Conferences: CASA 2024 Call for Papers

December 5th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

CASA 2024    Call for Papers

The 37th International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2024) will be held on June 5-7, 2024, in Wuhan, China. The conference is organized by the Wuhan Textile University (WTU), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems/National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is supported by 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) by the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). In the past few years, CASA was held in Europe (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Switzerland, UK, etc.), Asia (Korea, China, Singapore) and the United States. CASA 2024 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 Special Issue of Computer Animation and Virtual World (CAVW)

  • Submission: February 8, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2024
  • Camera ready:  April 30, 2024 (23:59 GMT)
  • Author Registration: May 8, 2024

Posters and Demos

  • Submission: March 8, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance:  March 20, 2024

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).

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee and papers of high quality will be referred for publication in the Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds (CAVW) journal published by Wiley, Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware(VRIH), Visual Computing for Industry, Biomedicine, and Art(VCIBA), Journal of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The papers accepted as is or with minor revision will be in a special issue. Those with major revision will be given a chance to resubmit and reviewed again by the conference PC for acceptance in a subsequent issue of CAVW. The rest will be either rejected or recommended for publication in conference proceeding. 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

Animation Compression & Transmission

Machine Learning for Animation

AI-based Modeling and Animation

Game-Based Learning

 

 

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

Social Robot

 

 

Other Related Topics (in VA/AR)

Deep Learning methods

Artificial Agents in Virtual Reality

Mixed and Augmented Reality

Population Generation for Virtual Worlds

Virtual Cities

Virtual humans and avatars

Anthropometric Virtual Human Models

Digital clones

VR health applications

Shared Virtual Environments

Semantics & Ontologies for Animation in VR

Anthropometric Virtual Human Models

Acquisition & Reconstruction from Big Data

Cultural Heritage Applications

3D Physiological Humans

3D Telepresence

Haptics

 

General Conference Co-Chairs

Prof. Weilin Xu (President, Wuhan Textile University; Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering)

Prof. Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Prof. Enhua Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Macau)

Program Co-Chairs

Prof. Daniel Thalmann (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | EPFL, Switzerland)

Prof. Xinrong Hu(Dean, College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan Textile University)

Prof. Sheng Li (Peking University)

Prof. Bin Sheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Prof. Weiliang Meng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Publicity Co-Chairs

Ping Li(The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

Local Organization Co-Chairs

Ruhan He (Wuhan Textile University)

Tao Peng (Wuhan Textile University)

Jin Huang (Wuhan Textile University)

Publication Co-Chairs

Jian Zhu (Guangdong University of Technology)

Xiao Lin (Shanghai Normal University)

Workshop Co-Chairs

Guangzheng Fei (Communication University of China, China)

Ye Pan (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Postgraduate Student Forum Chair

Ran Yi (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Youquan Liu (Chang ’an University)

 

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AIiH 2024 Call for Special Session Proposals (International Conference on AI in Healthcare, Swansea UK)

December 5th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
We are delighted to invite proposals for special sessions at the first International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AIiH 2024), which will be held in Swansea from 4 September to 6 September 2024. A special session is designed to delve into a specific research theme or showcase innovative applications. Each special session will feature a minimum of five presentations. For topics of interest, please see the conference website (https://aiih.cc).

Special session chairs will receive one free full registration. For a special session with more than five accepted papers, the organisers may invite one invited speaker, whose registration to the conference will also be free. Papers submitted to special sessions are reviewed in the same way as submissions to the conference's main sessions. Author guidance and paper submission details can be found here (https://aiih.cc/paper-submission). Presenting speakers are required to register at the conference. Special session papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

Procedure for Submitting Special Session Proposals

Each proposal should include:

1. Session title. The title will be published in the conference programme.
2. Abstract (250 words). The abstract will be published in the conference program.
3. Name and affiliation of the special session organisers.
4. Name and affiliation of invited speakers who will contribute to the special session. Please note that the invited speakers will need to submit their papers (https://aiih.cc/paper-submission). Papers submitted for special sessions undergo the same review process as open submissions and will be included in the conference proceeding.
5. You can propose an open special session, which allows other delegates to submit their papers to the proposed session.

Please email your proposal to contact@AIiH.cc by the deadline of January 26th, 2024.

The conference committee will assess special session proposals based on the quality of the proposal and the broad appeal of the topic.

