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.

All accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal 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,
Image based Animation,
Behavioral Animation,
Artificial Life,
Deformation,
Facial Animation,
Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models,
Knowledge-based Animation,
Motion Synthesis
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,
Gesture Generation,
Crowd Simulation
Other Related :

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,
Medical Simulation,
Cultural Heritage,
Interaction for Virtual Humans,
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality,
Computer Games and Online Virtual Worlds.