Human-Centric Computing in the Age of AI Track (part 1)

Hosted by Prof. Siyu Tang and Prof. Philipp Fürnstahl

Organizer and Session Chair: Dr. Manuel Kaufmann, Dr. Flora Vajda, Dr. Christina Tsalicoglou

In Human-Centric Computing we aim to build methods and representations to  better understand how humans move within the physical world and interact with it.  Progress in this domain offers to unlock a number of appealing applications. In this track we set out to highlight these latest advances for mixed reality applications, where the physical world can be reconstructed and augmented with interactive features and generated objects. For instance, medical AR applications can improve the learning process for medical professionals, telepresence can enable more efficient remote meetings, and AR can provide fascinating immersive experiences for entertainment. Further, we provide segments on biomedical applications that benefit from human-like machine perception such as personalized health assistants that can, e.g., automatically diagnose and prevent movement pathologies, support cost-effective rehabilitation in patient’s homes, or provide an expert level fitness coach from the comfort of people’s smartphones.

Learning Objectives The field of Human-Centric Computer Vision is very diverse. The goal of this workshop is to give the audience a broad overview of:

a) which aspects of the human state practitioners in academia and industry are interested in modeling,

b) what kind of technology is used to capture the physical world in the first place, and

c) the applications of mixed reality.

Professionals from industry, academia, and start-ups will present their latest research, discuss challenges, and outline future prospects around the topic, showcasing the expertise offered by institutions in and around Zurich.

We will close the track with demos, providing real-word examples of what is possible with the current technologies in the field and a panel discussion.

SCHEDULE

Format: 20-minute talks, with 5-10 minutes of questions

14:00-14:30

Speaker: Prof. Mirko Meboldt

Affiliation: Professor, Institute for Machine Tools and Manufacturing, Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zürich

14:30 - 15:00

Speaker: Dr. Juan Zarate

Affiliation: Senior Scientist, Institute for Intelligent Interactive Systems, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

15:00 - 15:30

Speaker: Christoph Züger (Product Owner Viz AI) & Dr. Janick Cardinale (Head of Product Development Sports)

Affiliation: Vizrt AG, Zürich

15:30 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30

Speaker: Dr. Philipp Thomann

Affiliation: Managing Consultant, D-ONE

16:30 - 17:00

Speaker: Dr. Anna Volokitin

Affiliation: Applied Scientist, Zalando

17:00 - 17:30

Speaker: Dr. Sebastiano Caprara & Claudio Mirti

Affiliation: Head Digital Medicine Unit at Balgrist University Hospital & Microsoft Switzerland

17:30 - 18:00

Demo pitches from Prof. Mirko Meboldt, Dr. Fabio Carrillo (OR-X), and Dr. Stefan Tuchschmid (Scanvio)