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ARC 2024 – 2nd Call for Papers

December 5th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise
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The 20th International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2024)
           March 20 – 22, 2024, Aveiro, Portugal (https://arc2024.av.it.pt/)
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                                  CALL FOR PAPERS

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                               Symposium information
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Applied Reconfigurable Computing focuses on the use of reconfigurable hardware,
such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), to accelerate and optimize
various computational tasks and applications. It involves designing and
implementing hardware configurations that can be dynamically adapted to
specific
workloads, improving performance and efficiency in a wide range of
applications.
The 20th edition of the symposium aims to bring together researchers and
practitioners of reconfigurable computing with an emphasis on practical
applications of this technology.

The ARC?2024 proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer?s Lecture
Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and will also be available through the
SpringerLink online service.

Selected papers will be invited to be submitted for consideration in a special
issue at a publishing venue to be announced shortly (please check the symposium
website).

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                              Submission Information
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Authors are invited to submit original contributions in English including, but
not limited to, the areas of interest mentioned below. Submission must be up-
loaded to EasyChair at (https://easychair.org) identifying the ARC 2024
conference and the submission format of the contribution as either

– Long Papers:  (12 pages maximum) should include mainly accomplished results
                  (oral presentation).

– Short Papers: (6 pages maximum) to be composed of work in progress or
                  reporting recent developments (poster presentation).

The format of the paper should be according to the Springer-Verlag LNCS Series
format rules (see:http://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html).

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                                 Important Dates
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Submission deadline:                  11 December 2023
Decision Notification:                10 January  2024
Author Registration:                  30 January  2024
Camera-Ready Paper Submission:        07 February 2024

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                                Topics of Interest
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Papers in English in all areas of applied reconfigurable computing are invited,
with particular emphasis on:

? Design Methods & Tools
    High-level languages & compilation
    Simulation & synthesis
    Design space exploration

? Applications
    Security & cryptography
    Embedded computing & DSP
    Robotics, space, bioinformatics
    Deep learning & neural networks

? Architectures
    Computation in/near memory
    Self-adaptive, evolvable PSoCs & adaptive SoCs
    Low-power designs
    Approximate computing
    Fine-/coarse-/mixed-grained
    Interconnect (NoCs, …)
    Resilient & fault tolerant

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Organizing Committee
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General Chairs:    Pedro C. Diniz         (Univ. of Porto, Portugal)
Program Chairs:
                     Iouliia Skliarova      (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
                     Piedad Brox Jim?nez    (Microelectronics Inst. of
Seville, Spain)
Proceedings Chair: M?rio V?stias          (ISEL, Lisboa, Portugal)

Local Chair:       Arnaldo Oliveira       (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Special Issue Chair: Christian Hochberger (TU Darmstadt, Germany)

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Call for Participation – REACT 2024 Challenge: Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions (REACT2024)

December 5th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 

REACT 2024 Challenge: Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions (REACT2024 at FG’24)

 

The second “Multiple Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation in Dyadic Interactions” challenge (REACT2024) to be held in conjunction with the Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2024 in Istanbul, Turkey, is calling for contributions in the form of papers and competition in the challenge. The competition will be using the NoXI, and RECOLA datasets which contain audio-video clip data of participants engaged in dyadic video-conference settings. The challenge consists of two main tasks:

  • Task 1 – Offline Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation
  • Task 2 – Online Appropriate Facial Reaction Generation

Participants are invited to participate in one or both sub-challenges. For more information about the challenge, check our website https://sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/react2024/home. 

To register and access the challenge data, please fill the registration form you will find on the website and feel free to contact us by email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com . 

For each task, training and validation data will be made available to participants. At the end of the competition, participants will be required to submit their trained models (in the form of working code) via email. All submissions will be evaluated on a held-out test dataset to ensure a fair comparison. Participants will also be encouraged to submit a conference-style paper describing their proposed approach for tackling the challenge task(s) as well as the results obtained. 

