Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:33:16 +0100 (MET) From: Graphics Info Subject: COMPUTER ANIMATION'2000 COMPUTER ANIMATION '2000 CONFERENCE Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, USA Dates: May 3-5, 2000 The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and IEEE Computer Siciety are pleased to announce the organization of COMPUTER ANIMATION '2000 in Philadelphia. This 13th conference on Computer Animation is organized by the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS) at the University of Pennsylvania - USA. Call for Papers Contributions are solicited describing original research results and application papers in the following areas of computer animation: Motion control Animation for scientific visualization Keyframe techniques Animation in engineering Motion Capture Motion blur and temporal antialiasing Path planning A.I.-based animation Physics-Based Animation Robotics and animation Virtual humans and avatars Virtual reality Image rendering in animation Autonomous characters and actors Animation languages and systems Sound and speech synchronization Behavioral animation Vision techniques in animation Artificial Life Special hardware for animation VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) Medical Applications Real-time Simulation, Animation and Visualization INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS: Four copies of full papers in English should be sent to the Program Co-Chair Dimitris Metaxas by January 31, 2000. Authors will be notified by March 10, 2000. Camera-ready papers are due by April 1, 2000. All accepted papers will appear in a book published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Original unpublished papers of up to 25 pages (single-spaced, 12 points, including figures, tables and references) are invited.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). If your paper contains an animation then it is required that you send 4 videotapes as well. All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program Committee members and by external reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES PAPERS DUE : January 31, 2000. NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE WITH REVIEWS: March 10, 2000. CAMERA READY PAPERS DUE: April 1, 2000. CONFERENCE: May 3-5, 2000. SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUERIES TO: Dimitris Metaxas Dept. of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania 200 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 USA. Tel: 215 898 0945 Fax: 215 573 7453 Email: dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dnm *********************************************************************** Conference Chairs Norman I. Badler Dept. of Computer and Information Science Univ. of Pennsylvania 200 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 badler@central.cis.upenn.edu Daniel Thalmann Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland thalmann@eldi.epfl.ch Program Chairs Dimitris Metaxas (USA) Dept. of Computer and Information Science Univ. of Pennsylvania 200 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu Nadia Magnenat Thalmann University of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland thalmann@cui.unige.ch Program Committee N. Ayache, INRIA, France N. Badler, UPENN, USA A. Blake, Microsoft UK M. Brand, Mitsubishi, USA A. Bruderlin, SONY, USA I. Carlbom, Lucent, USA P. Cohen, OGI, USA T-S. Chua, N. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore M. Cohen, Microsoft, USA D. DeCarlo, Rutgers, USA J. Duncan, Yale Univ., USA D. Ebert, UMBC, USA I. Essa, GATECH, USA E. Fiume, Univ. of Toronto, Canada N. Foster, PDI, USA P. Fua, EPFL, Switzerland H. Fuchs, UNC, USA M. Gleicher, U. Wisconsin - Madison, USA C. Bregler, Stanford, USA J. Gomes, IMPA, Brazil L. Guibas, Stanford, USA D. Haumann, PIXAR, USA J. Hodgins, GATECH, USA R. Herpers, U. of Applied Sciences Rhein-Sieg, Germany I. Kakadiaris, Univ. of Houston, USA P. Kalra, IIT-Delhi, INDIA M. Kass, PIXAR, USA A. Kaufman, SUNY Stony Brook, USA T. L. Kunii, Japan M. Lin, UNC, USA B. Loftin, Univ. of Houston, USA N. Magnenat-Thalmann, U. Geneva, Switzerland D. Manocha, UNC, USA D. Metaxas, UPENN, USA F. Parke, Texas A&M University, USA N. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA K. Perlin, NYU, USA T. Poggio, MIT, USA Z. Popovic, U. Washington, USA H. Qin, SUNY Stony Brook, USA L. Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, USA S. Seitz, CMU, USA S. Sclaroff, BU, USA S. Y. Shin, KAIST, Korea Y. Suenaga, Nagoya Univ., Japan B. Takacs, Virtual Celebrity, USA D. Terzopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada D. Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland B. Vemuri, Univ. of Forida, USA T. Vetter, Max Planck Institute, Germany L. Velho, IMPA, Brazil A. Witkin, PIXAR, USA F. Wolter, U. Hannover, Germany Y. Wu, Mitsubishi, USA Local Arrangements Chair Karen Carter Dept. of Computer and Information Science Univ. of Pennsylvania 200 South 33rd St. Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389 karen@central.cis.upenn.edu