One Day Meeting: BMVA Symposium on Media Quality

Wednesday 4 February 2026

Chairs: Alex Mackin (Prime Video), Angeliki Katsenou (Sony Interactive Entertainment), Fan Zhang (University of Bristol), Nabajeet Barman (Sony Interactive Entertainment)

Queries? contact the Meeting's Organiser Andrew Gilbert here

Invited Speakers

• Prof. Danae Stanton Fraser (University of Bath): Co-Director of MyWorld and HCI expert, pioneering research in how humans interact with and learn from immersive technologies.

• Prof. Iain Gilchrist (University of Bristol): Research Director of MyWorld and visual cognition expert, combining expertise in human attention and eye movements with next-generation media technologies.

• Dr. Lucas Theis (Mabyduck): Former Google DeepMind researcher and founder of Mabyduck, known for his groundbreaking work in neural network-based compression and information theory.

Call for Presentations

The British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) is pleased to announce its upcoming one-day symposium on Media Quality. This event aims to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners from academia and industry to explore recent advances in image and video quality assessment, perception, and optimization.

Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to):

• Classical & Deep Learning Quality Models
• Perceptual Quality & Psychophysics
• Quality of Experience
• Immersive Technologies
• Medical Image Quality
• Computer Graphics Quality Assessment
• Compression Artifacts and Solutions
• Robustness in Quality Assessment
• Novel Datasets and Benchmarks
• Quality in Computational Imaging
• Quality Assessment for Novel Imaging Systems
• Generative AI Quality Metrics
• Non-Visible Band Imaging Quality
• Human Visual Perception
• Quality in Mixed/Virtual Reality

Presentation Formats:

• Talks
• Posters
• Demos

Important Dates: Presentation Submission Deadline: 27th November 2025 Symposium Date: 4th February 2026

Important: This is an in-person event held at the British Computer Society, with no virtual attendance option. We kindly ask all presenters to join us on-site.

Presentations can be either published work, or ongoing research.

Meeting Location

The meeting will take place at:

British Computer Society (BCS), 25 Copthall Avenue, London EC2R 7BP

Registration

We keep the cost of attending these events as low as possible to ensure no barriers from the whole computer vision community attending. The registration costs are as follows

• All Attendees: £30 Including lunch and refreshments for the day