Call for Participation - CA2002 / Computer Animation 2002

Tue Apr 9 10:56:02 PDT 2002

-=- COMPUTER ANIMATION 2002 -=-
-= The 15th Computer Animation international conference -=-

// Geneva (CH), June 19-21, 2002
// cawww.miralab.unige.ch, CA2002 at miralab.unige.ch

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The Computer Graphics Society (CGS, cgswww.unige.ch) is pleased to announce that the 15th Computer Animation Conference will be held in Switzerland, hosted by MIRALab (www.miralab.unige.ch), University of Geneva, with the support of IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds). 

Computer Animation is an annual international conference organized by CGS and focused on the state-of-the-art of the animation by computer and its applications

The conference was created in 1988 with the support of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS), Switzerland, and it is the oldest conference in the world dedicated to computer animation. Since then, it has been the definitive reference for Computer Animation and has brought together many researchers and practitioners alike.

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Registration is opened at http://cawww.miralab.unige.ch/Dwr/registration.htm.

For more information please check the conference web pages or send email to CA2002 at miralab.unige.ch.

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY 19, JUNE 2002

9:00 REGISTRATION

10:00-10:30 WELCOME ADRESSES

10:30-11:10 FACIAL ANIMATION I

'Issues with lip-synch animation: can you read my lips?' (Invited talk)
Rick Parent (The Ohio State University); Scott King; Osamu Fujimura

11:40-12:20 FACIAL ANIMATION I (CONT)

'Making discourse visible: Coding and animating conversational facial displays'
Douglas DeCarlo (Rutgers University, USA); Corey Revilla; Matthew Stone; Jennifer Venditti

'Co-articulation Region Analysis for Control of 2D Faces'
Douglas Fidaleo (University of Southern California, USA); Ulrich Neumann

14:00-16:00 VIRTUAL HERITAGE AND NATURAL PHENOMENA

'Haptics Technologies and Cultural Heritage Applications'(Invited Talk)
M. Bergamasco (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy); A. Frisoli

'Virtual Climbing Plants Competing for Space'
Bedrich Benes (ITESM Campus Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)

'Randomly Accessible Procedural Animation of Physically Approximate Turbulent Motion'
John Hart (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Hui Fang

'Interactively Evolving Virtual Environment Maps with Continuous Layered Pattern Functions'
Matthew Lewis (The Ohio State University, USA); Richard Parent

16:30-17:30 VIRTUAL REALITY

'Point Representation of Geometry for Irregular Objects in Image-Based VR'(Invited Talk)
Enhua Wu(University of Macau); Yangci Zhang; Xuehui Liu

'Polyhedral Object Detection and Pose Estimation for Augmented Reality Applications'
Ali Shahrokni (EPFL, CH); Luca Vacchetti; Pascal Fua

17:30 WELCOME DRINK AND VISIT OF MIRALAB

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THURSDAY 20, JUNE 2002

9:00-10:20 IMAGE-BASED MODELLING AND ANIMATION

'From Visual Input to Modeling Humans'(Invited Talk)
D. Metaxas(Rutgers University.); H. Sun; K. Park; S. Goldenstein; C. Vogler; S. Lu; D. Samaras

'Evaluating Video-Based Motion Capture'
Michael Gleicher (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA); Nicola Ferrier

'GENESIS : Generation of E-Population Based on Statistical Information'
Hyewon Seo (University of Geneva, CH); Lydia Yahia-Cherif; Taro Goto; Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

10:50-12:10 DATABASE SYSTEMS FOR ANIMATION

'Homotopic Database Animation'(Invited Talk)
Tosiyasu L. Kunii(Hosei University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan)

'AMOBA: A Database System for Annotating Captured Human Movements'
Stefan Michael Grünvogel (Institute Laboratory for Mixed Realities at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany) ; Jens Piesk; Stefan Schwichtenberg; Gregor Büchel

'Extensive and Efficient Search of Human Movements with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning'
Tomohiko Mukai (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan) ; Shigeru Kuriyama; Toyohisa Kaneko

13:30-14:50 STANDARDS FOR HUMAN ANIMATION

'Formational Parameters and Adaptive Prototype Instantiation for MPEG-4'
Bjoern Hartmann (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Catherine Pelachaud; Maurizio Mancini

'A Web3D Toolbox for Creating H-Anim Compatible Actors'
Hanspeter Bieri (University of Bern, CH); Mike Cobo

'Specifying MPEG-4 body behaviors'
Anthony Guye-Vuillème (EPFL, CH); Daniel Thalmann

15:20-17:40 AUTONOMOUS CHARACTERS AND BEHAVIOURAL ANIMATION

'Representing and Parameterizing Agent Behaviors' (Invited talk)
Norman Badler (University of Pennsylvania)

'Behavioural animation of virtual humans : what kind of rules?' (Invited Talk)
Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, CH)

'A Hybrid Dynamical Systems Approach to Intelligent Low-Level Navigation'
Eric Aaron (University of Pennsylvania, USA); Harold Sun; Dimitris Metaxas

'Building Artificial Memory to Autonomous Agents using Dynamic and Hierarchical Finite State Machine'
Tatiana Figueiredo Evers (University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brasil); Soraia Raupp Musse

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FRIDAY 21, JUNE 2002

9:00-10:20 DIGITAL MEDIA COMMUNICATION

'Knowledge discovery, body language and memory as asymmetric information - The architecture of the Internet media lab netzspannung.org' (Invited Talk)
Monika Fleischmann(Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication); Wolfgang Strauss

'Employing Approximate 3D Models to Enrich Traditional Computer Assisted Animation'
Fabian Di Fiore (Expertise Centre for Digital Media - Limburg University Centre, Belgium); Frank Van Reeth

10:50-12:10 SIMULATION OF CLOTHES

'The state of the art in clothing : problems and solutions' (Invited Talk)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, CH);Pascal Volino; Frederic Cordier

'Bilayered Approximate Integration for Rapid and Plausible Animation of Virtual Cloth with Realistic Wrinkles'
Young-Min Kang (Pusan National University, Korea); Hwan-Gue Cho

13:30-14:30 MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

'Accurate Simulation of hip joint range of motion'
MyungJin Kang (University of Geneva); Hassan Sadri; Laurent Moccozet; Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann; Pierre Hoffmeyer

'Anatomy-based Joint Model for Virtual Humans Skeletons'
Anderson Maciel (UFRGS/EPFL, CH); Luciana Porcher Nedel; Carla M. Dal Sasso Freitas

'Removing Tetrahedra from a Manifold Mesh'
Clément Forest (INRIA, France); Hervé Delingette; Nicholas Ayache

15:00-16:40 FACIAL ANIMATION II

'Lip Synchronization for Song'
Scott King (University of Otago, NZ); Richard Parent

'A Conversational Virtual Character for the Web'
Karlo Smid (Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia); Igor Pandzic

'Prototyping and transforming visemes for animated speech'
Bernard Tiddeman (University of St Andrews, UK); David Perrett,

'Model-based Animation of Coverbal Gesture'
Stefan Kopp (University of Bielefeld, Germany) ; Ipke Wachsmuth

GALA NIGHT, HOTEL INTERCONTINENTAL

19h00 - Welcome Cocktail
20h00 - Dinner
22h00 - Virtual Pompei Show
23h00 - Dance party

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= Send queries to
CA2002 local committee
fax: +41 22 705 77 80
email: CA2002 at miralab.unige.ch

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