[Call for Papers] - CASA2005 (Computer Animation & Social Agents)

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Call for Papers
International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents 2005
CASA2005
 
October 17 - 19, 2005
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~casa2005/

>Organized by
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
City University of Hong Kong
The Computer Graphics Society (CGS)

>Important Dates
Full paper submission:  April 25, 2005
Notification of acceptance:  July 1, 2005
Camera-ready copy due:  August 1, 2005

CASA 2005 will be held in Hong Kong, one of the exciting and
beautiful cities in Asia. The technical program of the conference
consists of high quality technical papers that are reviewed and
selected by an international program committee.

Papers are solicited on all technical aspects of computer
animation, including but are not limited to the following topics:
 
- Motion control
- Social and Conversational agents
- Motion capture and retargeting
- Perceptual models
- Path planning
- Interagent communication
- Physics-based animation
- Virtual Sensors
- Vision techniques in animation
- Modelling of groups and crowds
- Behavioral animation
- Social behavior
- Artificial life
- Autonomous virtual humans in games
- Virtual humans and avatars
- Emotions and personality
- Image rendering in animation
- Medical 3D simulation
- Simulation involving virtual humans
- Virtual cultural heritage
- Autonomous characters and actors
- CVE (Collaborative Virtual Environments)
- Interaction with virtual humans
- Virtual reality and augmented reality
- Deformable models
- Facial animation   
 
>Submission Guidelines
 
Each paper for submission should be formatted according
to the guidelines given in the conference web site. 
It must not be longer than 12 pages in length, including
references and figures.  In order to provide a fair review
of all submitted papers, the review process will be
double-blind - the paper itself should not include the
authors' identity.  Instead, the authors' information
will be submitted through the online submission system. 
 
Please visit the the conference web site for more information:
 http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~casa2005/
 
All accepted full papers will be printed in an extended
special issue of the journal of Computer Animation and Virtual
Worlds (published by John Wiley) to be distributed at the
conference.
 
>Conference Co-Chairs
Rynson W.H. Lau, Hong Kong
Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland
 
>Program Co-Chairs
George Baciu, Hong Kong
Ming C. Lin, USA
 
>Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
Taku Komura, Hong Kong
Frederick Li, Hong Kong
 
>Publication and Media Chair
Ki-Wan Kwok, Hong Kong
 
>Treasurer and Local Tour
Thomas Choi, Hong Kong
 
>International Program Committee

Elisabeth Andre, Germany
George Baciu, Hong Kong
Norman Badler, USA
Grigore Burdea, USA
Justine Cassell, USA
Angélica de Antonio, Spain
Stephane Donikian, France
David Ebert, USA
Francois Faure, France
Ron Fedkiw, USA
Baining Guo, China
Jessica Hodgins, USA
Horace H.S. Ip, Hong Kong
Prem Kalra, INDIA
Arie E. Kaufman, USA
John Keyser, USA
Young Kim, Korea
Hyeong-Seok Ko, South Korea
Taku Komura, Hong Kong
Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Japan
Rynson Lau, Hong Kong
Wonsook Lee, Canada
James Lester, USA
Frederick Li, Hong Kong
Ming C. Lin, USA
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Switzerland
Dinesh Manocha, USA
Laurent Moccozet, Switzerland
Ahmad Nasri, Lebanon
Luciana Porcher Nedel, Brazil
Carol O'Sullivan, Ireland
Igor Pandzic, Croatia
Rick Parent, USA
Helmut Pottmann, Austria
Catherine Pélachaud, France
Thomas Rist, Germany
Skip Rizzo, USA
Deborah Silver, USA
Jos Stam, Alias Systems Corp.
Hanqiu Sun, Hong Kong
Daniel Thalmann, Switzerland
Michiel van de Panne, Canada
Frédéric Vexo, Switzerland
John A. Vince, UK
Pascal Volino, Switzerland
Michael Zyda, USA

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