Challenge timeline is as follows:

  • Launching Challenge website and call for participation poster: November 2, 2023
  • Registration open: November 5, 2023
  • Training and validation sets released: November 14, 2023
  • Baseline paper and code released: December 31, 2023
  • Final result and model submission: March 15, 2024
  • Paper submission deadline: March 29, 2024
  • Paper acceptance notification: April 5, 2024
  • Camera ready paper submission deadline: April 15, 2024

The Organisers

§ Dr Siyang Song*, University of Leicester & University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

§ Dr Micol Spitale*, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

§ Cheng Luo,  Monash University, Australia

§ Cristina Palmero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ German Barquero, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ Prof Sergio Escalera, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

§ Prof Michel Valstar, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

§ Dr Tobias Baur, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

§ Dr Fabien Ringeval, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

§ Prof Elisabeth Andrè, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

§ Prof Hatice Gunes, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Contact us via email: reactmultimodalchallenge@gmail.com

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Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction

December 5th, 2023 Daniela Lopez de Luise

REGISTRATION OPEN + CALL FOR RAPID REVIEW PAPERS

  • What: International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI)

  • When: March 9–10, 2024

  • Where: Boulder, Colorado, USA

  • Web: https://tahri.org


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Announcements:

  • Want to give a second chance to a previously reviewed paper? Revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper! Submissions are limited, so pre-register your paper today! https://tahri.org/authors

  • Want to attend TAHRI? Our registration site is now open, and discounts are available for students and 2024 HRI conference attendees! https://tahri.org/attendees

  • Want to sponsor TAHRI? Review our partnership opportunities, including discounts for supported organizations and 2024 HRI conference sponsors! https://tahri.org/partners

  • Thanks to authors who submitted standard review papers! We look forward to reviewing your contributions!

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Dear colleagues,

The registration site is now open for the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction (TAHRI)! Thanks to authors who submitted standard review papers! If you want to give a second chance to a paper previously reviewed at another venue, we invite you to revise and resubmit it as a TAHRI rapid review paper! Submissions are limited, so pre-register your paper today! https://www.tahri.org/authors

Overview: TAHRI aims to be the premiere symposium for HRI research focused on the advancement of the underlying technology enabling the interaction between a robot and a human. The inaugural event will be held on March 9–10, 2024, in Boulder, Colorado, USA, two days before and co-located with the 2024 HRI conference!

Theme: The theme for the inaugural TAHRI is “Building Bridges Between Builders”, gathering HRI researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, and other research groups who are focused on the development of HRI technologies.

Topics: TAHRI seeks technological HRI contributions from a broad range of perspectives, including, but not limited to, robots, platforms, hardware, software, sensors, actuators, perception, control, algorithms, models, mechanisms, methods, interfaces, architectures, frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, tools, techniques, or other technologies that, with reasonable effort, can be incorporated into the design, development, or deployment of an HRI system.

Papers: TAHRI is an inclusive, community-focused venue that invites novel, high-quality technological HRI papers that will be peer-reviewed in a flexible process, presented live at the symposium, and indexed in archived ACM proceedings.

  • [CLOSED] Standard review papers are for technological HRI work intended to go through a full peer-review process (including internal and external reviewers).

  • Rapid review papers are for technological HRI work that has been previously reviewed but was either not indexed or not published, that has been revised based on previous reviewer feedback, and for which a summary of reviews, rebuttals, and revisions can also be submitted. These papers are part of a new rolling review process (from Nov. 6th, 2023, to Jan. 19th, 2024), with a fast turnaround notification (~3 weeks) and a limited number of submissions! See the website for important details.

  • Short papers are for recent, ongoing, or otherwise promising technological HRI work with preliminary results or details of accessible artifacts that are relevant to the HRI research community and show potential to promote discussions at TAHRI. These papers will not be indexed in archived proceedings.

Important Dates:

  • Nov. 6, 2023: Paper submission site opens

  • ~3 weeks after submission: Rapid review paper notification

  • Dec. 1, 2023: Standard review paper deadline / Registration site opens

  • Jan. 19, 2024: Standard review paper notification / Rapid review paper deadline / Short paper deadline

  • Feb. 2, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit deadline

  • Feb. 9, 2024: Revise-and-resubmit notification / Short paper notification

Connect: For more information or to stay up-to-date on TAHRI, please visit the website (https://tahri.org), email us (info@tahri.org), or follow us on social media:

Organizers

  • Ross Mead (Semio)

  • Shelly Bagchi (NIST)

  • Jason R. Wilson (Franklin & Marshall College)

  • Emmanuel Senft (Idiap Research Institute)

  • Reuth Mirsky (Bar-Ilan University)

  • Daniel Hernández García (Heriot-Watt University)

  • Jeremy Marvel (NIST)

  • Megan Zimmerman (NIST)

  • Justin Hart (University of Texas Austin)

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