Contents

Main Conference Papers

• Impact of Texture Resolution, Polygon Count, Quality Level, and Viewing Distance on Volumetric Avatar Visual Quality
  William Menz, Jakob Hartbrich, Abhinav Bhattacharya, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Steve Göring and Alexander Raake.


• Towards a Digital Twin of the Human Kidney for Diagnosis of Renal Diseases
  Fenfen Qi, Yingzhi Liu, Yujie Gong, Jing-Yuan Wang, Rongliang Chen, Pengzhi Hu, Li Luo and Xiao-Chuan Cai.


• Metaverse Distributed Storages: High Availability Quantification using Stochastic Reward Nets
  Damsub Lim, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi, Dugki Min, Iure Fe, Francisco Airton Silva and Paulo Maciel.


• Offline Modeling and Mixed Reality Based Remote Diagnosis System for Patient-Specific Cardiovascular Diseases
  Jing-Yuan Wang, Yujie Gong, Yuxin Shan, Fenfen Qi, Yingzhi Liu, Zhengzheng Yan, Zaiheng Cheng, Xinhong Wang, Rongliang Chen, Li Luo and Xiao-Chuan Cai.


• MetaFarm: Toward Solar Smart Farm with Metaverse through Modbus Interworking
  Jieun Lee, Jaehyung Jeong and Jaeseung Song.


• Multi-AGV Assisted OPS in Warehouse Using Digital Twins and Layout Comparison
  Haruka Kagami, Ruidong Li and Hao Gong.


• Adaptive Semantic Communication for Gaze-guided Stereo Media Transmission
  Jingxuan Men, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Ning Wang, Yi Ma and Mike Nilsson.


• Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based High Data Rate Transmission Techniques for Metaverse
  Buseong Jo and Mun-Suk Kim.


• PRISM-XR: Predictive Real-Time Intelligent Streaming for 360-Degree Multimedia
  Sam Shippey, Suresh Srinivasan, Ehsan Aryafar and Jacob Chakareski.


• UnionChain: A Graph-based Shard Partitioning for Scalable Smart Contract Execution
  Toshiki Takakubo, Yinfeng Cao, Ruidong Li and Jiannong Cao.


• GANeRFine: Universal NeRF Output Refinement via GANs for High-Quality Results
  Ankan Dash, Jingyi Gu and Guiling Wang.


• PGELU: Metaverse-Driven Deep Learning Boosted by A Parametric GELU for Stable and Scalable Recognition of Emotions and 3D Objects
  Seunghyeop Nam, Seunghyeon Kang, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi and Dugki Min.


• How does Face Detection Help Multi-person Tracking and Recognition in Metaverse 360 Degree Videos?
  Haimo Zhang, Ziyue Liu, Yusi Yuan and Kaigui Bian.


• Hybrid Satellite-Ground Deployments for Web3 DID: \System Design and Performance Analysis
  Yalin Liu, Zhigang Yan, Bingyuan Luo, Xiaochi Xu, Hong-Ning Dai and Yaru Fu.


• Metaverse Security: LLM-Based Malicious Code Detection Through Token Optimization
  Seongmin Park, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Dugki Min and Eunmi Choi.


• TruChain: A Multi-Layer Architecture for Trusted, Verifiable, and Immutable Open Banking Data
  Aufa Nasywa Rahman, Bimo Sunarfri Hantono and Guntur Dharma Putra.


• A Lightweight Blockchain Authentication for Digital Twin Satellite networks in Metaverse Connectivity
  Mingyi Zhang, Guanjie Li, Chao He, Yao Wang, Tom H Luan and Hongbin Liang.


• Artificial Intelligence Service Provision with Secure Federated Learning in Metaverse
  Qichao Xu, Zhou Su, Mengzhen Cheng, Yuntao Wang and Minghui Dai.


• A Lightweight Decentralized Authentication Protocol with Anonymity and Traceability for Web3.0 Applications
  Jing Lei, Ting Qin, Yuepu Liu, Jie Feng, Lei Liu, Qingqi Pei and Mianxiong Dong.


• Auditory Stimulus Attack in XR: Stimulus Characteristics and Technical Background Considerations
  Kousei Otsuka and Akira Kanaoka.


• TACTIC: Tactical AR/VR Configurable Tracker Investigating Compactness Limits in the Metaverse
  Alireza Famili, Tolga Atalay and Angelos Stavrou.


• MetaClues: Constructivist Learning via Progressive Clues from Generative AI in a Metaverse Environment
  Echo G. W. Hui, Martin M. T. Choy and William K. W. Cheung.


• Beyond the Classroom: Revolutionizing Child Therapy with Virtual Reality Immersion
  Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Wen-Chun Chen and Stefan Wagner.


• Bidirectional Age of Incorrect Information: A Performance Metric for Status Updates in Virtual Dynamic Environments
  Chiara Schiavo, Manuele Favero, Alessandro Buratto and Leonardo Badia.


