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>C O M P U T E R A N I M A T I O N
>and
>SOCIAL AGENTS 2003
>
>THE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 
>ON COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 
>(CASA2003)
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS AND TUTORIALS 
>CASA2003 at Rutgers University: May 7-9, 2003
>http://www.cbim.rutgers.edu/conferences/casa2003
>
>The COMPUTER GRAPHICS SOCIETY (CGS) is pleased to announce the COMPUTER 
ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 2003 Conference to be held at Rutgers University, 
New-Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. This 16th annual conference on Computer 
Animation and Social Agents will be organized at Rutgers University with the 
support of IEEE, ACM Siggraph, DIMACS and IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics and 
Virtual Worlds). 
>
>The topics of interest in CASA2003 include but are not limited to:
>· Motion control· Social and Conversational agents 
>· Motion capture and retargeting· Perceptual models 
>· Path planning· Interagent communication 
>· Physics-based animation· Virtual Sensors 
>· Vision techniques in animation· Modelling of groups and crowds 
>· Behavioral animation· Social behavior 
>· Artificial life· Autonomous Virtual Humans in games 
>· Virtual humans and avatars· Emotions and personality 
>· Image rendering in animation· Medical 3D simulation 
>· Simulation involving Virtual Humans· Virtual Cultural Heritage  
>· Autonomous characters and actors · VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments) 
>· A.I. - based animation· Virtual reality 
>· Interaction with Virtual Humans· Augmented Reality 
>· Deformable Models· Facial Animation 
>
>Conference Co-Chairs
>
>· Norman Badler
>University of Pennsylvania, USA
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>
>· Daniel Thalmann
>EPFL, Switzerland
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>Program Co-Chairs
>· Dimitris Metaxas
>Rutgers University,
>USA
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>
>· Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
>University of Geneva, 
>Switzerland
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>
>· Hyeong-Seok Ko 
>Seoul National University,
>Korea
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>Paper Submission Procedures
>· Submissions will be made electronically, in PDF format only (no paper copy 
will be accepted).
>· All accepted papers will appear in a proceedings book published by IEEE 
Computer Society Press.
>
>Paper Format
>· Original unpublished papers of up to 12 pages (single-spaced, 12 points, 
including figures, tables and references) are invited.
>· Manuscripts must be written in English.
>· The first part of the paper should include a title, an abstract, keywords, 
and author's information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax 
numbers, e-mail address). The submission will be online and there will be 
instructions on the web
>· Any animation sequences should be made available as a URL in your paper.
>
>Tutorials Submission Procedures
>Proposals for tutorial on topics such as Medical Applications, Special Effects, 
Vision for Graphics, Procedural and Physics-based Animation and Conversational 
Agents are invited. Proposals must contain a description with a detailed course 
outline, course objectives, target audience and prerequisites, course length, 
brief presenters' biographical sketches, tutorial material/handouts and 
audio-visual or technical requirements.
>
>Important Dates in 2003
>· November 30 Paper Submission Deadline
>· February 5 Papers Notification of Acceptance
>· February 28 Tutorial Submission Deadline
>· March 1 Camera Ready Papers Due
>· March 15 Tutorials Notification of Acceptance
>· May 7 Start of Computer Animation and Social Agents 2003
>
>Important Links
>· Registration Sign up to attend CASA 2003
>· Directions Instructions for getting to the Conference
>· Hotels List of local accommodations
>
>Send Queries to
>Secretariat CASA2003 
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Fax: +732 445 2914
>Web: http://www.cbim.rutgers.edu/conferences/casa2003
>
>International Program Committee
>N. Adabala, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
>E. Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany 
>N. Badler, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
>D. Ballin, BT, UK 
>R. Boulic, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 
>M.-P. Cani, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (INPG), France 
>T. Capin, NOKIA, USA 
>A. de Antonio, University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain 
>D. DeCarlo, Rutgers University, USA 
>H. Delingette, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique 
(INRIA), France 
>J. Duncan, Yale University, USA 
>D. Ebert, Purdue Univ., USA 
>I. Essa, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
>P. Faloutsos, UCLA, USA 
>R. Fedkiw, Stanford, USA 
>G. Fei, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
>N. Foster, PDI, USA 
>J. Gratch, USC, USA J. Hodgins, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
>C. Imielinska, Columbia University, USA 
>H. Ip, City University of Hong Kong, China 
>I. Kakadiaris, University of Houston, USA 
>A. Kaufman, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA 
>P. Kalra, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT-Delhi), INDIA 
>H. Ko, Seoul National University, South Korea 
>T. L. Kunii, Hosei University and Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan 
>S. Y. Lee, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea 
>J. Lester, North Carolina State University, USA 
>M. Lin, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA 
>N. Lobo, UCF, USA B. Loftin, Old Dominion University, USA 
>N. Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
>D. Manocha, University of North Carolina (UNC), USA 
>D. Metaxas, Rutgers University, USA 
>L. Moccozet, University of Geneva, Switzerland 
>B. Mones, University of Washington, USA 
>A. Nasri, American University of Beirut, Lebanon 
>H. Noser, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
>J. F. O'Brien, University of California, Berkeley, USA 
>C. O'Sullivan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 
>D. Pai, Rutgers University, New-Brunswick, USA 
>M. van de Panne, University of British Columbia, Canada 
>R. Parent, Ohio State University, USA 
>F. Parke, Texas A&M University, USA 
>N. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA 
>C. Pelachaud, U. Paris VII, France 
>N. Pollard, Brown University, USA 
>L. Porcher Nedel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 
>H. Pottmann, Technische Universitdt Wien, Austria 
>H. Qin, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA 
>S. Raupp Musse, University do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Brazil 
>J. Rickel, University of Southern California, USA 
>T. Rist, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany 
>L. Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, USA 
>J. Rossignac, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
>D. Samaras, SUNY Stony Brook, USA 
>H. P. Seidel, Max-Planck-Institut f|r Informatik, Germany 
>M. Shah, UCF, USA 
>D. Silver, Rutgers University, USA 
>S. Y. Shin, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South 
Korea 
>J. Stam, Alias Wavefront, USA Y. Suenaga, Nagoya University, Japan 
>H. C. Sun, Rutgers University, USA 
>G. Szekely, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland 
>D. Terzopoulos, New York University, USA 
>D. Thalmann, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 
>R. Trappl, Austrian Research Institute for AI, Austria 
>L. Velho, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil 
>F. Vexo, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland 
>Y. Wu, TeraRecon Inc., USA 
>
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