<http://movesinstitute.org> "Your source for computer graphics & virtual environment event announcements since 1994" nfoBahn News 23 February 2002 ACM Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '02) > July 21-22, 2002, San Antonio, Texas (co-located with SIGGRAPH) > http://sca2002.cs.brown.edu/ <http://sca2002.cs.brown.edu/> The goal of SCA > '02 is to provide an opportunity for researchers in computer animation to > interact with one another, share new results, and discuss emerging directions > for the field. The symposium will be co-located with SIGGRAPH, held on the > Sunday and Monday before the main conference to encourage a broad range of > participants. A full proceedings will be published at the time of the > Symposium. We hope that SCA will grow to become the preeminent forum for > dissemination of the latest research results in computer animation. Topics > include, but are not limited to: > - autonomous characters > - physically based animation > - facial animation > - real-time animation, animation for games > - group and crowd behavior > - expressive motion / communication > - nonphotorealistic animation > - physical realism / measuring the real world for animation > - nature in motion (natural phenomena, plants, clouds...) > - planning / learning / optimization for animation > - intuitive interfaces for creating and editing animations > - sound and speech for animation > - perceptual metrics for animation > - mathematical foundations of animation > - new time-based art forms on the computer Important dates > Firm deadline for submissions -- March 25, 2002 > Notification to authors -- May 2, 2002 > Deadline for camera ready copy -- May 16, 2002 Papers (in Adobe PDF format) > must be submitted electronically through the SCA web site to be considered for > review. (For instructions, see http://sca2002.cs.brown.edu/) Supplementary > material such as videos may also be submitted electronically and will be made > available to reviewers. If you prefer to mail videotapes rather than uploading > movies to the web site, please send 6 copies in NTSC VHS format to: >> Symposium on Computer Animation >> c/o Nancy Pollard >> Robotics Institute >> Newell Simon Hall, 4207 >> Carnegie Mellon University >> 5000 Forbes Avenue >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 > Format guidelines are the same as those for SIGGRAPH technical papers: > http://www.siggraph.org/publications/prep/ Please prepare your papers for > anonymous review. Papers should be submitted to SCA exclusively. Proceedings > will be published by ACM Press. Authors of accepted papers will be required to > sign the ACM copyright form, which will be made accessible from the SCA web > site. Conference Chairs > Jessica Hodgins > Carnegie Mellon University > [log in to unmask] > > Michiel van de Panne > University of British Columbia > [log in to unmask] Program Chairs > Michael Cohen > Microsoft Research > [log in to unmask] > > Nancy Pollard > Brown University > [log in to unmask] IEEE Visualization 2002 > October 27 - November 1, 2002, The Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, > Massachusetts http://vis.computer.org/vis2002 > <http://vis.computer.org/vis2002> Papers are due 29 March 2002. IEEE VR 2002 > Conference Dates: 24 - 28 March, 2002 in Orlando, Florida > http://www.vr2002.org/ <http://www.vr2002.org/> Shape-Based Search Engine > There is a new shape-based search engine at http://shape.cs.princeton.edu > It allows you to type keywords, draw sketches, and/or submit 3D models in > order to retrieve similar objects from a database of over 20,000 free VRML > models. Check it out! Winners of Scientific Oscars Named > While the rest of the industry is out there campaigning for nominations, the > Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Monday announced the winners of > 21 Academy Awards for scientific, engineering and technical achievements. They > include Pete Romano for the design and development of an underwater camera > housing system, Tomlinson Holman for improvements in motion picture > loudspeaker systems and Lance Williams for his "pioneering influence in the > field of computer-generated animation and effects." The awards will be handed > out in a dinner ceremony at the Regent Beverly Wilshire on March 2. The awards > cover developments of "exceptional merit" in such areas as camera lenses, > camera cranes, camera motors, digital film recorders and color film > restoration. New VR Text > Kay. M Stanney "Handbook of Virtual Environments : Design, Implementation, > and Applications, > <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080583270X/michaelzyda> " Lawrence > Erlbaum Publishers, February 2002. MOVES Institute Publications > John Hiles, Michael VanPutte, Brian Osborn, Michael J. Zyda, "Innovations in > Computer Generated Autonomy > <http://movesinstitute.org/Publications/NPS-MV-02-002.pdf> , " December 2001, > NPS-MV-02-002. Robert B. McGhee, Eric R. Bachmann, Xiaoping Yun, Michael J. > Zyda, "An Investigation of Alternative Algorithms for Singularity-free > Estimation of Rigid Body Orientation from Earth Gravity and Magnetic Field > Measurements <http://movesinstitute.org/Publications/NPS-MV-02-001.pdf> , " > October 2001, NPS-MV-02-001. Michael Zyda "Introducing the MOVES Institute > <http://movesinstitute.org/Publications/MOVESbrochure.pdf> ". The latest > brochure on projects in the MOVES Institute. 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