FULL PROGRAM
Dubai Time (GMT+4)
Zoom link for the keynotes: https://zu-ac-ae.zoom.us/j/97702866406
*The total duration of an in-person presentation is 15 minutes, while the total duration of an online presentation is 10 minutes.
*The online presentations will be held live (not recorded) via Zoom.
Tuesday, November 26
Tuesday, November 26 9:00 - 10:15 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 2: Metaverse Application I
- Securing the Future: The Intersection of ML-Based Oracles and Blockchain Technology
Hajar Moudoud, Zakaria el Houda and Bouziane Brik
- AI-Enhanced Mobile Diminished Reality Framework for Preserving 3D Visual Privacy
Salam Tabet, Ayman Kayssi and Imad H. Elhajj
- Accelerating 3D Scene Development for the Metaverse: Lessons from Photogrammetry and Manual Modeling
Viviana Pentangelo, Dario Di Dario, Vincenzo De Martino, Marco Dello Buono and Stefano Lambiase
- Federated Learning for Personalized User Experiences in the Metaverse
Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum
Tuesday, November 26 14:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 8: Metaverse Application II
- Framework for Integration of Generative AI into Metaverse Asset Creation
Rio Mukhtarom Paweroi and Mario Köppen
- Revolutionizing Cybersecurity Training: An Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Traditional Methods and Interest in Virtual Reality Modules
Shaila Rana and Rhonda Chicone
- Digital Twins in the Metaverse for the Collaborative Discovery of Contextual Factors
Olga Menukhin, Nikolay Mehandjiev and Qudamah Quboa
- Beyond Screens: Investigating Identity Proofing for the Metaverse Through Cross-Device Flows
Marco Pernpruner, Cecilia Pasquini, Giada Sciarretta and Silvio Ranise
Wednesday, November 27
Wedesday, November 27 9:00 - 10:15 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 14: Metaverse Application III
- Virtual Staging Technologies for the Metaverse
Muhammad Tukur, Yehia Boraey, Sara Jashari, Alberto Jaspe, Uzair Shah, Mahmood Alzubaidi, Giovanni Pintore, Enrico Gobbetti, Jens Schneider, Marco Agus and Noora Fetais
- Protecting Privacy in the UAE Metaverse: Policies and Regulations
Shuq Hussein
- Legal challenges of Intellectual Property in the Metaverse under UAE intellectual property law: Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents
Shuq Hussein
- Pixels to Reality: A Maturity Spectrum of Immersion
Adnan Javed, Nauman Javed and Amjad Umar
- VR as a tool in the educational process: requirements and implementation process
Harald Kitzmann, Ulrich Norbisrath, Alessia Kaivo, Marko Sandre and Pille Toomsalu
Wednesday, November 27 15:30 - 17:00 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 20: Metaverse Application IV
- A Comprehensive Study of the Metaverse: Characteristics, Benefits, Drawbacks, Privacy Concerns, Challenges, Security and Vulnerabilities, Applications, Future Directions, and Recommendations
Alanoud Al Falahi, Hind Alnuaimi, Mouza Alqaydi, Nada Al Shateri, Shamma Al Ameri, Mohammad Qbea'H and Saed Alrabaee
- Ethical Pathways in VR and the Metaverse: Frameworks for Responsible Innovation
Mousa Al-Kfairy, Saed Alrabaee and Omar Alfandi
- eFactory for Metaverse-based Smart Communities Cities and Enterprises
Amjad Umar, Kamran Khalid, Nauman Javed and Adnan Javed
- Eden: An Edge Computing Empowered Proof-of-Personhood Protocol for Anti-Sybil in Blockchain-based Metaverse
Yinfeng Cao, Jiannong Cao, Hongbo Liu, Zeyang Cui and Long Wen
- A Multi-Layered Strategy for Addressing Privacy and Data Security issues in Metaverse
Rahaf Alnuaimi and Moatsum Alawida
- Enhancing Privacy and Security in Digital Twin and Metaverse Technologies: Mathematical Models, Blockchain, and Future Directions
Mohammad Alja'Afreh, Omar Bani Ahmad and Ali Karime
Thursday, November 28
Thursday, November 28 14:00 - 15:30 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 32: iMETA Online I
- Venturing into the Metaverse: Innovative AI-Driven Strategies for Advancing Dental Education
Ayham Salloum, Shirin Alimour, Dina Tahat, Khalaf Tahat, Raghad Alfaisal and Said Salloum
- An AUTOSAR-based Framework for Multi-core Communication System
Jiayong Wei, Jiajun Gao, Wenfeng Ma, Wenbo Zhao and Fan Lu
- Deep Social Link Prediction in the Metaverse
Sifeng Wang and Wanli Huang
- Challenges and Future Developments in the Metaverse
Sifeng Wang and Wanli Huang
- MFSC: A Federated Learning and Semantic Communication Framework for Efficient Digital Twin Creation in Metaverse
Esmail Almosharea, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad and Mounir Hamdi
- A Conceptual Framework for Educational Metaverse
George Pachoulas, Athanasios Christopoulos and Chrysostomos Stylios
- A Novel Approach for Remote Rendering and Streaming in XR
Alexander Zoubarev, Louay Bassbouss, Duc Long Tran, Stephan Steglich and Stefan Arbanowski
- Behind the Scenes of Successful Metaverse User Traversal
Alireza Famili, Tolga Atalay and Angelos Stavrou
Friday, November 29
Friday, November 29 9:00 - 10:30 (Asia/Dubai)
TS 40: iMETA Online II
- User Interaction for WebGL-Based Desktop Metaverse
Xin-Han Wu, Hong-Rui Qian, Po-Hsiang Hsu, I-Feng Huang, Yi-Ping Hung and Yennun Huang
- A Pilot Study on the Use of a Novel Mixed Reality Navigation System to Assist Femoral Tunnel Positioning in Single-Bundle Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
Zhefan Zhang, Yuxuan Li, Wei Huang and Xing Fang
- Meta-Swin: Lightweight Image Super-Resolution Swin Transformer for Metaverse Applications
Omer Tariq, Muhammad Bilal Akram Dastagir, Dongsoo Han and Muhammad Bilal
- MetaGuard: A Zero-Trust-Based Access Control for Metaverse
Asma Alshamsi, Amal Adel, Mezoun Al Ghfeli, Ouns Bouachir
- Node Hibernation Optimization Strategy for Metaverse Stream Computing
Yonglin Pu
- Optimization Method Based on Data Migration on Metaverse
Yonglin Pu
- Data Backup Method Based on Metaverse Service Management
Yonglin Pu