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CALL FOR PAPERS
Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) Bournemouth, UK, 2020
http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk/

The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) will be held in September, 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 past few 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)
Submission: May 24, 2020
Notification of acceptance: June 21, 2020 Camera ready:  July 5, 2020

Submission for a Subsequent Issue of CAVW and Conference Proceeding
Submission:  June 21, 2020
Notification of acceptance:  July 12, 2020 Camera ready: July 26, 2020

Workshops and Tutorials proposal
Submission:  June 7, 2020
Notification of acceptance:  June 14, 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 24 May 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 21 June 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)


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