ImmerCom 2026

The 4th ACM Workshop on Mobile Immersive Computing, Networking, and Systems

To be held in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2026

October 30, 2026, Austin, Texas, USA

Tentative Technical Program

Friday, October 30, 2026 • Austin, Texas • All times CDT

Friday, October 30, 2026

09:00–09:15	Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15–10:05	Session 1: 3D Media and Visual Sensing
	Modular Neural Pipelines for Text-to-3DGS Avatar Generation: System Implementation and Preliminary Optimization Napat Leesaksakul; Nahathai Wonganawat; Sirawee Wutinarongtrakul; Buachompoo Kaewchuay; Cheng-Hsin Hsu
	Spectral Splats: Active Hyperspectral Projection towards Material-Aware Volumetric Sensing Yunan Wang; Valeria Itrat Herrera; Lauren Gold; Kevin Kelly; Robert LiKamWa
	Delta Splatting: Dynamic 3D Triangle Splatting for Volumetric Video Streaming Automne Petitjean; Tian Guo
	DynCodec: Codec-Compatible Compression of Dynamic Neural Scene Representations Jin Zhou; Na Li; Mufeng Zhu; Songqing Chen; Yao Liu
	Depth4vtol: Precise Depth Estimation for Vertical Take-off and Landing UAVs over Residential Houses Shengqing Xia; Chunyi Peng
10:05–10:20	Morning Break
10:20–11:20	Keynote 1: Beyond Immersion: Toward Personal Intelligence Lili Qiu (The University of Texas at Austin)
11:25–12:15	Session 2: Immersive AI and Human Interaction
	Huni: A Networked Testbed for Real-time Human and Generative AI Interaction Ruizhi Cheng; Mohamed Mohsin Shaik; Guowu Xie; Bo Han
	MR-VLMCoach: Immersive Sports Coaching with Vision-Language-Driven Biomechanical Feedback Sohom Sen; Mingrui Yin; Wantong Lyu; Devesh Tiwari; Yongjie Guan; Xueyu Hou; Tao Han; Nirwan Ansari
	MetaGPT: An Immersive Mixed Reality AI Assistant via Offline Edge-Deployed Multi-Agent Vision–Language Inference Mingrui Yin; Wantong Lyu; Sohom Sen; Yongjie Guan; Xueyu Hou; Tao Han; Nirwan Ansari
	GUARD-EYE: Guiding User Awareness with Real-time Detection for EYe health and Engagement Thomas Montemayor; Zifan Zhou; Haowei Li; Jianan Jiang; Xiaozhen Wang; Bin Li
	Towards Persistent Dynamic Scene Understanding for Immersive Computing Song Tu Linh Do; Mehruba Tanzid Ontika; Dhara Desai; Afroze Rahman; Jiayi Meng
12:15–13:15	Lunch Break
13:15–14:15	Keynote 2: Title to Be Announced Lindsay Portnoy (National Science Foundation) • Virtual
14:15–14:55	Session 3: Wearable AI and Video Understanding
	ThermWear: Thermal-Aware Backend Scheduling for On-Device Sustained DNN Inference Zhihao Ren; Xiaoyu Fang; Tao Han; Nirwan Ansari
	Transferable Latency Prediction for LLM Screening in Mobile Immersive Deployment Xiaolong Tu; Vinod K. Mishra; Venkat R. Dasari; Anu G. Bourgeois; Haoxin Wang
	Resource-Constrained Lifelogging: A Utility-Based Replacement Policy for Video Understanding Tun-Yuan Chang; Cheng-Hsin Hsu
	Toward Codec-Native Interfaces for Wearable Video-Language Systems Xiaoyu Fang; Zhihao Ren; Haocheng Wang; Nirwan Ansari; Tao Han
14:55–15:10	Afternoon Break
15:10–16:00	Session 4: XR Networking, Rendering, and Power
	5G × Headsets: An Application-Level Measurement Study of 5G Latency for Networked Immersive XR Tianyuan Du; Hanting Ye; Yiming Li; Tianyi Hu; Tingjun Chen; Maria Gorlatova
	GlassScope: An Open-Source Measurement Layer for AI-Glass Live Streaming Raoa Faria Karim; John Cobio; Songling Bai; Wei Li; Yingshu Li; Ming Li
	LocRender: Local-Depth-Aware Edge Rendering for Responsive Mixed Reality Yongjie Guan; Xueyu Hou
	An Empirical Study of Depth Inference Scheduling for Dynamic Anchoring in Mobile AR Zhanhong Huang; Yiqin Zhao; Tian Guo
	When to Sleep: Break-Even-Time-Aware Power Management for Commercial AR Headsets Xueyu Hou; Yongjie Guan
16:00–16:15	Closing Remarks