The 29th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2016) will be held at University of Geneva, in the beautiful Biotech Campus on May 23-25, 2016. http://casa2016.miralab.ch/


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 last past ten years, CASA was held in Hong Kong (2005), Switzerland (2006), Belgium (2007), Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012), Turkey (2013), United States (2014) and Singapore (2015).

We seek research full papers and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:


Computer Animation
* 2D and 3D animation systems
* Inverse kinematics
* Biomechanics models
* Motion capture and motion retargeting
* Physical-based animation
* Facial and body animation
* Path planning
* Cloth and hair animation
* LOD and impostors
* Real-time rendering

Embodied Agents
* Perceptual models
* Avatars and Autonomous Virtual Humans
* Interagent communication
* Groups and Crowd Simulation
* Social and Conversational agents
* Interaction with Virtual Humans
* Intelligent virtual actors
* Memory and behaviour models
* Emotions and personality
* Simulation involving Virtual Humans
* Autonomous Virtual Humans in game
Virtual and Augmented Reality
* Tracking
* Gesture and action recognition
* Augmented and Mixed Reality
* 3D TelePresence
* Mobile VR and AR systems
* Haptic interfaces
* Audiospace
* Immersive simulators (flight, car drive etc…)
* Virtual Rehabilitation
* Virtual surgery

Virtual Life
* Plant development and growing
* Artificial animals and animats
* Population generation
* Virtual cities
* Persistent worlds

Visualization
* Medical imaging and reconstruction
* Molecular graphics
* Fluid visualization
* Visualization of physical phenomena

26 accepted full papers will be published in a special issue of the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds Journal published by Wiley (CAVW). Other accepted papers will be published in proceedings.

Important Dates

Full Papers (10 pages):
Submission: 6 February 2016
Notification of acceptance: 4 March 2016
Camera ready: 20 March 2016

Posters:
Submission: 27 March 2016
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2016
Camera ready: 18 April 2016

Conference Chairs
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland and NTU, Singapore
Marina Gavrilova, University of Calgary, Singapore

Program Chairs
Taku Komura, Edingburgh University, UK
Frederic Cordier, University of Haute-Alsace, France
Daniel Thalmann, NTU, Singapore

For more information, contact: casa2016@miralab.ch