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<span style="color:black">[Apologies for cross-posting]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">IEEE AIVR 2021 Workshop on Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans (MARCH)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Location and date</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">The workshop IEEE-MARCH will take place during the 4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (IEEE AIVR) that will be held on November 15-17, 2021 in Taichung, Taiwan. Due to the COVID-19 situation,
the conference will be either online or hybrid, and the workshop will most likely be fully online.
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<span style="color:black">IEEE-MARCH is a half-day workshop. For more information, please visit the workshop’s website:
</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-aivr2021-march">https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-aivr2021-march</a>
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<b><span style="color:black">Description</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">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. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">The objective of this Workshop on Modeling and Animating Realistic Crowds and Humans (MARCH) 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 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:black">Invited Speakers</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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Jehee Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Nuria Pelechano (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:black">Scope</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">This workshop invites researchers to submit original, high-quality research papers related to modeling and animation of humans and/or crowds.
</span><span lang="NL" style="color:black">Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:</span><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-top:11.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Modeling and animation of humanoid characters<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Expressive character animation (e.g. face, gaze, gestures, ...)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
ML and deep learning algorithms for character animation<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Avatars in VR/AR<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
Social interaction and groups of virtual humans<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Navigation for autonomous characters<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:11.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Crowd simulation<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="color:black">Important Dates</span></b><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Submission deadline: <b>August 27, 2021</b><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Notifications: September 17, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:11.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
Workshop: November 15-17, 2021 (concrete date TBD)<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span lang="NL" style="color:black">Organizers:</span></b><span lang="NL"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="NL">Zerrin Yumak (Utrecht University, Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<span lang="NL">Wouter van Toll (INRIA, France)<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Funda Durupinar (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;margin-bottom:11.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
Tomer Weiss (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA) <o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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