[agents] CASA2009: Computer Animation and Social Agents. Call for papers

[A.Nijholt at ewi.utwente.nl]

CASA 2009

Computer Animation and Social Agents

http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09           

June 17-19 2009, Amsterdam

 

Call For Papers

The Human Media Interaction (HMI) department of the University of Twente
in the Netherlands and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased
to announce the 22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social
Agents (CASA 2009) to be held on June 17-19, 2009 in "Het Trippenhuis",
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

 

CASA is the leading international conference in the field of computer
animation and social agents. CASA 2009 will provide great opportunities
to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate
yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the
world. In addition, make friends and experience wonderful Amsterdam. The
conference venue is located on one of the famous canals of Amsterdam.

 

We are seeking regular full papers, short papers, and posters with the
following topics, but which are not limited to:

 

Animation Techniques : Motion Control, Motion Capture and Retargeting,
Path Planning, Physics based Animation, Image based Animation,
Behavioral Animation, Artificial Life, Deformation, Facial Animation,
Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models, Knowledge-based Animation,
Motion Synthesis;

 

Social Agents: Social Agents and Avatars, Emotion and Personality,
Virtual Humans, Autonomous Actors, AI based Animation, Social and
Conversational Agents, Inter-Agent Communication, Social Behavior,
Gesture Generation, Crowd Simulation;

 

Other Related Topics: Animation Compression and Transmission, Semantics
and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments, Animation Analysis and
Structuring, Anthropometric Virtual Human Models, Acquisition and
Reconstruction of Animation Data, Level of Details, Semantic
Representation of Motion and Animation, Medical Simulation, Cultural
Heritage, Interaction for Virtual Humans, Augmented Reality and Virtual
Reality, Computer Games and Online Virtual Worlds.

 

All accepted full papers, about 35 of them, will be published, at the
time of the conference, in a special issue of The Journal of Computer
Animation and Virtual Worlds by Wiley. Short papers and posters will be
published as CD or hardcopy proceedings with ISBN.

 

Important Dates are:

Full papers

 *Submission:  February 10, 2009

 *Notification of acceptance:  March 10, 2009

 *Camera ready:   April 1, 2009

 

Short papers and Posters

 *Submission:  March 15, 2009

 *Notification of acceptance:  April 15, 2009 

 *Camera/CD ready:  May 10, 2009

 

Conference Chair: Anton Nijholt, anijholt at cs.utwente.nl 

Program Chairs: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Mark Overmars, and Scott King

 

Local Chairs: Arjan Egges and Herwin van Welbergen

Webpage: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09