Time zone GMT (UTC+0) = Accra 09:30 hrs = Geneva 10:30 hrs
Day 1 - Wednesday, 7 December
| 08:30-09:30 | Welcome and registration (click here to join remotely) | | 09:30-10:00 | Opening plenary
Master of Ceremony: Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
- Collins Yeboah-Afari, Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE)
- Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
- Honourable Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister for Communications & Digitalisation
| 10:00-10:15
| U4SSC Ceremony
| | 10:15-10:45 | Coffee break (sponsored by Host) | | 10:45-12:15 | Session 1 – Some perspectives on future networks
Session chair: Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country, Spain; K-2022 Steering Committee member S1.1 Integrated network control architecture for terrestrial and non-terrestrial network convergence in beyond
5G systems [presentation]
Ved P. Kafle, Mariko Sekiguchi, Hitoshi Asaeda and Hiroaki Harai (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
S1.2 Towards computing and network convergence: QoE-oriented service anycast based on SRv6 [presentation]
Zicheng Wang, Yetong Wang, Xian Gao, Shuai Wu and Wei Lin (Inspur Communications Technology Co., Ltd., China)
S1.3 Towards a more flexible networking landscape [presentation]
David Lou (Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Germany); Marinos Charalambides (Independent
Researcher, United Kingdom)
| 12:15-13:15
| Keynote session
Exploring the realverse: Building, deploying, and managing QoE in XR communications [presentation]
Pablo Pérez, Lead Scientist, eXtended Reality Lab, Nokia, Spain
Session chair: Martin Adolph, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
| | 13:15-14:15 | Lunch break (sponsored by Host) | 14:15-15:15
| Keynote session
Metaverse interoperability with composability in hyper-connected and hyper-personalized
virtual environments [presentation]
Junseong Bang, ETRI, Republic of Korea
Session chair: Ezer Osei Yeboah-Boateng, Deputy Director-General, National Communications Authority (NCA),
Accra, Ghana
| 15:15-16:45
| Session 2 – Augmented reality systems: design and implementation
Session chair: Kester Quist-Aphetsi, Ghana Communication Technology University
S2.1 A framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of a multi-variant Augmented Reality
application* [presentation]
Sophie Westfahl (University of Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany); Dany Meyer-Renner (University of
Applied Sciences Neu-Ulm, Germany); Antoine Bagula (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
S2.2 Enhancing user experience in pedestrian navigation based on Augmented Reality and landmark
recognition* [presentation]
Dhananjay Kumar, Shreayaas Iyer, Easwar Raja and Ragul Kumar (Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, India); Ved P. Kafle (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
S2.3 The knowledge graph as the interoperability foundation for an Augmented Reality application: The case
at the Dutch Land Registry* [presentation]
Alexandra Rowland and Erwin J.A. Folmer (University of Twente & Kadaster, The Netherlands); Tony Baving (Kadaster, The Netherlands)
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| Social event: cocktail & live band
| Time zone GMT (UTC+0) = Accra 09:30 hrs = Geneva 10:30 hrs Day 2 - Thursday, 8 December |
| 09:00-09:30 | Registration (click to join remotely) | | 09:30-10:30 | Keynote session
Metaverse: Challenges for Extended Reality and Holographic-Type Communication in the Next Decade
[presentation]
Ian F. Akyildiz, Truva, USA, and Editor-in-Chief of ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET)
Session chair: Isaac Boateng, National Communications Authority (NCA), Accra, Ghana
| | 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break (sponsored by Host) | | 11:00-12:30 | Session 3 – Services in future networks
Session chair: Dhananjay Kumar, Anna University, MIT Campus, India
- S3.1 Research on asset administration shell standard system architecture [presentation] - NOT PRESENTED
Quanbo Lu (China University of Geosciences, Beijing, China); Xinqi Shen (China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China); Mei Li (China University of Geoscience Beijing, China)
S3.2 Research and standardization requirements for 5G network peak control technology in video
