Program

Program

The workshop will be held on Sept 29, from 2PM to 6PM (Central European Time) in room Amber 5

INTRODUCTION

14:00 / 14:05, Iuri Frosio (NVIDIA), Introduction

KEYNOTE 1

14:05 / 14:35, Tim Pearce (Microsoft) & Sam Devlin (Microsoft), WHAM! World and Human Action Modelling in a Modern Xbox Game

LONG TALKS (2x)

14:35 / 14:50, Z. Wang (Univ. of Central Florida), M. Li (Univ. of Central Florida), C. Chen (Univ. of Central Florida), LucidDreaming: Controllable Object-Centric 3D Generation

14:50 / 15:05, N. Rasajski (Univ. of Malta), C. Trivedi (Univ. of Malta), K. Makantasis (Univ. of Malta), A. Liapis (Inst. of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta), G. N. Yannakakis (Inst. of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta), BehAVE: Behaviour Alignment of Video Game Encodings [Best paper award]

SHORT TALKS (5x)

15:05 / 15:10, C. Lee (Concordia Univ.), M. D. Perepichka (Ubisoft), S. Ghorbani (Ubisoft), S. Mudur (Concordia Univ.), E. Paquette (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Canada), T. Popa (Concordia Univ.), Real-Time Neural Cloth Deformation using a Compact Latent Space and a Latent Vector Predictor

15:10 / 15:15, D. Rege Cambrin (Politecnico di Torino), G. Scaffidi Militone (Politecnico di Torino), L. Colomba (Politecnico di Torino), G. Malnati (Politecnico di Torino), D. Apiletti (Politecnico di Torino), P. Garza (Politecnico di Torino), Level Up Your Tutorials: VLMs for Game Tutorials Quality Assessment

15:15 / 15:20, K. Pinitas (Inst. of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta), K. Makantasis (Univ. of Malta), G. N. Yannakakis (Inst. of Digital Games, Univ. of Malta), Across-Game Engagement Modelling via Few-Shot Learning

15:20 / 15:25, V. Davoodnia (Queen's Univ.), S. Ghorbani (Ubisoft), A. Messier (Ubisoft), A. Etemad (Queen's Univ.), SkelFormer: Markerless 3D Pose and Shape Estimation using Skeletal Transformers

15:25 / 15:30, A. Hallak (Technion), G. Dalal (NVIDIA), C. Tessler (NVIDIA), Y. Guo (NVIDIA), S. Mannor (NVIDIA), G. Chechik (NVIDIA), PlaMo: Plan and Move in Rich 3D Physical Environments

BREAK

15:30 / 16:00, Coffee break

KEYNOTE 2

16:00 / 16:20, Sergey Tulyakov (Snap research), Game-Changing Synergy: Towards Game Design using Video Models

LONG TALKS (3x)

16:20 / 16:35, S. Vainer (Unity), M. Boss (Stability AI), M. Parger (Graz Univ. of Technology), K. Kutsy (Unity Technologies), D. De Nigris (Unity Technologies), C. Rowles (Unity Technologies), N. Perony (Unity Technologies), S. Donné (Unity Technologies), Collaborative Control for Geometry-Conditioned PBR Image Generation

16:35 / 16:50, C. Tessler (Technion), Y. Guo (NVIDIA), O. Nabati (Technion), G. Chechik (NVIDIA), X. Bin Peng (Simon Fraser Univ.), MaskedMimic: Unified Physics-Based Character Control Through Masked Motion Inpainting

16:50 / 17:05, R. Shinohara (Nara Inst. of Science and Technology), A. Hashimoto (OMRON SINIC X Corp.), T. Kozuno (OMRON SINIC X Corp.), S. Yoshida (OMRON SINIC X Corp.), Y. Hirao (Nara Inst. of Science and Technology), M. Perusquía-Hernández (Nara Inst. of Science and Technology), H. Uchiyama (Nara Inst. of Science and Technology), K. Kiyokawa (Nara Inst. of Science and Technology), Hand2Any: Hand-to-Any Motion Mapping with Few-Shot User Adaptation for Avatar Manipulation

KEYNOTE 3

17:05 / 17:35, Kayvon Fatahalian (Stanford), Learning at 100,000 FPS and from Expert Play: A Quest for Highly-Capable Game Playing Agents

PANEL

17:35 / 17:55, Panel / Discussion (Sam Devlin (Microsoft), Joohwan Kim (NVIDIA), Simon Donné (Unity Technologies))

17:55 / 18:00, Iuri Frosio (NVIDIA), Best paper award and conclusion