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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">=================================================<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">CASA 2026 Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Call for Papers (Hybrid conference)</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><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;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The 39th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2026) will be held on June 1-3, 2026,
in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference is organized by the University of Geneva. Founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of Computer Animation (CA) by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS), CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and
social agents in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In the past few years, CASA has been held in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. CASA 2026 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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This year, the conference will be HYBRID. Authors will have the option to present their paper either in person or online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">* Submission deadline: February 15, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">* Preliminary Notification to Authors: March 30, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">* Revised papers submission deadline for CAVW journal: April 15, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">* Final Notification of CAVW Journal: May 10, 2026<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">* Author Registration: May 12 (final deadline)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">PAPER SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We invite submissions of research papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to Virtual and Extended
Reality, Computer Animation, Embodied Agents, Social Agents, and Visualization (see below for a detailed list). This year, we particularly welcome papers in the following domains: AI image generation, AI video generation, AI music generation, AI storytelling,
and AI applications in VR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and papers of high quality will be referred for publication
in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW, Impact Factor: 1.7) journal published by Wiley. The papers accepted as is or with minor revisions will be in a special issue. Those requiring 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. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference either onsite or online.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">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"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Extended Reality</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Tracking
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Computer Vision for AR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Mobile AR systems
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Spatial AR, projection mapping
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Localization, spatial registration
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">AR in Virtual Heritage
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Diminished Reality
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A.I. & Deep Learning in AR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Human augmentations
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Education and Training in AR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">LLM-powered AR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Virtual Environments</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Body gesture and action recognition
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hand Gestures and Poses
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Computer Vision Methods in VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Immersion and Presence
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Image Processing for VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Haptic interfaces
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sound
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Distributed VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Simulators (flight, car drive etc…)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">VR for rehabilitation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Locomotion and navigation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sensors and actuators
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Virtual surgery
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">EEG Analysis in VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A.I. & Deep Learning for VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Immersive games
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Perception, video quality
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ethical issues
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">User experience and usability
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">LLM-powered VR
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Embodied and Social Agents<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Virtual Humans
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Social Robots
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Perceptual models
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Interagent communication
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Modelling of groups and crowds
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Conversational agents
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Humanoid and Social Robots
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Behaviour modeling
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Interaction with Virtual Humans
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Intelligent virtual actors
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Emotions and personality
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A.I. & Deep Learning for Agents
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Computer Animation and Motion</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">2D animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">3D animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Inverse kinematics, dynamics
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Biomechanics models
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Motion capture and motion retargeting
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Physical-based animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Facial and body animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Path planning
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Cloth and hair animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Collision detection and avoidance
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Control of robots
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Crowd simulation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">LOD and impostors
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Geometry for Animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Real-time rendering
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">A.I. and deep learning in Animation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">AI Animation from Prompt/Images
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">LLM-powered animation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG">Visualization and Scientific Applications</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-SG"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Medical imaging and reconstruction
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fluid and flow visualization
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Fluid Simulation
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Visualization of physical phenomena
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Volume rendering
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Neuro and brain imaging
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Image Analysis and Processing for Visualization
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Computer Vision for Visualization
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">WEBSITE:
<a href="https://casa26.miralab.com/">https://casa26.miralab.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">CONFERENCE CHAIR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> * Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (MIRALab--University of Geneva, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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