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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, 8th March 2025 8:30-12:30, 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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<p class="MsoNormal"
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FR">NGA – Next Generation of Avatars MARCH 8th 2025, 8:30-12:30<br>
</span></b></p>
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"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
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"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:6.0pt;
text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span
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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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
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 simulation, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Avatar control, </span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Avatar rendering, </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-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:FR">Ethics, GDPR and regulations related to avatar
use</span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
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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normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
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"
style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
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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normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
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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normal;background:white"><span
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-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
mso-fareast-language:FR"> </span></p>
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normal;background:white"><span lang="EN-US"
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"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;
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">Notification: February 3, 2025 </span></p>
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style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Camera-ready deadline : February 21, 2025</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Workshop date : March 8th, 2025 8:30-12:30<br>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Organizers:</span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Franck Multon, Inria, </span><span
style="color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:franck.multon@inria.fr"><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">franck.multon@inria.fr</span></a> (contact)</span><span lang="EN-US"
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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">Ludovic Hoyet, Inria, </span><span
style="color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a href="mailto:ludovic.hoyet@inria.fr"><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">ludovic.hoyet@inria.fr</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span
lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span></span></p>
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Quentin</span><span
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color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR"> Avril, InterDigital, </span><span
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"><a
href="mailto:Quentin.Avril@InterDigital.com"><span
style="font-family:Roboto;
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mso-fareast-language:FR">Quentin.Avril@InterDigital.com</span></a></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
style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext"> </span><span
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;
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-fareast-language:FR">victoria.abrevaya@tuebingen.mpg.de</span></a></span><span
style="font-family:Roboto;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-fareast-language:FR"><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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