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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:12.0pt;text-align:center"><b><span 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 style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:DengXian">Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2023)
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Limassol, Cyprus, May 29-31, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span lang="FR-CH" 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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify">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 lang="FR-CH"><a href="https://www.ucy.ac.cy/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">University of Cyprus</span></a></span> and
<span lang="FR-CH"><a href="https://www.cyens.org.cy/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0563C1">CYENS - Centre of Excellence</span></a></span>. 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></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Submission for Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Submission:</b> <b><span style="color:#00B050">February 24, 2023</span></b><span style="color:#00B050">
</span>(23:59 GMT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Notification of acceptance:</b>
<b><span style="color:#00B050">March 24, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Camera ready:</b> <b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><span style="color:#00B050">
</span>(23:59 GMT)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Author Registration:</b> <b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Workshops and Tutorials proposal<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Submission:</b> <b><span style="color:#00B050">March 31, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Notification of acceptance:</b>
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Posters and Demos<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Submission:</b> <b><span style="color:#00B050">March 31, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Notification of acceptance:</b>
<b><span style="color:#00B050">April 21, 2023</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">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></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">More details in terms of submission can be found in the Paper Submission section of CASA2023 website.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span 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">CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:<o:p></o:p></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 style="color:white">Other Related Topics (in VA/AR)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Motion Control</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Motion Capture & Retargeting</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Path Planning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Physics-based Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Vision-based Techniques</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Behavioral Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Artificial Life</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Deformation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Facial Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Image-based Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Multi-Scale Models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Knowledge-based Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Animation Compression & Transmission</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">Machine Learning for Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">AI-based Modeling and Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#111111">Game-Based Learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Agents and Avatars</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Emotion and Personality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual Humans</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Autonomous Actors</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">AI-based Animation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Social and Conversational Agents</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Inter-Agent Communication</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Behavior</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Crowd Simulation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Machine learning</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Social Robots</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Deep Learning methods</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Artificial Agents in Virtual Reality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Mixed and Augmented Reality</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Population Generation for Virtual Worlds</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual Cities</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Virtual humans and avatars</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Digital clones</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">VR health applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Shared Virtual Environments</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Semantics & Ontologies for Animation in VR</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Anthropometric Virtual Human Models</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Acquisition & Reconstruction from Big Data</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Cultural Heritage Applications</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">3D Physiological Humans</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">3D Telepresence</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Haptics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Conference Co-Chairs</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="FR-CH">Panayiotis Charalambous (CYENS CoE, Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="FR-CH">Nuria Pelechano (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC, Spain)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Program Co-Chairs</span><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="FR-CH">Daniel Thalmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne – EPFL, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Andreas Aristidou (University of Cyprus)<o:p></o:p></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 style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050;text-transform:uppercase">Jury Chairs</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#00B050"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Yiorgos Chrysanthou (CYENS CoE)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Kfir Aberman (Google Research, CA, USA)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">For more information, please visit the CASA 2023 website:
<span lang="FR-CH"><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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