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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CASA 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Computer Animation and Social
Agents
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Preliminary Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Human Media Interaction (HMI) department of the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Twente</st1:PlaceName>
in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region> and the
Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 22nd Annual
Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2009) to be held on
June 17-19, <st1:metricconverter ProductID="2009 in" w:st="on">2009 in</st1:metricconverter>
"Het Trippenhuis", <st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City>, the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>CASA is the leading international conference in the field of
computer animation and social agents. CASA 2009 will provide great
opportunities to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and
educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the
world. In addition, make friends and experience wonderful <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City></st1:place>. The conference venue is located on
one of the famous canals of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amsterdam</st1:City></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We are seeking regular full papers, short papers, and
posters with the following topics, but which are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Animation Techniques : Motion Control, Motion Capture and
Retargeting, Path Planning, Physics based Animation, Image based Animation,
Behavioral Animation, Artificial Life, Deformation, Facial Animation,
Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models, Knowledge-based Animation, Motion
Synthesis;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>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, Gesture
Generation, Crowd Simulation;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Other Related Topics: Animation Compression and Transmission,
Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Humans/Environments, Animation Analysis
and Structuring, Anthropometric Virtual Human Models, Acquisition and
Reconstruction of Animation Data, Level of Details, Semantic Representation of
Motion and Animation, Medical Simulation, Cultural Heritage, Interaction for
Virtual Humans, Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Computer Games and
Online Virtual Worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>All accepted full papers, about 35 of them, will be
published, at the time of the conference, in a special issue of The Journal of
Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds by Wiley. Short papers and posters will
be published as CD or hardcopy proceedings with ISBN.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Important Dates are:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Full papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Submission: February 10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Camera ready: April 1, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Short papers and Posters<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Submission: March 15, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2009 <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> *Camera/CD ready: May 10, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Conference Chair: Anton Nijholt, anijholt@cs.utwente.nl <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Program Chairs: Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, <st1:PersonName
ProductID="Mark Overmars" w:st="on">Mark Overmars</st1:PersonName>, and Scott
King<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Local Chairs: <st1:PersonName ProductID="Arjan Egges" w:st="on">Arjan
Egges</st1:PersonName> and Herwin van Welbergen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=FR style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Webpage: </span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09"><span lang=FR>http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09</span></a><font
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