
Special Session at the 2025 International Conference on Digital Signal Processing: Digital Twins and XR – Signal Processing Challenges and Emerging Technologies
Organisers: Imad H. Elhajj (Vision and Robotics Lab, American University of Beirut, Lebanon), Daniel Asmar (Vision and Robotics Lab, American University of Beirut), Georg Thallinger (Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria), Lucia Vadicamo (Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), National Research Council (CNR), Pisa, Italy), Konstantinos Moustakas (University of Patras, Patras, Greece)
Description:
The emergence of Digital Twins and Extended Reality (XR) technologies has opened up exciting possibilities across a wide range of applications, including smart cities, healthcare, education, industrial IoT, and entertainment. These advancements are made possible by breakthroughs in enabling technologies such as digital signal processing (DSP), computer vision, artificial intelligence, and immersive visualization. However, significant challenges remain in designing, implementing, and optimising these systems, particularly in the context of signal processing.
This special session will explore the intersection of DSP with Digital Twins and XR, emphasizing the role of DSP techniques in the creation, updating, storage, and real-time streaming of Digital Twins, as well as in ensuring seamless, low-latency performance in XR environments. The session will also address human factors in system design, ethical considerations, and privacy concerns, which are critical for the sustainable development of these transformative technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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- Advances in enabling technologies for Digital Twins and XR
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- Signal processing methods for creating, updating, storing, and streaming Digital Twins
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- Challenges in processing high-dimensional and multimodal data in XR environments
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- Low-latency rendering and interaction in XR applications
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- Compression, denoising, and optimisation for large-scale 3D asset collections (e.g. objects, scenes, avatars, motion capture data)
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- Human factors and usability considerations in the design of Digital Twins and XR systems
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- Ethical and privacy challenges in deploying Digital Twins and XR at scale
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- Applications and use cases, including healthcare, smart cities, industrial IoT, and education
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- Signal processing techniques for XR rendering of and interaction with Digital Twins
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- Real-time signal processing for immersive experiences in XR environments
This session will provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to share cutting-edge developments and applications, address key challenges, and envision the future of DSP in Digital Twins and XR technologies.
We would welcome paper submissions for presentation on these or related topics, with a conference registration deadline of April 25th 2025 for at least one presenter per paper ahead of the conference itself from the 25th to the 27th June 2025 in Messina, Greece. Please visit the DSP 2025 website for submission instructions.