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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014)</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">May 26-28, 2014
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The University of Houston and Computer Graphics Society are pleased to announce the 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014)
to be held on May 26-28, 2014 at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA.<br>
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CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. We seek research full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited
to:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Computer Animation:
</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Motion Control</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Motion Capture and Retargeting</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Path Planning</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Physics-based Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Vision-based Techniques</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Behavioral Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Artificial Life</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deformation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Facial Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Image-based Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Knowledge-based Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Agents:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Agents and Avatars</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Emotion and Personality</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Virtual Humans</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Autonomous Actors</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">AI-based Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social and Conversational Agents</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Inter-Agent Communication</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Behavior</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Crowd Simulation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Other Related Topics:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Animation Compression and Transmission</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Animation Analysis and Structuring</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Level of Details</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cultural Heritage</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interaction for Virtual Humans</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3D Physiological Humans</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3D Telepresence</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></li></ul>
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The best 30 accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal by Wiley.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#920000">Important Dates</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="color:red">Submission Deadline: </span>
</u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Full papers</span></b><span style=""> (10 pages):
<b>February 12, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Short Papers</span></b><span style=""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>March 20, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="color:red">Notification of Acceptance:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Full papers</span></b><span style=""> (10 pages):
<b>March 12, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Short Papers</span></b><span style=""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>April 4, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="color:red">Camera Ready:</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Full papers</span></b><span style=""> (10 pages):
<b>March 25, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="">Short Papers</span></b><span style=""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>April 11, 2014</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference co-chairs</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Zhigang Deng, U. of Houston, USA<br>
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, U. of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological U., Singapore</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Program co-chairs</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological U., Singapore<br>
John P. Lewis, Victoria U. of Wellington, New Zealand<br>
Pierre Poulin, U. of Montreal, Canada</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Workshop chair</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">to be announced</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Publicity chair</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Xiaohu Guo, U. of Texas at Dallas, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Local arrangement</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
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<b><u>co-chairs</u></b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Guoning Chen, U. of Houston, USA<br>
Binh H. Le, U. of Houston, USA</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International program committee</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To be announced</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">---------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Prof. Daniel Thalmann</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Institute for Media Innovation (IMI)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Nanyang Technological University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas">Email: <a href="mailto:danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg">
danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg</a></span></p>
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