Computer Animation and Social Agents

CASA 2020


Computer Graphics Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition



CALL FOR PAPERS
Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020), Bournemouth, UK, July 1-3, 2020
http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk
The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020), that will be held on July 1-3, 2020 in Bournemouth, UK. The conference is organized by Bournemouth University together with the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). 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 last past ten years, CASA was held in Belgium (2007), Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012), Turkey (2013), United States (2014), Singapore (2015), Switzerland (2016), Korea (2017), China (2018) and France (2019).
CASA 2020 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.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission for Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW) published by Wiley
Submission: March 16, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2020
Camera ready: May 4, 2020
Submission for a Subsequent Issue of CAVW and Conference Proceeding
Submission: April 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2020
Camera ready: May 25, 2020
Workshops and Tutorials proposal
Submission: April 13th, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 2020
PAPER SUBMISSION
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).
Papers submitted by 16th March 2020 will be considered for the special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) published by Wiley. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in the special issue, about 28 papers in total. 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 proceeding. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.
Papers submitted by 20th April 2020 will be considered for publication in a subsequent issue of CAVW and conference proceeding. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in the subsequent issue. Those with major revision will be invited to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either accepted for publication in the conference proceeding or rejected. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.
More details in terms of submission can be found in Paper Submission.
SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
Computer Animation
Motion Control
Motion Capture & Retargeting
Path Planning
Physics-based Animation
Vision-based Techniques
Behavioral Animation
Artificial Life
Deformation
Facial Animation
Image-based Animation
Multi-Scale Models
Knowledge-based Animation
Social Agents
Social Agents and Avatars
Emotion and Personality
Virtual Humans
Autonomous Actors
AI-based Animation
Social and Conversational Agents
Inter-Agent Communication
Social Behavior
Crowd Simulation
Machine learning
Other Related Topics
Animation Compression and Transmission
Semantics and Ontologies
Anthropometric Virtual Human Models
Acquisition and Reconstruction from Big Data
Cultural Heritage Applications
3D Physiological Humans
3D Telepresence
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Social Robots
Deep Learning methods
Conference Co-Chairs
Jian Jun Zhang (Bournemouth University, UK)
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Program Co-Chairs
Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
Xiaosong Yang (Bournemouth University, UK)
Weiwei Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
Publicity Chair
Jian Chang (Bournemouth University, UK)
Local Chair
Feng Tian (Bournemouth University, UK)