COMPUTER ANIMATION '98 CONFERENCE

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tentative dates: JUNE 8-10, 1998

The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and the IEEE Computer Society are
pleased to announce the organization of COMPUTER ANIMATION '98 in
Philadelphia.  This 11th conference on Computer Animation is organize=
d by the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS) at the
Universi= ty of Pennsylvania - USA.

                         Call for Papers

Contributions are solicited describing original research results and
application papers in the  following areas of computer animation:

 Motion control                               . Animation for scienti=
fic
                                                 visualization
 Keyframe techniques                          . Animation in engineer=
ing
 Motion Capture                               . Motion blur and tempo=
ral
                                                 antialiasing
 Path planning                                . A.I.-based animation
 Physics-based animation                      . Robotics and animatio=
n
 Virtual humans and avatars                   . Virtual reality
 Image rendering in animation                 . Autonomous characters=
 and actors
 Animation languages and systems              . Sound and speech sync=
hronization
 Behavioral animation                         . Vision techniques in =
animation
 Artificial Life                              . Special hardware for =
animation
 VCE (Virtual Collaborative Environments)     . Medical applications
 Real-time simulation, animation and
  visualization


INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:

Four copies of full papers in English should be sent to the Program
Co-Chair Dimitris Metaxas by February 3, 1998. Authors will be notifi=
ed by March 15, 1998.  Camera-ready papers are due by April 15, 1998.
Al= l accepted papers will appear in a book published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.

Original unpublished papers of up to 20 pages (single-spaced, 12
points, including figures, tables and references) are invited.
Manuscripts must be written in English. The first part of the paper
should include a title, an abstract, keywords, and author's
information (name, title, affiliation, address, phone and fax numbers=
, e-mail address).

All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program
Committee members and by external reviewers.


IMPORTANT DATES

    PAPERS DUE : February 3, 1998.
    NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE WITH REVIEWS: March 15, 1998.
    CAMERA READY PAPERS DUE: April 15, 1998.
    CONFERENCE: June 8-10, 1998.


SEND SUBMISSIONS AND QUERIES TO:

Dimitris Metaxas
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
USA.

Tel: 215 898 0945  Fax: 215 898 0587
Email: dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu


CONFERENCE COCHAIRS: Norman Badler (USA), Daniel Thalmann (Switzerlan=
d)

PROGRAM COCHAIRS: Dimitris Metaxas (USA), Nadia Magnenat Thalmann (Sw=
itzerland)

TENTATIVE PC MEMBERS for CA'98:

N. Ayache (France)
N. Badler (USA)
A. Barr (USA)
A. Bruderlin (USA)
I. Carlbom (USA)
T-S. Chua (Singapore)
M. Cohen (USA)
J. Duncan (USA)
D. Ebert (USA)
I. Essa (USA)
E. Fiume (CANADA)
H. Fuchs (USA)
D. Haumann (USA)
J. Hodgins (USA)
M. Kass (USA)
P. Kalra (India)
A. Kaufman (USA)
T. L. Kunii (Japan)
D. Metaxas (USA)
N. Magnenat Thalmann (Switzerland)
F. Parke (USA)
N. Patrikalakis (USA)
A. Pentland (USA)
K. Perlin (USA)
L. Rosenblum (USA)
S. Y. Shin (Korea)
Y. Suenaga (Japan)
D. Terzopoulos (Canada)
D. Thalmann (Switzerland)
F-E. Wolter (Germany)
D. Zeltzer (USA)

COMPUTER ANIMATION'98 FILMS FESTIVAL

TENTATIVE Dates:

Philadelphia, 8-10 June 98
Geneva, 9-12 September 98

Call for Computer-Generated Films

The eleventh Computer Animation Film Festival will contain a selectio=
n of outstanding computer graphic animations.

Submit your latest work by February 28th, 1998.  Selected films will =
be shown on public screening during the Computer Animation'98
conference to be held at Philadelphia, (Pennsylvania - USA), 8-10 June
1998. The= y will be further screened during the traditional Computer
Animation Festival of Geneva (Switzerland), 9-12 Sept 1998.. Several
awards wil= l be awarded by an international panel of judges.  Films
should be submitted in video Betacam PAL only= .  Please include film
credits and complete description of the work in accordance with the
film submission form.

Full film submission form can be obtained either from the Computer
Animation'98 web server at http://cawww.unige.ch/

or by sending an email to
Computer.Animation@cui.unige.ch

Send films and requests for information to:

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
President of Computer Animation Film Festival
MIRALab, CUI
24 rue du G=E9n=E9ral-Dufour
CH-1211 Geneva 4,
Switzerland

fax: +41-22-705-7780

Email: Computer.Animation@cui.unige.ch