COMPUTER ANIMATION '2000 CONFERENCE


Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dates: May 3-5, 2000


The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and IEEE Computer Siciety are
pleased to announce the organization of COMPUTER ANIMATION '2000 in
Philadelphia.  This 13th conference on Computer Animation is organized
by the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS) at the University
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 scientific 
visualization
Keyframe techniques                          Animation in engineering
Motion Capture                               Motion blur and temporal 
antialiasing
Path planning                                A.I.-based animation
Physics-Based Animation                      Robotics and animation
Virtual humans and avatars                   Virtual reality
Image rendering in animation                 Autonomous characters and actors
Animation languages and systems              Sound and speech synchronization
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 January 31, 2000. Authors will be notified
by March 10, 2000.  Camera-ready papers are due by April 1, 2000. All
accepted papers will appear in a book published by IEEE Computer
Society Press.


Original unpublished papers of up to 25 pages (single-spaced, 12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). If your paper contains an animation then it is required
that you send 4 videotapes as well.


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



IMPORTANT DATES


     PAPERS DUE : January 31, 2000.
     NOTICE OF ACCEPTANCE WITH REVIEWS: March 10, 2000.
     CAMERA READY PAPERS DUE: April 1, 2000.
     CONFERENCE: May 3-5, 2000.



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: 215 573 7453
Email: dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dnm


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Conference Chairs


Norman I. Badler
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
badler@central.cis.upenn.edu


Daniel Thalmann
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Switzerland
thalmann@eldi.epfl.ch


Program Chairs


Dimitris Metaxas (USA)
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu


Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
thalmann@cui.unige.ch



Program Committee


N. Ayache, INRIA, France
N. Badler, UPENN, USA
A. Blake,  Microsoft UK
M. Brand, Mitsubishi, USA
A. Bruderlin, SONY, USA
I. Carlbom, Lucent, USA
P. Cohen, OGI, USA
T-S. Chua, N. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

M. Cohen, Microsoft, USA
D. DeCarlo, Rutgers, USA
J. Duncan, Yale Univ., USA
D. Ebert, UMBC, USA
I. Essa, GATECH, USA
E. Fiume, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
N. Foster, PDI, USA
P. Fua, EPFL, Switzerland
H. Fuchs, UNC, USA
M. Gleicher, U. Wisconsin - Madison, USA
C. Bregler, Stanford, USA
J. Gomes, IMPA, Brazil
L. Guibas, Stanford, USA
D. Haumann, PIXAR, USA
J. Hodgins, GATECH, USA
R. Herpers, U. of Applied Sciences Rhein-Sieg, Germany
I. Kakadiaris, Univ. of Houston, USA
P. Kalra,  IIT-Delhi, INDIA
M. Kass, PIXAR, USA
A. Kaufman, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
T. L. Kunii, Japan
M. Lin, UNC, USA
B. Loftin, Univ. of Houston, USA
N. Magnenat-Thalmann, U. Geneva, Switzerland
D. Manocha, UNC, USA
D. Metaxas, UPENN, USA
F. Parke, Texas A&M University, USA
N. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA
K. Perlin, NYU, USA
T. Poggio, MIT, USA
Z. Popovic, U. Washington, USA
H. Qin, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
L. Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, USA
S. Seitz, CMU, USA
S. Sclaroff, BU, USA
S. Y. Shin, KAIST, Korea
Y. Suenaga, Nagoya Univ., Japan
B. Takacs, Virtual Celebrity, USA
D. Terzopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
D. Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
B. Vemuri, Univ. of Forida, USA
T. Vetter, Max Planck Institute, Germany
L. Velho, IMPA, Brazil