous Access Networks
Henrique Souza Rossi; Karan Mitra; Tore Myhr; David Lindero; Niclas Ögren
- Immersive Education: An Exploratory Experiment On Holographic Cabins For Education Over 5G
Adrian Rodrigo; David Gomez-Barquero; Miguel Ángel Ramos; Sergio Llorca
- From Systems to Socials: Rethinking QoE-Centric Telecom XR Standardisation Efforts for Social XR
Mirta Moslavac; Sara Srebot; Lea Skorin-Kapov
- Automated Mobile Video Objective Testing System
Eric Petajan; Jonathan Lynam; Morey Antebi; Hessam Moeini; David Lindero; Lars Ernström; Gyanesh Patra; Szilveszter Nádas
Demo Session
Location: WoW Room (Lab -1L04), Floor -1
Chair: Carlos Cortés, Telmo Zarraonandia
- QoL Through QoE: A Multimodal Sensor Glove for Ulnar Nerve Palsy Telerehabilitation
Aaron William McEvoy; Niall Murray; Conor Keighrey
- 5GVIREH: a 5G-enabled virtual reality based solution for telerehabilitation
Anna Ferrarotti; Michele Brizzi; Erica Rocchi; Alessia Fabrizio; Arianna Carnevale; Umile Giuseppe Longo; Marco Carli
- TEEB: Trans-European Stereoscopic 360-degree Event Broadcasting
Markus Fiedler; Jonas Svegland
- Enabling Real-Time Collaborative Cultural Experiences with Free Viewpoint Video
Javier Uson; Victoria Muñoz; Carlos Cortés; Isabel Rodríguez; César Díaz; Jesús Gutiérrez; Julián Cabrera
Coffee Break
11:10 – 11:30
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Special Session SS5: QoE-aware Management, Architectures and Models in the Networks of the Future
11:30 – 12:50
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Lea Skorin-Kapov
- Modeling Key Quality Indicators of Short-Form Video Preloading Strategies
Nikolas Wehner; Francois Blouin; Michel Ouellette; Pablo Pérez; Tobias Hoßfeld
- Leveraging Multi-View Learning for Quality of Experience Prediction Models
Matteo Fratta; Simone Porcu; Giulia Martinelli; Alessandro Floris; Luigi Atzori
- Quality of Experience Assessment for Streamed Social Extended Reality Applications over Heterogeneous Access Networks
Karan Mitra; Henrique Souza Rossi; Justin Gavrell; Christer Åhlund
- Data Augmentation for QoL-Centered Functional Vision Research: Synthetic Human Behavior Generation in Virtual Reality
Yujie Huang; Kevin Riou; Alexandre Bruckert; Patrick Le Callet
Lunch
12:50 – 14:20
Location: Hotel Porcel Ganivet
Oral Session O4: Databases, Benchmarks, and Replicability in QoE Research
14:20 – 15:40
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Simone Porcu
- Video Quality Assessment Dataset with Advanced AI and QoE Metrics for TeleOperated Driving
Ignacio Benito Frontelo; Pablo Pérez; Marta Orduna
- A Large-Scale Evaluation of Subject Rating Behaviour in Visual Quality Assessment Studies
Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao; Steve Göring; Stephan Fremerey; Dominik Keller; Alexander Raake
- Impact of User Content Preference on Video QoE: A Subjective Study
Kerim Hodžić; Mirsad Cosovic; Jason J Quinlan; Darijo Raca
- Behavioral Biometrics for Automatic Detection of User Familiarity in VR
Numan Zafar; Priyo Ranjan Kundu Prosun; Shafique A Chaudhry
Coffee Break
15:40 – 16:00
Location: Cantina, Floor -1
Oral Session O5: Objective models for QoE and media quality
16:00 – 17:20
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Emin Zerman
- MVAW-PCQA: A No-reference Point Cloud Quality Assessment via Multi-View Adaptive Weighting
MohammadAli Hamidi; Simone Porcu; Alessandro Floris; Luigi Atzori
- Local Structure Matters: A Graph-Based Approach to Point Cloud Perceptual Quality Assessment
Abderrezzaq Sendjasni; Chaker Larabi
- ViGBLiF: A Graph-Based Approach to No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment
Myllena De Almeida Prado; Mylene Farias
- Perceptual Quality Assessment of Compressed Volumetric Human Holographic Sequences at Varying Viewing Distances in VR
Mohamad Hjeij; Mario Montagud; David Rincón-Rivera; Leonel Toledo; Sergi Fernández
Springer Quality and User Experience (QUEX) Session
17:20 – 17:50
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Chair: Katrien de Moor (Editor-in-chief)
The goal of this session is to involve the community in discussing the future of the Quality and User Experience journal. For example, regarding the overall aims and scope, concrete topics for special issues, potential barriers that authors experience, etc. It will include time to brainstorm around potential novel formats and possibilities.
Closing Session
17:50 – 18:20
Location: Auditorio, Floor -1
Social Event – After Party
21:30
Location: Lovo Cocktail Bar
Friday October 3, 2025
Venue: Fundación Juan XXIII, Avenida Gran Vía del Este, 1, Vicálvaro, Madrid
Workshop: Walking in their shoes – A Real Reality Experience
09:30 – 16:00
The entrance to QoMEx 2025 is located at this point. Signage will guide attendees from the surrounding streets to the entrance. Please follow the marked route. From this location, you can continue with the next venue floor plan, starting at Point 1.
