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       ***  Computer Animation and Social Agents 2007 ***
       ***                  CASA 2007                 ***
       ***              Call for Papers               ***
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!!!        Best ranked papers will be published in the          !!!
!!!       Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal         !!!
!!!                 published by John Wiley.                    !!!

   Other accepted papers will appear as proceedings with ISBN.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
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The Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) and the Computer Graphics
Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 20th annual conference on
Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2007) to be held on
June 11-13, 2007 in Hasselt, which is less than 1 hour drive away
from BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.
During three days, more than 150 professionals specialized in almost
all fields of Computer Animation and Social Agents will analyze the
state of the art of this topic and share their ideas, concepts and opinions.


CONFERENCE TOPICS
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Papers presenting original research are being sought in all areas of
computer animation and social agents.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

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 humans and avatars

Virtual Environments
- Medical 3D simulation
- Simulation involving Virtual Humans
- Virtual Cultural Heritage
- Autonomous characters and actors
- Virtual Collaborative Environments
- A.I. - based animation
- Virtual reality
- Interaction with Virtual Humans
- Augmented Reality
- Perceptual models
- Virtual Sensors

Semantic for 3D and Computer Animation
- Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation
- Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models for CA & VR
- Animation Compression and Transmission
- Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Environments
- Animation Analysis and Structuring
- Motion and Animation Reconstruction from Images
- Anthropometric Virtual Humans Models
- Knowledge-based CA Techniques
- Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data
- Level of Details for CA


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Original unpublished papers of up to 10 pages are invited.

The 35 best ranked papers will be published as Journal Papers in the
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal published by John Wiley.
Other accepted papers will appear as conference proceedings with ISBN
number.


IMPORTANT DATES
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- Paper submission due:      April 1, 2007
- Notification to authors:   May 1, 2007
- Camera ready papers:       May 15, 2007
- Start of conference:       June 11, 2007


CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
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Conference Chairs
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Frank Van Reeth
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
frank.vanreeth@uhasselt.be

Daniel Thalmann
The Virtual Reality Lab (VRLab)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland
daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch

Program Chairs
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Fabian Di Fiore
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
fabian.difiore@uhasselt.be

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
MIRALab
University of Geneva, Switzerland
thalmann@miralab.unige.ch

Sung Yong Shin
Korea Advanced Institute of
Science Technology (KAIST), Korea
syshin@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr

Local Committee
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Frank Van Reeth
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
frank.vanreeth@uhasselt.be

Fabian Di Fiore
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
fabian.difiore@uhasselt.be

Tom Van Laerhoven
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
tom.vanlaerhoven@uhasselt.be