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
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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.
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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.
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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.
Meeting Overview
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.
Programme
| Start | End | Event |
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| 09.30 | 10.00 | Registration and Coffee |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Prof. Danae Stanton Fraser & Prof. Iain Gilchrist (University of Bath & Bristol) – MyWorld |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Maciej Pedzisz (Nokia) - DVIFM: Distortion Visibility Image Fidelity Measure |
| 12:00 | 12:30 | Pui Anantrasirichai (University of Bristol) - Low-light and underwater video enhancement |
| 12:30 | 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Dr. Lucas Theis (Mabyduck) - Realism-distortion trade-offs with people |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Yiannis Andreopoulos (Sony Interactive Entertainment) - Quality Aspects of Interactive Game Streaming |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Dounia Hammou (University of Cambridge) - ColorVideoVDP-ML: Visual Difference Predictor with a neural regressor for quality prediction |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Yixuan Li (City University of Hong Kong) - AI-generated Image Quality Assessment in Visual Communication |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Hanhe Lin (University of Dundee) - MMP-2K: A Benchmark Multi-Labeled Macro Photography Image Quality Assessment Database |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Xinyi Wang (University of Bristol) - Caption-Embedded Multimodal Perception for No-Reference Quality Assessment of Compressed Video |
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.
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