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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:15.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Call for Papers</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">The 29th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2016) will be held at University of Geneva, on the beautiful Biotech
Campus on May 23-25, 2016.</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. It was founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name
of Computer Animation (CA). In the last past ten years, CASA was held in Hong Kong
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2005)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, Switzerland
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2006)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, Belgium
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2007)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, Korea
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2008)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">, Netherlands
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2009), </span>
<span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">France </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2010),</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> China
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2011), </span>
<span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Singapore </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2012),
</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">Turkey </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2013),
</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">United States </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2014)</span><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT"> and Singapore
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">(2015).</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">We seek research full papers<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span>and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Computer Animation</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">2D and 3D animation systems</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Inverse kinematics</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Biomechanics models</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Motion capture and motion retargeting</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Physical-based animation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Facial and body animation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Path planning</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Cloth and hair animation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">LOD and impostors</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Real-time rendering</span><span style=""></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Embodied Agents</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Perceptual models</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Avatars and Autonomous Virtual Humans</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Interagent communication</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Groups and Crowd Simulation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Social and Conversational agents</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Interaction with Virtual Humans</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Intelligent virtual actors</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Memory and behaviour models</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Emotions and personality</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Simulation involving Virtual Humans</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Autonomous Virtual Humans in game</span><span style=""></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual and Augmented Reality</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Tracking</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Gesture and action recognition</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Augmented and Mixed Reality</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">3D TelePresence</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Mobile VR and AR systems</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Haptic interfaces</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Audiospace</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Immersive simulators (flight, car drive etc…)</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual Rehabilitation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual surgery</span><span style=""></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual Life</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Plant development and growing</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Artificial animals and animats</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Population generation</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Virtual cities</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Persistent worlds</span><span style=""></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Visualization</span></b><span style=""></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Medical imaging and reconstruction</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Molecular graphics</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fluid visualization</span><span style=""></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Visualization of physical phenomena</span><span style=""></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT">All accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by Wiley (CAVW). The
short papers are published in the proceedings CASA 2016 with ISBN number.</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; text-align:justify"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="FR" style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; text-align:justify"><b><i><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Full Papers (10 pages):</span></i></b><span lang="FR-CH" style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission: 6 February 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Camera ready: 20 March 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submission: 27 March 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Camera ready: 18 April 2016</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Conference Chairs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Prof. Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Singapore</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Program Chairs</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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Taku Komura, Edingburgh University, UK <br>
Frederic Cordier, University of Haute-Alsace, France<br>
Daniel Thalmann, NTU, Singapore</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt; line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; line-height:115%; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">For more information, contact:
<a href="mailto:thalmann@miralab.ch">thalmann@miralab.ch</a></span></p>
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