• AWSIM-VR: A Tightly-Coupled Virtual Reality Extension for Human-in-the-Loop Pedestrian-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction
  Shangkai Zhang, Alex Orsholits, Ehsan Javanmardi and Manabu Tsukada.


• Influence of 4th-Order Ambisonics Audio on the Perceived Quality and Exploration Behavior of 360° Videos
  William Menz, Abhinav Bhattacharya, Thomas Robotham, Felix Immohr, Rakesh Rao Ramachandra Rao, Steve Göring, Emanuel Habets and Alexander Raake.

Short Papers

• Metaverse Cloud-Edge Computing: On Aging Dependability of a Cloud-Edge-in-the-loop Simulation Platform for AAM Vehicle Digital Twin
  Tuan Anh Nguyen, Damsub Lim, Seunghyeop Nam, Dugki Min, Eunmi Choi, Iure Fe, Franciso Airton Silva and Paulo Maciel.


• TeleAvatar: Real-Time 3D Avatar Streaming via Semantic Communication and Hybrid IK for Mobile XR
  Pedro Regalado and Tao Han.


• Generative AI-Driven VFX Pipelines for Real-Time Immersive Content Creation in the Metaverse
  Aylin Mehrvarzan and Lilia Tightiz.


• 4D Path Planning via Spatiotemporal Voxels in Urban Airspaces
  Naren Bao, Alex Orsholits and Manabu Tsukada.


• IoT system with AR capabilities for Replication of Mechatronic Processes at an Educational Level
  Arys Carrasquilla-Batista and Luis Valverde-Segura.


• Design of a Smooth Dynamic Digital Twin for Industrial Object Tracking
  Jeongran Lee, Vishnu D. Sharma, Lou Salaun and Matthew Andrews.


• Re-Clustering for High-Performance Metaverse in Vehicular Networks
  Olanrewaju Ahmed, Wanqing Tu, Kayode Popoola and David Grace.


• Deep Reinforcement Learning for the Optimization of Metaverse Service Quality
  Ziyue Wang, Ruidong Li and Dusit Niyato.


• LLM Optimization Without Data Sharing: A Split Learning Paradigm
  Omar Basubeit, Abdulaziz Alenazi, Boris Radovic, Ameera Milibari, Marco Canini and Zuhair Khayyat.


• Fast and Interactive Byzantine Fault-tolerant Web Services via Session-Based Consensus Decoupling
  Ahmad Zaki Akmal, Azkario Rizky Pratama and Guntur Dharma Putra.


• Exploring Peoples' Trust towards AI with Human Motions in a Virtual Evacuation Study
  Feng Tong, Ruohan Wang, Depeng Xu and Aidong Lu.


• Image Movement Attacks on Optical See-Through HMDs: Covert Gaze Manipulation and Privacy Risks in AR/MR Systems
  Shodai Kurasaki and Akira Kanaoka.


• An Attribute-Revocable Hierarchical Access Control Scheme for Data Sharing in Cloud-Edge-End Environments
  Kaifa Zheng, Junxu Zhou, Shuai Ou, Zhen Xu, Jiayi Liu and Chenling Bai.


• Immersive Future: A Case Study of Metaverse in Preparing Students for Career Readiness
  Leyli Nouraei Yeganeh, Amber Simpson, Nicole Fenty, Mohsen Hatami, Seungmin Rho and Yu Chen.


• Lang2Pose: Language-Based Visual Servoing and Pose Control for Autonomous Pick-and-Place in Real and Simulated Environments
  Hyeonsu Oh, Haryun Jeong, Seonghan Shin and Jaeho Kim.


• MetaUniTour: Enhancing Engagement and Intercultural Understanding through A Metaverse Tourism Platform
  Kohei Matsumoto, Yoshiki Watanabe, Kaiya Shimura, Nozomi Hayashida, Shin Katayama, Kenta Urano, Nobuo Kawaguchi, Soko Aoki, Leleito Emanuel and Takuro Yonezawa.


• Campus-Scale Waste Collection Challenge: A Unified Framework for Robotic Perception, Navigation, and Manipulation
  Hyeonsu Oh, Sejung Kim, Donghoon Lee, Pyongjoo Kim and Jaeho Kim.

Invited Papers

• QoE of Syntax, Freeze, and Texture Repair Techniques for Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
  Thi My Chinh Chu, Muhammad Imran Iqbal, Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Siamak Khatibi, Yao Yong, Fatemeh Tavakoli, Momin Jamil, Rolf Esslinger and Trung Q. Duong.


• Bridging Real and Virtual Worlds: A Blockchain-IoT-Agent Framework for the Metaverse
  Tim Weingaertner.


• TDM-MIMO Radar-Based Low-Altitude UAV Sensing and Communication
  Yi Tao, Zhuoran Li, Zhen Gao and De Mi.


• Fairness-Aware Multi-Agent Learning-based Task Offloading in Dynamic Vehicular Scenarios
  Ziqi Zhou, Agon Memedi, Chunghan Lee, Seyhan Ucar, Onur Altintas and Falko Dressler.


