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<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;"><b>IEEE AIVR 2019 Workshop on Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans (MARCH)</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Location and date</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;">The workshop IEEE-MARCH will take place during the Second IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality that will be held from December 9-11, 2019 in San Diego,
California, USA.</div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;">IEEE-MARCH is a half-day workshop. For more information, please visit the workshop’s website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-aivr2019-march"><font color="#1155CC"><u>https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-aivr2019-march</u></font></a></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Description</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;">Digital humans are key aspects of the rapidly evolving areas of virtual reality, augmented reality, virtual production, and gaming. They are becoming more and more commonly used for entertainment,
education, health, security, and many other purposes. Modeling and animating digital humans are still challenging tasks that may lead to uncanny results if not properly achieved. Creating crowds and groups of digital humans adds another layer of complexity. </div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;">The objective of this <b>Workshop on Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans</b> is to present the state of the art and new research perspectives on three key challenges: modeling digital
humans, animating them, and creating groups/crowds of realistic autonomous characters. The workshop aims to establish a new platform for the development of virtual human technology at the intersection of Artificial intelligence (AI) and Virtual reality (VR).
We expect that the workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers to develop new techniques, and will lead to new collaboration among the participants. </div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Scope</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:12pt;">This workshop invites researchers to submit original, high-quality research papers related to modeling and animation of humans and/or crowds. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:</div>
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<li style="margin-top:11pt;">Modeling and animation of humanoid characters</li><li>Expressive character animation (e.g. face, gaze, gestures, ...)</li><li>ML and deep learning algorithms for character animation</li><li>Avatars in VR/AR</li><li>Social interaction and groups of virtual humans</li><li>Navigation for autonomous characters</li><li style="margin-bottom:11pt;">Crowd simulation</li></ul>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Important Dates</b></div>
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<li style="margin-top:11pt;">Submission deadline: <b>September 30, 2019</b></li><li>Notifications: October 15, 2019</li><li>Camera-ready deadline: October 26, 2019</li><li style="margin-bottom:11pt;">Workshop: December 9-11, 2019 (concrete date TBD)</li></ul>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Instructions for Submission</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-bottom:12pt;">Authors are invited to submit a technical or position paper of <b>1 to 4 pages</b>, in double-column IEEE format following the official<a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html"> <font color="#1155CC"><u>IEEE
Manuscript Formatting guidelines</u></font></a>. Please <b>anonymize </b>your submissions, as the workshop uses a double-blind review process. Authors of accepted papers are expected to attend the conference and present their paper at the workshop. </div>
<div style="margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;">Please submit your paper using EasyChair:<br>
<a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaivr2019"><font color="#1155CC"><u>https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ieeeaivr2019</u></font></a>.
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When starting your submission, please make sure to select the track <i>"IEEE AIVR 2019 - Workshop on Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans"</i>.</div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Proceedings and Copyright</b></div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;">Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings and will appear on IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Also consider the <a href="https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/index.html"><font color="#1155CC"><u>IEEE
policies for publications</u></font></a> (i.e. you must own the copyright to all parts, and the manuscript must be original work and not currently under review elsewhere). </div>
<div style="text-align:left;margin-top:11pt;margin-bottom:11pt;"><b>Organizers:</b></div>
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<li style="margin-top:11pt;">Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University, Netherlands)</li><li>Wouter van Toll (INRIA, France)</li><li>Anne-Hélène Olivier (Univ. Rennes and INRIA, France)</li><li style="margin-bottom:11pt;">Julien Pettré (INRIA, France) </li></ul>
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