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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:18.0pt;color:#00B050">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:DengXian">Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2023)
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:DengXian"><br>
Limassol, Cyprus, May 29-31, 2023</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-family:DengXian;color:red"><a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023</span></a></span></u></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">The 36th International Conference on
<b><span style="color:#00B050">Computer Animation and Social Agents</span></b> (CASA 2023) will be held on
<b><span style="color:#00B050">May 29-31, 2023, in Limassol, Cyprus</span></b>. The conference is organized by the
</span><a href="https://www.ucy.ac.cy/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">University of Cyprus</span></a><span lang="EN-US"> and
</span><a href="https://www.cyens.org.cy/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">CYENS - Centre of Excellence</span></a><span lang="EN-US">. 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 Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, UK, etc.), Asia (Korea, China, Singapore) and the United States. CASA 2023 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Submission for Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">February 24, 2023</span></b><span style="color:#00B050">
</span>(23:59 GMT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">March 24, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Camera ready:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><span style="color:#00B050">
</span>(23:59 GMT)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Author Registration:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Workshops and Tutorials proposal<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">March 31, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Posters and Demos<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Submission:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">March 31, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US">Notification of acceptance:</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and papers of high quality will be referred for publication in the<b>
<span style="color:#00B050">Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW)</span> </b>
journal published by Wiley.<b> The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in a special issue.</b> 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 proceedings.
<b>Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">More details in terms of submission can be found in the Paper Submission section of CASA2023 website.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050">SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:white">Computer Animation</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:white">Social Agents</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:white">Other Related Topics (in VA/AR)</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Motion Control</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Motion Capture & Retargeting</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Path Planning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Physics-based Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Vision-based Techniques</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Behavioral Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Artificial Life</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Deformation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Facial Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Image-based Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Multi-Scale Models</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge-based Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Animation Compression & Transmission</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">Machine Learning for Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">AI-based Modeling and Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">Game-Based Learning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Agents and Avatars</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Emotion and Personality</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual Humans</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Autonomous Actors</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">AI-based Animation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Social and Conversational Agents</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Inter-Agent Communication</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Behavior</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Crowd Simulation</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Machine learning</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Robots</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Deep Learning methods</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Artificial Agents in Virtual Reality</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Mixed and Augmented Reality</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Population Generation for Virtual Worlds</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual Cities</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual humans and avatars</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Digital clones</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">VR health applications</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Shared Virtual Environments</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Semantics & Ontologies for Animation in VR</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Acquisition & Reconstruction from Big Data</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Cultural Heritage Applications</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">3D Physiological Humans</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">3D Telepresence</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt">Haptics</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Conference Co-Chairs</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Panayiotis Charalambous (CYENS CoE, Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Nuria Pelechano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, Spain)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Program Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Daniel Thalmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE-CH">Jungdam Won (Meta AI, Pittsburgh, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Jury Chairs</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CYENS CoE)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Kfir Aberman (Google Research, CA, USA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">For more information, please visit the CASA 2023 website:
</span><a href="https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">https://cyprusconferences.org/casa2023</span></a>
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