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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 28th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2015)<br>
May 11-13, 2015</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Website: <span style="color:blue">
<a href="http://conference.ntu.edu.sg/casa2015/">http://conference.ntu.edu.sg/casa2015/</a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for Papers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Institute for Media Innovation (IMI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Computer Graphics Society are pleased to announce the 28th International Conference on
Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2015) to be held on May 11-13, 2015 at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">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 short papers, and
posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Robots</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Motion Control
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Motion Capture and Retargeting
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Physics-based Animation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Image and Vision Based Animation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Behavioral Animation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Deformable bodies and surfaces</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Facial Animation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Image-based Animation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Knowledge-based Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Avatars and Autonomous Virtual Humans</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Emotion and Personality for Virtual Humans and Social
Robots</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<td width="378" valign="top" style="width:283.25pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social and Conversational Agents
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Inter-Agent Communication
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Social Behavior
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Crowd Simulation
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Action Recognition and Understanding</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Memory and Long-term Interaction for Virtual Humans
and Social Robots</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Animation Compression and Transmission
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Semantics and Ontologies in Animation
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Animation in Cultural Heritage
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3D Physiological Humans
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">3D Telepresence
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
The best short papers will be invited to submit a full paper to be published in a regular issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by Wiley.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There will be two awards:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Best Short Paper Award
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Best Poster Presentation Award</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#920000">Important Dates</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Submission Deadline:
</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Short Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>March 27, 2015</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Notification of Acceptance:</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Short Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>April 11, 2015</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Camera Ready:</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Short Papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> (4 pages) and
<b>Posters</b> (1 page) : <b>April 18, 2015</b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Conference Chairs</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Junfeng Yao, Xiamen University, China<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Program Chairs</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jian Jun Zhang, Bournemouth University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Daniel Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore & EPFL, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Local arrangement Co-chairs</span></u></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yiyu Cai, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Qi Cao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Poh Yian Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Yaminn Khin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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