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<p>Dear colleagues, <br>
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<p>we are pleased to announce the first IEEE VR Workshop on "Next
Generation Avatars", to be help during the IEEE VR 2025
conference, 8-12 March 2025 in Saint-Malo, France (<span
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NGA2025 is a half-day on-site workshop which focuses on the very
last advancement in avatar capture, modeling, control, animation,
interaction and user-studies, with interests also in ethical
questions. <br>
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FR">NGA – Next Generation of Avatars <br>
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FR">More details can be found here: </span><span
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windowtext"><a href="https://project.inria.fr/nga2025/"><span
lang="EN-US"
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EN-US">project.inria.fr/nga2025</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"
style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
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lang="EN-US"
style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR">Recent advances in deep learning, neural representations, and
physics-based
character simulation… have contributed to a breakthrough in
avatar design,
simulation, control and rendering. Computer vision now enables
detailed and
accurate pose and shape capture with affordable systems (e.g. a
single RGB
camera) in real-time, and to build controllable representations
of specific
users instead of anonymous virtual humans. In particular,
advances in
image-based rendering, such as NERF or Gaussian Splatting, also
offer new
challenges to control high quality avatars, opening new
questions about avatar
control, and its impact on human experience in VR. Novel view
synthesis based
on sparse views of the user may be a promising alternative to
traditional
character simulation, especially in teleoperation and
telepresence
applications, among many others. Furthermore, motion control
including
retargeting and interaction are still open and difficult
problems, that may
benefit from the above-mentioned new representations. How to
retarget the
motion of the user on an avatar simulated with these new
representations? In
traditional rendering pipelines, how to benefit from new
information, such as
the surface of the user, to adapt the pose of the avatar in
real-time?
Alternatively, how to control this avatar, with all the possible
representations, using only a few sensors (e.g. controllers,
inertial
sensors…)? All these new possibilities may have various impacts
on the user
experience. How can new representations, new control metaphors
or devices, and
new ways of doing character simulation, enhance the VR
experience of users? How
can we evaluate these new methods to measure the degree of
interaction,
embodiment, agency, and impact? What are the potential risks and
limitations of
these approaches from the user perspective? The goal of the
workshop is to
discuss different aspects of the most recent works in this
domain, and explore
how it would impact future research in VR. After scientific
presentations,
showcasing the latest research advances in avatar
representation, simulation
and control, a round table will help to imagine the next
generation of avatars,
and their impact on user experience. </span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">We call for submissions
of
research papers and technical notes (4-8 pages) or position
papers and
work-in-progress research abstracts (2-3 pages) on the following
topics:</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Avatar modeling, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Avatar control, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">User experience with avatars, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Interaction paradigms with avatars, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Ethics, GDPR and regulations related to avatar
use</span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">Accepted papers will be
presented in scientific sessions, encouraging interaction with
the audience (15
minutes talk + 15 minutes discussion) to help imagining the
future trends of
avatar modeling, representation, control and interaction. A
round table composed
of selected contributors will conclude the workshop: “Next
Generation of
Avatars: promises and limits”. </span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">All the submissions
should
follow the IEEE Computer Society VGTC conference format (</span><span
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/"
target="_blank"><b><span lang="EN-US"
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#DF7603;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:FR">https://tc.computer.org/vgtc/publications/conference/</span></b></a></span><span
lang="EN-US"
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:FR">). </span></p>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">Submissions must be
camera-ready. NGA2025 uses double-blind reviewing, so please
remove all
personal data, such as author names and affiliation from all
your submission
files. <br>
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR"> Papers should be
submitted
thanks to the Easychair system: </span></p>
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style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nga2025"><span
lang="EN-US"
style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nga2025</span></a></span><span
lang="EN-US"
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:FR">Important dates:</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Submission deadline: January 10, 2025</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Camera-ready deadline : February 21, 2025</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Franck Multon, Inria, </span><span
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lang="EN-US"
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mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
FR">franck.multon@inria.fr</span></a> (contact)</span><span lang="EN-US"
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Ludovic Hoyet, Inria, </span><span
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lang="EN-US"
style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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FR">ludovic.hoyet@inria.fr</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span
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color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR"> Avril, InterDigital, </span><span
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style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR">Victoria
Fernández
Abrevaya,</span><span
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style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR">Max
Planck Institute for
Intelligent Systems, </span><span
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="mailto:victoria.abrevaya@tuebingen.mpg.de"><span
style="font-family:Roboto;
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mso-fareast-language:FR">victoria.abrevaya@tuebingen.mpg.de</span></a></span><span
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MULTON Franck
Senior Researcher, Inria
Leader of MimeTIC INRIA Team common with M2S Lab, University Rennes2
Centre de recherche INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique
Campus de Beaulieu
35042 Rennes Cedex
FRANCE
web : <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.irisa.fr/mimetic">http://www.irisa.fr/mimetic</a>
tel : +33 631646357
mail : <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fmulton@irisa.fr">fmulton@irisa.fr</a>
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