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CASA 2018: The 31th Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents

Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Beijing, China, May 21-24, 2018

Conference website	http://casa2018.ios.ac.cn/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=casa2018
Submission deadline	January 27, 2018

Topics: computer animation virtual reality robotics social agents

The 31^th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2018) is organized by State Key Laboratory of Computer Science (SKLCS), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with ACM-SIGGRAPH, under guidance of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS).

CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. In the last ten years, CASA was held in Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012), Turkey (2013), United States (2014), Singapore (2015), Switzerland (2016) and Korea (2017).

Submission Guidelines

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. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference, and will be reviewed via a double-blind review process.

For more information, please visit the CASA 2018 website http://casa2018.ios.ac.cn.

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

Committees

Conference Co-Chairs

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland and NTU, Singapore

Enhua Wu, ISCAS and University of Macau, China

Program Co-chairs

Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland

Leonid Sigal, University of British Columbia, Canada

Wencheng Wang, ISCAS, China

Workshop Chair

Hui Chen, ISCSA, China

Publicity Chair

Hanqiu Sun, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Program Committee

Ryoichi Ando, National Institute of Informatics

Norman Badler, University of Pennsylvania

Selim Balcisoy, Sabanci University

Tim Balint, George Mason University

Jan Bender, RWTH Aachen University

Andrea Bönsch, RWTH Aachen University

Ronan Boulic, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Marc Cavazza, University of Kent

Raphaëlle Chaine, LIRIS Université Lyon,

Jian Chang, Bournemouth University

Parag Chaudhuri, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Guoning Chen, University of Houston

Hui Chen, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Justin Dauwels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Etienne de Sevin, SANPSY University of Bordeaux

Zhigang Deng, University of Houston

Weiming Dong, Institute of Automation, CAS

Abdennour El Rhalibi, Liverpool John Moores University

Kenny Erleben, Copenhagen University

Petros Faloutsos, York University

Ugur Gudukbay, Bilkent University

Xiaohu Guo, The University of Texas at Dallas

Stephen Guy, University of Minnesota

James Hahn, George Washington University

Ying He, Nanyang Technological University

Klaus Hildebrandt, Delft University of Technology

Veysi Isler, Middle East Technical University (METU)

Xiaogang Jin, Zhejiang University

Marcelo Kallmann, University of California, Merced

Mubbasir Kapadia, Rutgers University

Min H. Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Scott King, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

Taku Komura, University of Edinburgh

Rynson Lau, City University of Hong Kong

Wonsook Lee, University of Ottawa

Sung-Hee Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

J.P. Lewis, Weta Digital, Victoria University

Dingzeyu Li, Columbia University

Tsai-Yen Li, National Chengchi University

Xiaohui Liang, Beihang university

Yue Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology

Youquan Liu, Chang'an University

Chongyang Ma, Snap Research

Anderson Maciel, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Nicolas Mellado, Université de Toulouse

Franck Multon, University Rennes2

Soraia Musse, Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Roi Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

Florian Pecune, Telecom Paristech

Nuria Pelechano, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya

Julien Pettre, INRIA

Nicolas Pronost, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

Brian Ravenet, INESC-ID

Bo Ren, Nankai University

Craig Schroeder, University of California Riverside

Bin Sheng, Shanghai Jiaotong University

Takaaki Shiratori, Oculus Research

Hubert P. H. Shum, Northumbria University

Shinjiro Sueda, Texas A&M University

Hanqiu Sun, The Chinese University of Hongkong

Daniel Thalmann, Nanyang Technological University

Yiying Tong, Michigan State University

Changhe Tu, Shandong University

Etienne Vouga, University of Texas at Austin

Guoping Wang, Peking University

Shihong Xia, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS

Kun Xu, Tsinghua University

Xubo Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yin Yang, University of New Mexico

Xiaosong Yang, Bournemouth University

Yuting Ye, Oculus Research

Jinhui Yu, Zhejiang University

Zerrin Yumak, Utrecht University

Jianjun Zhang, Bournemouth University

Yanci Zhang, Sichuan University

Publication

28 accepted full papers will be recommended to publish in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by Wiley (CAVW). The short papers and posters will be published in the ACM digital library. All submissions will be reviewed via a double-blind review process.

Venue

The conference will be held in Beijing, China.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Wencheng Wang (Email: whn@ios.ac.cn)