EXTENDED DEADLINE February 4, 2013

CASA 2013 - Call For Papers
May 16-18, 2013, Istanbul, Turkey
www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~casa2013/

Bilkent University, Sabanci University, Microsoft Turkey and Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 26th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2013) to be held on May 16-18, 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.

CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents. It was founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of Computer Animation (CA). In the past six years, CASA was held in Switzerland (2006), Belgium (2007), Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012).

CASA 2013 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.

All accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal (indexed in SCI) published by Wiley.

We are seeking regular full papers, short papers, and posters with the following topics, but which are not limited to:

Animation Techniques:
Motion Control, Motion Capture and Retargeting, Path Planning, Physics-Based Animation, Vision based Techniques, Behavioral Animation, Artificial Life, Deformation, Facial Animation, Image-Based Animation, Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models, Knowledge-based Animation, etc.

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, etc.

Other Related Topics:
Animation Compression and Transmission, Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments, Animation Analysis and Structuring, Anthropometric Virtual Human Models, Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data, Level of Details,
Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation, Cultural Heritage, Interaction for Virtual Humans, 3D Physiological Humans, 3D Telepresence, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, etc.

Paper submission directives: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~casa2013/


IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Dates : May 16-18, 2013

Full Papers
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All accepted full papers will appear in the journal Wiley Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (indexed in SCI).

Submission : February 4, 2013

Notification of acceptance : February 26, 2013

Camera ready : March 15, 2013

Short Papers (4 pages) and Posters
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All short accepted papers will be selected for possible further submission to the journal CAVW.

Submission : March 28, 2013

Notification of acceptance : April 24, 2013

Camera/CD ready : April 29, 2013


ORGANIZATION

Conference Chairs: Mustafa Kasap, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
Program Chairs: Tolga Capin, Selim Balcisoy, Daniel Thalmann