Conferences: CASA 2020 Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS (2nd Round)

Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) Bournemouth, UK, 2020 https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__casa2020.bournemouth.ac.uk&d=DwIEaQ&c=KXXihdR8fRNGFkKiMQzstu-8MbOxd1NuZkcSBymGmgo&r=tUaY13ULxViuxYlKW86ySw&m=GItZBva-tIDr2DF9Cf5Alh6aSHcynfgzq23lGgUrUco&s=0JR_sw-tMAmyFD1oOSsgcv6XbOtHHQXZ3y8R4FM5yC4&e=

 

The 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2020) will be held in September, 2020 in Bournemouth, UK. The conference is organized by Bournemouth University together with the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). CASA is the oldest international conference in computer animation and social agents in the world. It was founded in Geneva in 1988 under the name of Computer Animation (CA). In the past few years, CASA was held in Belgium (2007), Korea (2008), Netherlands (2009), France (2010), China (2011), Singapore (2012), Turkey (2013), United States (2014), Singapore (2015), Switzerland (2016), Korea (2017), China (2018) and France (2019).

CASA 2020 will provide a great opportunity to interact with leading experts, share your own work, and educate yourself through exposure to the research of your peers from around the world.

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Submission for a Subsequent Issue of CAVW and Conference Proceedings

Submission:  June 21, 2020

Notification of acceptance:  July 12, 2020 Camera ready: July 26, 2020

 

PAPER SUBMISSION

 

We invite submissions of research full papers, short papers, and posters on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to Computer Animation, Embodied Agents, Social Agents, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Visualization (see below for a detailed list).

 

Papers submitted by 21 June 2020 will be considered for publication in a subsequent issue of CAVW and conference proceeding. The papers accepted could be subject to minor or major revisions. Those with major revision will be invited to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC. All accepted papers will be published in subsequent issues of CAVW. The rest will be either accepted for publication in the conference proceeding or rejected. Authors will have to register and present the papers at the conference.

 

More details in terms of submission can be found in Paper Submission.

 

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

 

Conference Co-Chairs

Jian Jun Zhang (Bournemouth University, UK) Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

 

Program Co-Chairs

Daniel Thalmann (EPFL, Switzerland)

Xiaosong Yang (Bournemouth University, UK) Weiwei Xu (Zhejiang University, China)

 

Publicity Chair

Jian Chang (Bournemouth University, UK)

 

Local Chair

Feng Tian (Bournemouth University, UK)

 

Submit your paper to BDCC 2020 and get high-quality reviewers, fair recognition, faster publishing with EAI community review! Coimbatore, India (December 18-19, 2020)

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December 18 – 19, 2020 | Coimbatore, India
Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020

EAI is actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation to ensure the safety, comfort and quality of experience for attendees and a successful course of the event in 2020.

EAI BDCC is also welcoming submissions from authors who will be unable to attend the event in person due to restrictions caused by COVID-19. Accepted Authors will have the opportunity to present their paper online in an interactive virtual conference track
that will be live-streamed to the entire EAI Community.

In case the situation prevents the event from taking place in its original location, it will be held fully in an interactive,
live online setting. In both cases, all matters related to publication and indexing will remain unchanged.

Accepted Authors will be notified about the final decision regarding the conference format before the Camera-ready deadline.

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The BDCC 2020 conference focuses on big data paradigm is an interdisciplinary field bringing together computer science, mathematics, statistics and information theory to analyze data for interpretation and prediction. Big data research is characterized by voluminous and incremental datasets and complex data methods. The machine learning methods used in algorithm development are iterative and parallel. These methods can be scaled to handle big data using distributed and parallel computing technologies.

BDCC 2020 addresses the issues and challenges posed by several big data problems and give an overview of the state of the art and the future research opportunities.

We are pleased to invite you to submit your paper to BDCC 2020. Submissions should be in English, following the Springer formatting guidelines (see Submission). 

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Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

Additional publication opportunities:

    CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS

    BDCC 2020 will hold following international workshops, seeking high-quality original research papers:

    WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA IN INTELLIGENT AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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    WORKSHOP ON SMART SENSOR NETWORKS AND BIG DATA MANAGEMENT

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    Full Paper Submission Deadline: July 10, 2020

    Notification Deadline: August 14, 2020

    Camera-ready deadline: September 18, 2020 

    Conference dates: DECEMBER 18 – 19, 2020

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    Call for Chapters: Blockchain Security in Cloud Computing: Use cases, Challenges and Solutions | EAISICC book series (Scopus indexed)

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    Call for Chapters

    Book title:

    “Blockchain Security in Cloud Computing:
    Use cases, Challenges and Solutions
    “

    Submission Deadline for Chapter Proposals: July 15, 2020
    Submission Deadline for Full Chapter: October 15, 2020

    Publication Opportunities

    Chapters will be published in the EAISICC book series:
    EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing
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    Scope

    Topics include, but are not limited to:

