International Conference on
Computer Animation and Social Agents
June 11th-13th, 2007
Expertise Centre for Digital Media
Hasselt University, Belgium
Call for Papers
General Information
The Expertise Centre for Digital Media (EDM) and the Computer Graphics Society (CGS) are pleased to announce the 20th annual conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA2007) to be held on June 11-13, 2007 in Hasselt, one of the most sociable cities of Belgium, also known as "the Capital of Taste".During three days, more than 150 professionals specialized in almost all fields of Computer Animation and Social Agents will analyze the state of the art of this topic and share their ideas, concepts and opinions.
Conference Topics
| Animation Techniques | Social Agents | Virtual Environment | Semantic for 3D and Computer Animation |
| - Motion control | - Social agents and avatars | - Medical 3D simulation | - Semantic Representation of Motion and Animation |
| - Motion capture and retargeting | - Emotions and personality | - Simulation involving Virtual Humans | - Multi-Resolution and Multi-Scale Models for CA & VR |
| - Path planning | - Simulation involving Virtual Humans | - Virtual Cultural Heritage | - Animation Compression and Transmission |
| - Physics-based animation | - Autonomous characters and actors | - Autonomous characters and actors | - Semantics and Ontologies for Virtual Environments |
| - Vision techniques in animation | - A.I. - based animation | - Virtual Collaborative Environments | - Animation Analysis and Structuring |
| - Behavioral animation | - Social and Conversational agents | - A.I. - based animation | - Motion and Animation Reconstruction from Images |
| - Artificial life | - Interagent communication | - Virtual reality | - Anthropometric Virtual Humans Models |
| - Image rendering in animation | - Modeling of groups and crowds | - Interaction with Virtual Humans | - Knowledge-based CA Techniques |
| - Deformable Models | - Social behavior | - Augmented Reality | - Acquisition and Reconstruction of Animation Data |
| - Facial Animation | - Autonomous Virtual Humans in games | - Perceptual models | - Level of Details for CA |
| - Virtual humans and avatars | - Virtual Sensors |
Important Dates
| April 1, 2007 | Paper submission due |
| May 1, 2007 | Notification to authors |
| May 15, 2007 | Camera ready papers |
| June 11, 2007 | Start of conference |
Submission Guidelines
Each paper for submission should be formatted according to the guidelines given on the conference web site. Please visit the conference web site for more information:The 35 best ranked papers will be published as Journal Papers in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds journal published by John Wiley. Other accepted papers will appear as conference proceedings with ISBN number.


