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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">CASA 2013 - Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">May 16-18, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG"><a href="http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~casa2013/">www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~casa2013/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Bilkent University, Sabanci University, Microsoft Turkey and Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 26th International
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2013) to be held on May 16-18, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents. It was founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Computer Animation (CA). In the past six years, CASA was held in Switzerland (2006), Belgium (2007), Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">France (2010), China (2011), Singapore 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">CASA 2013 will provide a great opportunity to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">to the research of your peers from around the world.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">All accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal published by Wiley.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">We are seeking regular full papers, short papers, and posters with the following topics, but which are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Animation Techniques: Motion Control, Motion Capture and Retargeting, Path Planning, Physics-Based Animation, Vision based Techniques,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Behavioral Animation, Artificial Life, Deformation, Facial Animation, Image-Based Animation, Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models, Knowledge-based Animation, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Social Agents: Social Agents and Avatars, Emotion and Personality, Virtual Humans, Autonomous Actors, AI-Based Animation, Social and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Conversational Agents, Inter-Agent Communication, Social Behavior, Crowd Simulation, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Other Related Topics: Animation Compression and Transmission, Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments, Animation
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Analysis and Structuring, Anthropometric Virtual Human Models, Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data, Level of Details,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation, Cultural Heritage, Interaction for Virtual Humans, 3D Physiological Humans,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">3D Telepresence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Paper submission directives:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Conference Dates : May 16-18, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Full Papers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">All accepted full papers will appear in the journal CAVW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Submission : January 21, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Notification of acceptance : February 26, 2013 Camera ready : March 15, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Short Papers (4 pages) and Posters<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">All short accepted papers will be selected for possible further submission to the journal CAVW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Submission : March 28, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Notification of acceptance : April 24, 2013 Camera/CD ready : April 29, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">ORGANIZATION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Conference Chairs: Mustafa Kasap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Program Chairs: Tolga Capin, Selim Balcisoy, Daniel Thalmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Prof. Daniel Thalmann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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