    • Cloud Security
    • Block Chain
    • Block Chain Cloud Paradigm
    • Block Chain Security
    • Blockchain for Cloud
    • Block chain-based cloud data storage security
    • Clustering using Blockchain for cloud
    • Cloud Assisted Secure Health System using blockchain.
    • Next Generation AI&ML using Blockchain.
    • Cloud Key Management for Secure Connection
    • Computational Efficiency of Blockchain on cloud paradigm

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    Editors

    Dr. K.M Baalamurugan
    Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India

    Mr. Rakesh Kumar
    Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India

    Dr. Vishal Kumar
    SMIEEE, MACM, LMCSI, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bipin Tripathi Kumaon Institute of Technology, Dwarahat Almora, Uttarakhand, India

    Dr. Abhishek Kumar
    SMIEEE, Institute of Engineering & Technology, Chitkara University, Punjab, India.

    Prof. Dr. S. Kumar Padmanabhan
    SMIEEE, SMACM, Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Important dates

    Submission Deadline for Chapter Proposals: July 15, 2020

    Submission Deadline for Full Chapter: October 15, 2020


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    Invitation for the 2020 Summer e-School on Autonomous Systems, 17-21th August 2020, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece


    Dear Autonomous Systems (cars, drones) engineers, scientists, and enthusiasts,

     

    you are welcomed to register to the 2020 Summer e-School on Autonomous Systems having focus on autonomous drones, cars and marine vessels:

    http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/aiia-summer-school-on-autonomous-systems-2020/

    It will take place on 17-21/8/2020 and will be hosted by the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) Lab, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece.

     

    The summer e-school consists of two short e-courses:

    a) ‘Short e-course on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020’, 17-18th August 2020:

    http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/

    b) ‘Programming short e-course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems’, 19-21th August 2020:

    http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/

     

    You can follow the above-mentioned links for registration on either or both e-courses.

    For questions, please contact: Ioanna Koroni <koroniioanna@csd.auth.gr>

     

    The first e-course contains 16 live (and recorded) lectures providing an in-depth presentation of computer vision and deep learning problems algorithms with applications on autonomous drones, cars and marine vessels.

    The second programming short e-course and workshop offers a mix of live (and recorded) lectures and programming workshops (hands-on lab exercises) and aims at developing registrants’ programming skills for Deep Learning and Computer Vision, with focus on drone planning/control and imaging.

     

    Both short e-courses are organized by Prof. I. Pitas, IEEE and EURASIP fellow, He is AUTH prime investigation for H2020 project AerialCore, Coordinator of the European Horizon2020 R&D project Multidrone, Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information analysis Lab (AIIA Lab), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Chair of the IEEE SPS Autonomous Systems Initiative. He is ranked 249 top Computer Science and Electronics Scientist internationally by Guide2research (2018).

     

    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the biggest University in Greece and in SE Europe. It is highly ranked internationally.

     

    Relevant links:

    1. European Horizon2020 R&D projects Aerial-Core: https://aerial-core.eu/, Multidrone: https://multidrone.eu/, AI4Media: https://ai4media.eu/
    2. AIIA Lab: http://www.aiia.csd.auth.gr/
    3. Prof. I. Pitas: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=lWmGADwAAAAJ&hl=el

     

     

    Course descriptions

     

    a) ‘Short e-course on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems 2020’, 17-18th August 2020.

     

    http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/dl-and-cv-for-autonomous-cars-2020/

     

    Part A (8 hours), Computer vision topic list

    1. Introduction to autonomous systems imaging
    2. Introduction in computer vision
    3. Image acquisition, camera geometry
    4. Stereo and Multiview imaging
    5. Introduction to neural networks. Perceptron, backpropagation
    6. Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs
    7. Introduction to multiple drone imaging
    8. Drone mission planning and control

     

     

    Part B (8 hours) Deep learning topic list

    1. Localization and mapping
    2. Deep learning for object/target detection
    3. Object tracking and 3D target localization
    4. Parallel GPU and multicore CPU programming. GPU programming
    5. Fast convolution algorithms
    6. Drone cinematography
    7. Introduction to car vision
    8. Introduction to autonomous marine vehicles

     

     

    b)  ‘Programming short e-course and workshop on Deep Learning and Computer Vision for Autonomous Systems’, 19-21th August 2020.

     

    http://icarus.csd.auth.gr/autonomous-systems-2020/

     

    Part A (8 hours), Deep learning sample topic list

    1. Deep neural networks. Convolutional NNs
    2. Deep learning for target detection
    3. PyTorch basics
    4. Target detection with PyTorch
    5. Object oriented Tensorflow in Google Colab

     

    Part B (8 hours), Computer vision sample topic list

    1. 2D target tracking
    2. Parallel GPU and multi-core CPU architectures . GPU programming
    3. CUDA programming
    4. OpenCV programming for object tracking
    5. Drone mission simulations

     

     

    Part C (8 hours), Drone planning/control sample topic list

    1. Drone mission planning and control
    2. Drones with ROS and Gazebo simulations
    3.  

     

    Sincerely yours

    Prof. I. Pitas

     

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