Call for Papers – CASA 2018 in Beijing, China
The 31th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2018) will be held on May 21-23, 2018 in Beijing, China. The conference is organized by State Key Laboratory of Computer Science (SKLCS), Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with ACM-SIGGRAPH, under guidance of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS).
COMMITTEE
Conference co-chairs
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland
and NTU, Singapore
Enhua Wu, ISCAS and University of Macau, China

Program co-chairs
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
Leonid Sigal, University of British Columbia, Canada
Wencheng Wang, ISCAS, China


Workshop chair
Hui Chen, ISCSA, China

Publicity chair
Hanqiu Sun, Chinese University of Hong Kong

SCOPE AND LIST OF TOPICS
CASA invites submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

Computer Animation
Motion Control
Motion Capture & Retargeting
Path Planning
Physics-based Animation
Vision-based Techniques
Behavioral Animation
Artificial Life
Deformation
Facial Animation
Image-based Animation
Multi-Scale Models
Knowledge-based Animation

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
Crowd Simulation
Machine learning

Other Related Topics
Animation Compression and Transmission
Semantics and Ontologies
Anthropometric Virtual Human Models
Acquisition and Reconstruction from Big Data
Cultural Heritage Applications
3D Physiological Humans
3D Telepresence
Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality
Social Robots
Deep Learning methods