CALL FOR PAPERS



Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020), Bournemouth, UK, July 1-3, 2020



http://casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk

The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020), that will be held on July 1-3, 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 last past ten 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) published by Wiley
Submission: March 16, 2020
Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2020
Camera ready: May 4, 2020

Submission for a Subsequent Issue of CAVW and Conference Proceeding
Submission: April 20, 2020
Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2020
Camera ready: May 25, 2020

Workshops and Tutorials proposal

Submission: April 13th, 2020

Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 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 16th March 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 20th April 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)