transmission [presentation]
Zhiji Deng (Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Harmonized Application of Vision & Transmission, China and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd, China); Zhewei Fu, Ming Liu, Xiangyu Qu (Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd, China); Dong Ding (China Mobile Communications Corporation, China); Qi Ye, Weisheng Kong, Fei Wang, Jinyu Zhang and Hui Wang (Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co. Ltd, China); Jian Lou (China Mobile Communications Corporation, China)
S3.3 A comparative analysis of Augmented Reality frameworks aimed at diverse computing
applications* [presentation]
Mfundo A. Maneli and Omowunmi E. Isafiade (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
| 12:30-13:00
| Invited paper
A survey of Extended Reality (XR) standards [presentation] Gillian Makamara and Martin Adolph, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
Session chair: Kenneth Ashigbey, CEO, Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications
| | 13:00-14:00 | Lunch break (sponsored by Host) | 14:00-14:30
| Video Demonstration Track
Making extended reality safe and secure for teenagers with ParGuard [video]
Agasthya Gangavarapu, Safety4XR
Moderator: Kenneth Ashigbey, CEO, Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications
| | 14:30-15:30 | Students' Exhibit
- Cat Swarm Optimization with Lévy Flight (CSOLF)
for Link Load Balancing in Software Defined Networks (SDN)
Kwaku Akyeampong Amanin Kwarteng, Kwame Oteng Gyasi, Justice Owusu Agyemang, Kwame Opuni-Boachie Agyekum, Telecommunication Engineering Dept., KN University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana
- Joint Vision-Position Aided Millimeter Wave Beam
Prediction Using Vision Transformer (ViT)
Osman Mamudu, Nathan Fofeyin Njini, Patrick Tambol Nkpeek, Telecommunication Engineering Dept., KN University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana
- Towards
digital transformation in the African Region
Patrick Tambol Nkpeek, KN University of Science and Technology
- The role of big data leading to a digital transformation
Ebenezer Akutteh, Ghana Communication Technology University
- Giving users control in a digital era
Abraham Delalom Tomety, Ghana Communication Technology University
- An Ant Colony inspired approach to Decentralized Data Processing for Load Balancing in IoT
Michael Wilson, Henry Nunoo-Mensah, Kwame Osei Boateng, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Moderator: Kester Quist-Aphetsi, Ghana Communication Technology University
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| Social event: Visit to NCA
| Time zone GMT (UTC+0) = Accra 09:30 hrs = Geneva 10:30 hrs
Day 3 - Friday, 9 December |
| 09:00-09:30 | Registration (click here to join remotely) | | 09:30-10:30 | Keynote session
minoHealth.AI: A clinical evaluation of deep learning systems for the diagnosis of pleural effusion and cardiomegaly in Ghana, Vietnam and the United States of America [presentation] Darlington Akogo, Founder, CEO, minoHealth AI Labs, karaAgro AI, Runmila AI Institute, Ghana
Session chair: William Akotam Agangiba, Computer Science Department, UMAT
| | 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break (sponsored by Host) | 11:00-12:00
| Invited special session
The Metaverse and the future of education - Frameworks, features, potential applications, challenges and opportunities [presentation]
William Brown-Acquaye, Ghana Communication Technology University
Moderator: Forgor Lempogo, Ghana Communication Technology University
| | 12:00-12:30 | Wrap-up session
Summary of the fourteenth ITU Kaleidoscope
academic conference (panel with Paper Sessions Chairs) [presentation]
Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair
| | 12:30-13:30 | Lunch break (sponsored by Host) | | 13:30-14:30 | Closing and Awards Ceremony
Best paper awards and young author recognition ceremony [presentation] - Collins Yeboah-Afari, General Chairman of Kaleidoscope 2022; Director-General, Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), Accra, Ghana
- Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
- Alessia Magliarditi, Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
- Winners
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* denotes papers nominated for best paper award. |
