From - Wed Nov 27 11:52:00 2002 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:26:30 +0100 From: CASA2003 Subject: FINAL CfP- CASA'2003 / Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003 C O M P U T E R A N I M A T I O N and SOCIAL AGENTS 2003 THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS (CASA 2003) CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS CASA 2003 at Rutgers University: May 7-9, 2003 http://www.cbim.rutgers.edu/conferences/casa2003 The COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOCIETY (CGS) is pleased to announce the COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 2003 Conference to be held at Rutgers University, New-Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. This 16th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents will be organized at Rutgers University with the support of IEEE, ACM Siggraph, DIMACS and IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics and Virtual Worlds). The topics of interest in CASA 2003 include but are not limited to: - 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 - VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) - A.I. - based animation - Virtual reality - Interaction with Virtual Humans - Augmented Reality - Deformable Models - Facial Animation Conference Co-Chairs - Norman Badler University of Pennsylvania, USA badler@central.cis.upenn.edu - Daniel Thalmann EPFL, Switzerland daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch Program Co-Chairs - Dimitris Metaxas Rutgers University, USA dnm@cs.rutgers.edu - Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann University of Geneva, Switzerland thalmann@miralab.unige.ch - Hyeong-Seok Ko Seoul National University, Korea ko@graphics.snu.ac.kr Paper Submission Procedures - Submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted). - All accepted papers will appear in a proceedings book published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Paper Format - Original unpublished papers of up to 12 pages (single-spaced, 12 points, including figures, tables and references) are invited.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). The submission will be online and there will be instructions on the web - Any animation sequences should be made available as a URL in your paper. Tutorials Submission Procedures Proposals for tutorial on topics such as Medical Applications, Special Effects, Vision for Graphics, Procedural and Physics-based Animation and Conversational Agents are invited. Proposals must contain a description with a detailed course outline, course objectives, target audience and prerequisites, course length, brief presenters' biographical sketches, tutorial material/handouts and audio-visual or technical requirements. Important Dates - November 30 Paper Submission Deadline - February 5 Papers Notification of Acceptance - February 28 Tutorial Submission Deadline - March 1 Camera Ready Papers Due - March 15 Tutorials Notification of Acceptance - May 7 Start of Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003 Important Links - Registration Sign up to attend CASA 2003 - Directions Instructions for getting to the Conference - Hotels List of local accommodations Send Queries to Secretariat CASA 2003 Email: casa2003@biomed.rutgers.edu Fax: +732 445 2914 Web: http://www.cbim.rutgers.edu/conferences/casa2003 International Program Committee (tentative) N. Adabala, University of Geneva, Switzerland E. Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany N. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA D. Ballin, BT, UK T. Bickmore, MIT, USA B. Blumberg, MIT, USA R. Boulic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland D. Brogan, University of Viriginia, USA T. Capin, NOKIA, USA J. Cassell, MIT, USA A. de Antonio, University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain D. DeCarlo, Rutgers University, USA H. Delingette, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), France J. Duncan, Yale University, USA D. Ebert, Purdue Univ., USA I. Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA P. Faloutsos, UCLA, USA R. Fedkiw, Stanford, USA N. Foster, Pacific Data Images (PDI), USA P. Fua, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland M. Gleicher, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA J. Gratch, USC, USA J. Hodgins, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Z. Huang, National University of Singapore, Singapore H. Ip, City University of Hong Kong, China N. Jennings, University of Southampton, UK K. Joy, University of California, USA I. Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA A. Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA P. Kalra, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi), INDIA H. Ko, Seoul National University, South Korea T. L. Kunii, Hosei University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan S. Y. Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea J. Lester, North Carolina State University, USA M. Lin, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA N. Lobo, UCF, USA B. Loftin, Old Dominion University, USA N. Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland D. Manocha, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA D. Metaxas, Rutgers University, USA L. Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland T. Molet, University of Geneva, Switzerland A. Nasri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon H. Noser, University of Zurich, Switzerland C. O'Sullivan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland D. Pai, Rutgers University, New-Brunswick, USA A. Paiva, INESC, Portugal R. Parent, Ohio State University, USA F. Parke, Texas A&M University, USA N. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA C. Pelachaud, U. Paris VII, France Q. Peng, Zhejiang University, China L. Porcher Nedel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil H. Pottmann, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria H. Qin, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA A. S. Rao, University of Washington, USA S. Raupp Musse, University do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil J. Rickel, University of Southern California, USA T. Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence , Germany L. Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, USA J. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA D. Samaras, SUNY Stony Brook, USA S. Sclaroff, Boston University, USA H. P. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Germany M. Shah, UCF, USA S. Y. Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea J. Stam, Alias Wavefront, USA Y. Suenaga, Nagoya University, Japan G. Szekely, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland D. Terzopoulos, New York University, USA D. Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland R. Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria D. R. Traum, University of Southern California, USA L. Velho, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil F. Vexo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland H. Vilhjalmsson, MIT, USA P. Volino, University of Geneva, Switzerland Y. Wu, TeraRecon Inc., USA