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Geneva-Switzerland: July 7-9, 2004

 April 9, 2004:           Paper 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).

http://casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/

The topics of interest in Computer Animation and Social Agents 2004

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

Important Dates

April 9, 2004:           Paper Submission Deadline

May 7, 2004:            Papers Notification

May 17, 2004:          Camera Ready Papers to the Publisher

July 7-9, 2004:         Start of CASA2004

 

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 Pelachaud
IUT de Montreuil- 
Universite de Paris 8, France
c.pelachaud@iut.univ-paris8.fr 

> Virtual environments

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

Paper Submission Procedures

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 12 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 there will be instructions on the web Any 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