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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:22.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for papers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">International Workshop on Autonomous Virtual Humans and Social Robot for Tele-presence</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">(in conjunction with SIGGRAPH Asia)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:17.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Shenzhen, China, Dec.3 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sophisticated systems are developed with 3D capturing and rendering leading to a true 3D TelePresence experience. If the 3D avatar is distantly
guided by the real participant, it is possible to replace this real participant by its autonomous virtual or artificial counterpart. It is supposed to give a partial illusion that the real person is present. This implies that it should look the same as the
real human, speaks with the same intonation, and be somehow aware of the real situation, the real participants, and the task currently performed. It should react at the right time based on the perception he/she has from the real participants. Autonomous social
robots and autonomous virtual humans have a lot in common, but, the main difference is that the social robots exist physically while autonomous Virtual Humans are software-based visual agents. In terms of research, the problems to solve for both social robots
and virtual humans are very similar. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This workshop will bring to the SIGGRAPH community the last developments in this up-to-date area of research.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">We are seeking full papers with the following topics, but which are not limited to:
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<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Teleoperation and telepresence
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">3D interaction for VR/AR/MR
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tracking and sensing
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">User studies and evaluation
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Perception, presence, and cognition
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Navigation
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gesture recognition, hand recognition, face recognition
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Sound classification, sound localization
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Multiparty dialogs and dialogue management
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Affective computing
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Decision making
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Personality
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Expressive behavior generation
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Short-term and long-term memory
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Groups and collective behavior
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Locomotion
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Learning (e.g. by example)
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Emotion models
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gaze Animation and attention
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cooperation between humans and social robots
</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Proceedings of the workshop will be included in the ACM Digital Library.
<b>At least one author of each accepted</b> workshop paper has to <b>register for SIGGRAPH Asia 2014 (full conference pass)</b> by
<b>15 September 2014</b>, and <b>give a presentation at the workshop</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">All workshop research papers must be original, unpublished work, written and presented in English.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">To recognize the contribution of workshop paper presenters, the presenters can apply for a 25% discount per accepted paper submission.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important Dates</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission of full papers:
<b>July 19, 2014</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Notification of acceptance:
<b>August 15, 2014</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Camera ready copy:
<b>September 8, 2014</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Workshop date:
<b>December 03, 2014</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Organizing Committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Daniel Thalmann, NTU, SG</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.5pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Junsong Yuan, NTU, SG</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Web site: <a href="http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/imi/SG_AVH2014/index.html">
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/imi/SG_AVH2014/index.html</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Contact: <a href="mailto:danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg">danielthalmann@ntu.edu.sg</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#1F497D">---------------------------------------------------</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#1F497D">Prof. Daniel Thalmann</span></p>
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