Call for submissions for Computer Animation and Social Agents 2006 / deadline : April 10th 2006

Call for submissions for Computer Animation and Social Agents 2006, Geneva, 5-7 July 2006, deadline for paper submission: April 10th 2006.

The computer Graphics Society (CGS) is pleased to announce
the COMPUTER ANIMATION and SOCIAL AGENTS 2006 Conference
http://casa2006.miralab.unige.ch/

MIRALab will organize this 19th annual conference on Computer
Animation and Social Agents (CASA2006) with the support of the
Computer Graphics Society (CGS). The Conference will be held
at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 5th - 7th July 2006.

The conference tracks include:

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

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

Virtual Environnement
:: 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
:: Perceptual models
:: Virtual Sensors

IMPORTANT DATES OF CASA2006:
1) Call for papers : April 10th 2006
2) Notification to authors : May 2nd 2006
3) Camera ready accepted papers to Wiley : May 12th 2006
4) Conference venue : 5th-7th July 2006 at the
University of Geneva (Uni Dufour)

Original unpublished papers of up to 12 pages (single-spaced,
12 point, 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). Submission
will be online and there will be instructions on the web.

ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE PUBLISHED AS A JOURNAL PAPER
IN THE COMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS JOURNAL PUBLISHED
BY JOHN WILEY.

Conference Chair
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
University of Geneva
Switzerland
thalmann@miralab.unige.ch

All queries can be sent to:
The CASA2006 Local Committee
Email: casa2006@miralab.unige.ch
Fax: +41 22 379 7780