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