CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

ACM 3rd INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FACIAL ANALYSIS AND ANIMATION (FAA)

                                                 http://faa2012.ftw.at/

Museum of Young Art, Vienna. September 21st, 2012

REGISTRATION IS OPEN AT:

http://faa2012.ftw.at/registration.html

Confirmed Speakers:

Mark Pauly, EPFL
Jorn Ostermann, TNT

List of accepted authors:

http://faa2012.ftw.at/programme.html

Facial animation is a broad and exciting area of research drawing on  
multiple disciplines: computer graphics and animation provide the  
means to render and display a face, computer vision can be used to  
measure, interpret and decode facial actions, while psychology can  
help provide the emotive human element of animation. However, creating  
convincing facial animation is an exceptionally difficult task – each  
one of us is an expert judge in deciding whether an animation is  
realistic or not. In today’s world, facial animation has more  
applications than ever before: from video game characters to movie  
actor doubles, from machine facial displays to psychological research  
stimuli.

Following on from the success of FAA 2009 (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa2009/ 
), and FAA 2010 (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/faa/), we are pleased to  
announce a call for submissions for FAA 2012, in cooperation with ACM.  
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers and  
practitioners from both academia and industry – particularly in VFX  
and games - interested in all aspects of facial animation and related  
analysis. Submissions are invited in the following broad topic areas:

•       Acquisition of Facial Shape, Motion and Texture
•       Performance Driven Animation and Expression Mapping
•       Facial animation using Example Based Synthesis and Motion  
Graph based techniques
•       Facial Animation Production Pipelines
•       Visual Speech Synthesis
•       Animation of Non-Linguistic Behaviors and Vocalisations
•       Perception of Facial Animation and the "Uncanny Valley"
•       Facial Rendering (Photorealistic and Non-Photorealistic)
•       Virtual Characters for Telepresence / Embodied Virtual Agents
•       Facial Model Based Coding and Compression
•       Facial Analysis and Animation for Mobile Applications


We hope to see you in Vienna!

FAA Chairs: Darren Cosker (Uni. of Bath), Michael Pucher (FTW), Gregor  
Hofer (FTW), Michael Berger (Uni. of Edinburgh) and Will Smith (Uni.  
of York).

For general inquiries regarding FAA, including contact information for  
the organisers, please visit:http://faa2012.ftw.at/contact.html







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