The University of Houston and Computer Graphics Society are pleased to announce the 27th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2014) to be held on May 26-28, 2014 at the University of Houston Hilton Hotel, Houston, Texas, USA.

CASA was founded in 1988 in Geneva, Switzerland and it is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. We seek research full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

Computer Animation

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
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
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

The best 30 accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal by Wiley.

Conference Co-chairs

Zhigang Deng (University of Houston, USA)
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Program Co-chairs

Daniel Thalmann (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
John P. Lewis (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Pierre Poulin (University of Montreal, Canada)