CfP - CASA2004 / Computer Animation & Social Agents

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C A L L F O R P A P E R S

Geneva-Switzerland: July 7-9, 2004 (http://casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/)

April 9, 2004: Papers Submission Deadline

May 7, 2004: Papers Notification

May 17, 2004: Camera Ready Papers to the Publisher

July 7-9, 2004: Start of CASA2004

The COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOCIETY (CGS) is pleased to announce the 17th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2004), held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, July 7-9, organized by MIRALab with the support of IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds).

Topics of interest of CASA2004 are:

Animation Techniques

* Motion Control
* Motion capture and retargeting
* Path planning
* Physics-based animation
* Vision techniques in animation
* Behavioral animation
* Artificial life
* Image rendering in animation
* Deformable Models
* Facial Animation



Social agents

* Social agents and avatars
* Emotions and personality
* Simulation involving Virtual Humans
* Autonomous characters and actors
* A.I. - based animation
* Social and Conversational agents
* Interagent communication
* Modeling of groups and crowds
* Social behavior
* Autonomous Virtual Humans in games



Virtual Environments

* Medical 3D simulation
* Simulation involving Virtual Humans
* Virtual Cultural Heritage
* Autonomous characters and actors
* VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments)
* A.I. - based animation
* Virtual reality
* Interaction with Virtual Humans
* Augmented Reality
* Perceptual models
* Virtual Sensors

Conference Co-Chairs

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
University of Geneva,
Switzerland
thalmann@miralab.unige.ch


Sung Yong Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of Science

Technology, Republic of Korea
syshin@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr

Program Co-Chairs
Animation techniques

John A.Vince
Bournemouth University,
Dorset, UK
jvince@bournemouth.ac.uk
Social agents

Catherine Pélachaud
IUT de Montreuil-
Université de Paris 8, France
c.pelachaud@iut.univ-paris8.fr


Virtual environments

Daniel Thalmann
EPFL, Switzerland
daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch

Paper Submission Procedure

Submissions are made electronically, in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted) at casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/submit.html. All accepted papers will appear in a special issue of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (formally JVCA) published by John Wiley.

Paper Format

Original unpublished papers of up to 10 pages (single-spaced, 12 point, including figures, tables and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author's information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address). Submission will be online and instructions on the web will be available. Animation sequences should be uploaded as an archive .zip file with your manuscript.

Send Queries to

Secretariat CASA2004
Email: casa2004@miralab.unige.ch
Fax: +41 22 7057780
Website: casa2004.miralab.unige.ch

Important Dates

April 9, 2004: Papers Submission Deadline

May 7, 2004: Papers Notification

May 17, 2004: Camera Ready Papers to the Publisher

July 7-9, 2004: Start of CASA2004