Date & Time
Date: Sept 26th Friday
Time: 11:00-12:00PM
Venue: IB 3106& Zoom
Zoom ID: 789 843 9496
Speaker
Dr. Jinyuan Jia
Professor
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Abstract
The booming metaverse, as a new generation of Internet technology, requires a 3D engine that enables users to create virtual worlds anytime and anywhere. The rise of Web3D technology, which operates without plugins and offers cross-platform compatibility, has gained widespread adoption due to its ease of use and decentralized nature. However, the vastness of the metaverse and its potentially unlimited user base pose challenges in server processing, network transmission, and browser rendering.
To address these four key bottlenecks, we propose a lightweight, efficient Web3D solution featuring high quality, accuracy, low cost, low energy consumption, and low latency. This includes: 1. Lightweight, fine-grained preprocessing of virtual world scenes; 2. Network transmission scheduling for multi-user online sharing; 3. Lightweight online Web3D rendering with global illumination. Our solution has been validated in over 20 large-scale Web3D projects across various sectors and can be integrated into metaverse PaaS.
BIO
Dr. Jinyuan Jia, Principal Engineer of Low Altitude System and Economy Institute (LASERi), Practice Professor at Thrust of Urban Governance and Design (UGOD), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He is a pioneer and leader in the field of Web3D. In 2023, he was appointed as the Vice Chairman of Metaverse Expert Committee of the Yangtze River Delta. In 2022, he was invited into a G20 Professorship by Indonesian Academy of Sciences and presented a keynote on Metaverse and SoG Forum at G20 Summit. In 2021, he was elected as Executive Councilor of China Graphics Society and Founding Director of Chinese Committee of Internet Graphics. He has twice served as PC Chair of ChinaVR in 2017 and 2018 and twice as IPC Chair of ACM Web3D (in 2015 and 2020) respectively. He has been leading his team to focus on studying key Web3D technologies, established a lightweight Web3D Metaverse framework. published 50 high-quality Web3D papers and awarded 26 Patents. His team has won 4 Best Paper Awards of ChinaVR consecutively from 2017 to 2020, Best Paper Award of Edutainment in 2017 and Best Award of ACM Web3D in 2020. He graduated from the Daxinganling Normal School in 1984, obtained Master Degree from Jilin University in 1991, and PhD from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2004.