• Blockchain and Smart Contract-Based Framework for Crowdsourcing Computation in Web 3.0
  Bimal Ghimire, Danda B. Rawat and Yuba Raj Siwakoti.


• The Metaverse in Smart Industrial Environments: from Vision to Proof-of-Concept
  Paolo Bellavista, Michele Brigadoi, Armir Bujari, Angelo Feraudo and Andrea Garbugli.


• Dynamic buffer sizing using Reinforcement Learning in ORAN
  Qihang Jiao, Siling Wang, Lotfi Mhamdi, Maryam Hafeez and Syed A. R. Zaidi.


• Influence Message Wargaming in the Metaverse: Towards LLM-Based Persuasion and Counter-Persuasion
  Xinyi Liu, Dachun Sun and Tarek Abdelzaher.


• CD2Linear: Convolution-based Federated Learning for Efficient Time Series Forecasting in the Metaverse
  Duy Phuong Nguyen, Chianing Wang and Onur Altintas.


• RSMA-aided Multiuser Gaussian Splatting Transmission
  Anthony Chen, Shiwen Mao, Zhu Li, Dusit Niyato and Zhu Han.

Workshop Papers

• CARDIO-CARE: A Deep Learning-Powered IoT Recommender System for Cardiovascular Disease Classification
  Tayyaba Shahwar, Abhignya Jagathpally, Priyan Malarvizhi Kumar and Balasubramanian Prabhu Kavin.


• Decoding Social Media Engagement: A Behavioral Lens on Usage Patterns, Demographics, and College Students’ Gratification Needs
  Jay-Ar Dimaculangan, Carol Matira and Cheriffer Laguitao.


• KyberVerse: Secure Kyber-based Post Quantum Communication Framework for User-to-Avatar and Avatar-to-Avatar in the Metaverse
  Sandeep Kumar Jangir, Ranjan Baro, Avinash Awasthi, Pritam Vediya, Ramesh Babu Battula and Dinesh Gopalani.


• Virtual Companionship in Metaverse Applications Threat Assessment
  Arpita Sarang and Ki-Woong Park.


• The Metaverse as a Living Space: A Discussion of Privacy Protection Issues Considering Media Evolution
  Yuto Kunitake and Ku Miyashita.


• Towards Democratizing Security Analysis: Building Lightweight LLMs for Smart Contract Audit
  Bagus Rakadyanto Oktavianto Putra, Guntur Dharma Putra and Widyawan Widyawan.


• Exploring Machine Learning Algorithms to Boost Functional Verification: A Comprehensive Survey
  Princy Tyagi.


• Leveraging the Metaverse for Innovative Education: Integrating Immersive Technologies and Active Learning Methodologies
  Jefer Benedett Dorr and Linnyer Beatrys Ruiz Aylon.


• Adaptive Prompting in the Metaverse: An Iterative Prompt Optimization Framework for Enhancing LLM Performance Across Diverse Tasks
  Hayoung Park, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Dugki Min and Eunmi Choi.


• Metaverse-Ready Simulation: Advancing Sim-to-Real by Reinforcement Learning for TurtleBot in ROS2 and Unreal Engine
  Hyunseok Kang, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi and Dugki Min.


• Detection of Deepfake Videos and Audios on Social Media Platforms
  Charles Fross and Qingzhong Liu.


• An ensemble approach to enhance accuracy and robustness of persistent malware detection in-vehicle infotainment system
  Joseph Raymond V, Sivaneasan Bala Krishnan, Senthil Murugan V and Prasun Chakrabarti.

Posters

• Metaverse meets ICN: Low-Latency, Synchronous Communications for XR/AR Applications
  Yusaku Hayamizu, Toshiyuki Ihara and Hitoshi Asaeda.


• A Study on Reliable Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Network
  Shintaro Mori.


• Prototype MR Drone Programming Using Scratch for Education
  Jun Sakurai, Minoru Kobayashi, Masanori Ikebe and Yasuo Kawai.


• A Survey on Digital Twins for Multi-User Synchronization in Human-centered IRs
  Bowen Qin, Yan Hu and Kurt Tutschku.


• AI-Powered Agricultural Parcel Measurement Using Aerial Imagery: Toward Smart Farming in the Metaverse Era
  Gamulescu Oliviu Mihnea, Risteiu Marius Nicolae and Monica Leba.


• Cyber Threat Detection using Web-Scraping
  Arnav Srivastava, Manaswita Verma, Sonu Kumar and Joseph Raymond V.


• Bike Rental Demand Using Machine Learning: A Data-Driven Approach
  Ashish Kumar Singh, Shiya Chopra, Jagpreet Singh, Tanmay Garg, Manan Dhawan and Ajay Pal Singh.


• IoT Gateway: Wireless Network Solution For Smart Agriculture
  Soubhik Baral and Nidhi Jain.