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Geneva-Switzerland: = July 7-9, 2004

April 9, = 2004: =20 Paper = Submission=20 Deadline

May 7, = 2004: = ; =20 Papers Notification

May 17, = 2004:=20 = = Camera=20 Ready Papers to the Publisher

July 7-9, = 2004:=20 Start of=20 CASA2004

The COMPUTER GRAPHICS = SOCIETY (CGS) is=20 pleased to announce the 17th annual conference on Computer = Animation and=20 Social Agents (CASA2004), held at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, = July 7-9,=20 organized by MIRALab with the support of IFIP WG5.10 (Computer Graphics = and=20 Virtual Worlds).

http://casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/

The topics of interest in = Computer=20 Animation and Social Agents 2004

Animation=20 Techniques

Motion=20 Control

Motion capture and=20 retargeting
Path = planning
Physics-based=20 animation
Vision techniques=20 in animation
Behavioral=20 animation
Artificial=20 life
Image = rendering=20 in animation
Deformable=20 Models
Facial=20 Animation

Social=20 agents

Social agents and=20 avatars
Emotions and=20 personality
Simulation=20 involving Virtual Humans
Autonomous=20 characters and actors
A.I. = - based=20 animation
Social and=20 Conversational agents
Interagent=20 communication
Modeling of groups=20 and crowds
Social=20 behavior
Autonomous Virtual=20 Humans in games

Virtual=20 Environments

Medical 3D=20 simulation
Simulation=20 involving Virtual Humans
Virtual Cultural=20 Heritage
Autonomous=20 characters and actors
VCE = (Virtual=20 Collaborative Environments)
A.I. = - based=20 animation
Virtual=20 reality
Interaction with=20 Virtual Humans
Augmented=20 Reality
Perceptual=20 models
Virtual=20 Sensors

Important = Dates

April 9, = 2004: =20 Paper = Submission=20 Deadline

May 7, = 2004: = ; =20 Papers Notification

May 17, = 2004:=20 = Camera=20 Ready Papers to the Publisher

July 7-9, = 2004:=20 Start of=20 CASA2004

Conference = Co-Chairs

Nadia=20 Magnenat-Thalmann
University of=20 Geneva,
Switzerland
thalmann@miralab.unige.ch=20

Sung Yong=20 Shin
Korea = Advanced=20 Institute of=20 Science=20

Technology, = Republic of = Korea
syshin@jupiter.kaist.ac.kr

Program = Co-Chairs

> Animation=20 techniques

John A.Vince
Bournemouth=20 University,
Dorset,=20 UK
jvince@bournemouth.ac.uk=20

> Social=20 agents

Catherine P=E9lachaud
IUT de Montreuil-
Universit=E9 de Paris = 8,=20 France
c.pelachaud@iut.univ-paris8.fr=20

> Virtual=20 environments

Daniel Thalmann
EPFL, Switzerland
daniel.thalmann@epfl.ch

Paper Submission=20 Procedures

Submissions are made = electronically,=20 in PDF format only (no paper copy will be accepted) at=20 casa2004.miralab.unige.ch/submit.html. All accepted papers will appear = in a=20 special issue of the Journal of Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds = (formally=20 JVCA) published by John Wiley.

Paper = Format

Original unpublished = papers of up to=20 12 pages (single-spaced, 12 point, including figures, tables and = references) are=20 invited. Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the = paper=20 should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author's information = (name,=20 title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address).=20 Submission will be online and there will be instructions on the web=20 Any = animation=20 sequences should be uploaded as an archive .zip file with your=20 manuscript.

Send Queries = to

Secretariat=20 CASA2004
Email: casa2004@miralab.unige.ch
Fax: +41 22 7057780
Website: casa2004.miralab.unige.ch<= /SPAN>