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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) Bournemouth, UK, 2020
<a href="http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/"><span style="color:blue">http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) will be held in September, 2020 in Bournemouth, UK. The conference is organized by Bournemouth University together with the Computer
Graphics Society (CGS). 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 past few years, CASA was held in Belgium (2007), Korea
(2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012), Turkey (2013), United States (2014), Singapore (2015), Switzerland (2016), Korea (2017), China (2018) and France (2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">CASA 2020 will provide a great opportunity to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Submission for Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Submission: May 24, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2020 Camera ready: July 5, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Submission for a Subsequent Issue of CAVW and Conference Proceeding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Submission: June 21, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Notification of acceptance: July 12, 2020 Camera ready: July 26, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Workshops and Tutorials proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Submission: June 7, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Notification of acceptance: June 14, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">We invite submissions of research full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to Computer Animation, Embodied Agents, Social Agents, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and
Visualization (see below for a detailed list).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Papers submitted by 24 May 2020 will be considered for the special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) published by Wiley. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in the special issue,
about 28 papers in total. Those with major revision will be given a chance to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either rejected or recommended for publication in conference proceeding.
Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Papers submitted by 21 June 2020 will be considered for publication in a subsequent issue of CAVW and conference proceeding. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in the subsequent issue. Those with
major revision will be invited to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either accepted for publication in the conference proceeding or rejected. Authors will have to register and present
the papers at the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">More details in terms of submission can be found in Paper Submission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Computer Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Motion Control<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Motion Capture & Retargeting<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Path Planning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Physics-based Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Vision-based Techniques<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Behavioral Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Artificial Life<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Deformation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Facial Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Image-based Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Multi-Scale Models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Knowledge-based Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Social Agents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Social Agents and Avatars<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Emotion and Personality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Virtual Humans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Autonomous Actors<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> AI-based Animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Social and Conversational Agents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Inter-Agent Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Social Behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Crowd Simulation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Machine learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Other Related Topics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Animation Compression and Transmission<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Semantics and Ontologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Anthropometric Virtual Human Models<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Acquisition and Reconstruction from Big Data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Cultural Heritage Applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> 3D Physiological Humans<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> 3D Telepresence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Social Robots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"> Deep Learning methods<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Conference Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Jian Jun Zhang (Bournemouth University, UK) Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Program Co-Chairs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Xiaosong Yang (Bournemouth University, UK) Weiwei Xu (Zhejiang University, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Publicity Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Jian Chang (Bournemouth University, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Local Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-SG">Feng Tian (Bournemouth University, UK)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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