The 19th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2006)

Geneva, Switzerland, 5th - 7th July 2006

Website: http://casa2006.miralab.unige.ch/

E-mail: casa2006@miralab.unige.ch

Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

MIRALab will organize the 19th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2006) with the support of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). The Conference will be held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 5th - 7th July 2006.

During three days, more than 100 professionals specialized in almost all fields of Computer Animation will analyze the state of the art of this topic and share their ideas, concepts and opinions.

The conference tracks include:

Animation Techniques - Motion control - Motion capture and retargeting - Path planning - Physics-based animation - Vision techniques in animation - Behavioral animation - Artificial life - Image rendering in animation - Deformable Models - Facial Animation

Social agents - Social agents and avatars - Emotions and personality - Simulation involving Virtual Humans - Autonomous characters and actors - A.I. - based animation - Social and Conversational agents - Interagent communication - Modeling of groups and crowds - Social behavior - Autonomous Virtual Humans in games

Virtual Environnement - Medical 3D simulation - Simulation involving Virtual Humans - Virtual Cultural Heritage - Autonomous characters and actors - VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) - A.I. - based animation - Virtual reality - Interaction with Virtual Humans - Augmented Reality - Perceptual models - Virtual Sensors

Paper Format

Original unpublished papers of up to 12 pages (single-spaced, 12 point, including figures, tables and references) are invited. Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author's information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address). Submission will be online and there will be instructions on the web Any animation sequences should be uploaded as an archive .zip file with your manuscript.

Submission

Submissions are made electronically, in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted). All full papers will be published as a journal paper in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by John Wiley.

IMPORTANT DATES OF CASA2006:

1) Paper submission due: April 10th 2006
2) Notification to authors : May 2nd 2006
3) Camera ready accepted papers to Wiley : May 12th 2006
4) Conference venue : 5th-7th July 2006 at the University of Geneva (Uni Dufour)

CONTACT

All queries can be sent to:

The CASA2006 Local Committee
Email: casa2006@miralab.unige.ch
Fax: +41 22 379 00 79