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CFP: STAR reports EuroVis 2016 - sketch December 11

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CALL FOR STATE-OF-THE-ART REPORTS All accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum EuroVis 2016 is the 18th annual scientific gathering on visualization jointly organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. EuroVis 2016 will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands from June 6-10, 2016. For the first time, all accepted EuroVis 2016 STAR reports will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) are intended to provide up-to-date and comprehensive surveys on topics of interest to the visualization research community. We encourage the submission of STARs on topics that have not yet been covered in any recent previous STAR or other survey. We welcome submissions that introduce emerging technologies, as well as proposals on more traditional visualization topics. We also welcome contributions from related disciplines and application areas demonstrating contributions to, or benefits from, the area of visualization including, but not limited to, visual computing, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, virtual reality, image processing, computer vision, psychology, geography, chemistry, computational fluid dynamics, data analysis, computational sciences, medicine, biology, economy, politology, etc. As part of the acceptance process into Computer Graphics Forum, STARs will undergo a multi-stage process. First, authors are being asked to submit an initial sketch. A STAR sketch briefly describes the planned STAR by outlining the topic, discussing its relevance for the visualization community, providing the planned structure and outline of the STAR together with all key references, and short biographies of the authors. The length of a STAR sketch is limited to three pages whereby the last page may only contain references. The format of the sketch can be found at http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines. STAR sketches will be reviewed by the STAR program co-chairs for suitability and relevance, and the authors of accepted sketches will be invited to submit a full STAR. Full STAR submissions will then undergo a single blind, double cycle review, similar to the one for regular papers, where three external experts on the respective topic will evaluate the STAR. Full submissions are 25 pages maximum. Electronic submission of the STAR sketch and full proposal is mandatory and will be conducted using <https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/> https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc/ according to the guidelines defined at <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines> http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/SubmissionGuidelines We plan to schedule each STAR as a 50-100 minute presentation as in Eurographics conferences (subject to the schedule management of the EuroVis 2016 program). In any circumstance, a STAR presentation will always be given a longer time slot than that for a full paper. For any questions concerning STAR submissions please contact the STARs co-chairs: eurovis2016_star(a)list.rug.nl Important Dates Submission of STAR sketch (up to 3 pages): December 11, 2015 Invitation for full STAR submission: December 23, 2015 Submission of full STAR: February 14, 2016 Review notification: March 18, 2016 Second round submission: April 18, 2016 Second review notification: May 1, 2016 Camera ready deadline: May 15, 2016 General Chair Jos Roerdink, Univeristy of Gronigen, The Netherlands STAR Chairs Anna Vilanova (A.Vilanova(a)tudelft.nl), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ross Maciejewski (rmacieje(a)asu.edu), Arizona State University, USA Timo Ropinski (timo.ropinski(a)uni-ulm.de), Ulm University, Germany

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EG2016 via Twiter

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The location of our twitter is the following: <https://twitter.com/EG_2016_Lisbon> https://twitter.com/EG_2016_Lisbon

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EuroVis'2016

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******** EUROVIS 2016 ******** EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization June 6-10, 2016 Groningen, The Netherlands <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/> http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ EuroVis 2016, hosted by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is the 18th annual visualization gathering organized by the Eurographics Working Group on Data Visualization and supported by the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (IEEE VGTC). EuroVis has been a Eurographics and IEEE co-supported international visualization symposium held in Europe annually since 1999. EuroVis has been a conference since 2012. Authors are invited to submit original work presenting fundamental research, practice and experience, or novel applications in all areas of visualization and related topics. EuroVis full papers are published as a special issue of Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), the International Journal of the Eurographics Association, using a two-stage review process. Also, State-of-the-Art Reports (STARs) will undergo a two-stage review process and for the first time all accepted STARs will be published in Computer Graphics Forum. EuroVis Short Papers will be electronically archived in the Eurographics Digital Library and are fully citable publications. ** Important dates ( <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/ImportantDates> http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/ForSubmitters/ImportantDates): Full Paper Abstracts: Friday 4 December 2015 Full Papers: Friday 11 December 2015 STAR sketch: Friday 11 December 2015 STAR invitation to submit: Wednesday 23 December 2015 Full STARs: Sunday 14 February 2016 Short Papers: Friday 19 February 2016 Posters: Friday 8 April 2016 Please note that an abstract submission is required one week before the full papers deadline to assist the papers chairs in allocating reviewers and ensure that the review process runs to time. Also, for STARs a short sketch is required that will be reviewed for suitability and relevance by the STAR chairs. ** Committees ( <http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/Organization> http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/eurovis2016/Organization): General Chair Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Papers Chairs Kwan-Liu Ma, University of California at Davis, USA Giuseppe Santucci, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy Jarke van Wijk, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands STARs Chairs Ross Maciejewski, Arizona State University, USA Timo Ropinski, Ulm University, Germany Anna Vilanova, TU Delft, the Netherlands Short Papers Chairs Enrico Bertini, New York University, USA Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland, USA Thomas Wischgoll, Wright University, USA Posters Chairs Tobias Isenberg, INRIA, France Filip Sadlo, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Call for Candidates: EG PHD Award

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The Eurographics Best PhD Thesis Award aims to recognize good thesis work in Europe, to incentivize young researchers, and to offer them the opportunity to publish the state of the art section of their thesis as a STAR in the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. Eurographics annually grants three PhD thesis awards. They are jointly sponsored by Eurographics and the Computer Graphics Forum Journal. The PhD Thesis Awards Committee consists of five members. The current Call will close on November 30th, 2015. Candidates will be PhD Theses defended and mainly conducted in Europe or in countries having a Eurographics Chapter or in EG Organizational Member Institutions ( <https://www.eg.org/index.php/about-eg/local-chapters> https://www.eg.org/index.php/about-eg/local-chapters ). Theses defended and awarded the degree from May 1st, 2014, up October 31st, 2015, are eligible in this edition. The required documentation includes: 1. The Thesis in English, or a link to the corresponding entry in the EG Digital Library. 2. Names and contact details of four possible reviewers, of which at least one is not the Thesis supervisor or one of the examiners or a co-author in a publication resulting from the thesis. The connection of each possible reviewer to the Thesis (Supervisor, Examiner, Co-author, None) should be stated. The Awards Committee reserves the right to solicit reviews also from persons not on this list. 3. The submission must include a link to the Thesis pdf in the Eurographics Digital Library, Graphics Dissertation Online. Nominations must refer to Thesis documents being publicly available at Graphics Dissertation Online. Forms and procedures for submission of the thesis for archiving in the Eurographics Digital Library are available at: <http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/8107> http://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/8107 4. Full CV of the candidate with explicit mention of which publications resulted from the thesis. The documentation of candidate nominations must be sent by e-mail to the PhD Thesis Awards chair, Paolo Cignoni ( <mailto:paolo.cignoni@isti.cnr.it> paolo.cignoni(a)isti.cnr.it), not later than November 30th, 2015. Submissions can be sent by the candidate, the supervisor or any other researcher. All submitted material should be in English. Every Thesis can be submitted only once. The PhD Thesis Awards Committee consists of five members. Committee membership will be for five years terms, which will be staggered to ensure continuity. The committee can decide, as an extraordinary measure, to increase the number of awards in some years. The Committee will consider the quality of the work, the review reports, the quality and impact of the publications derived from the thesis, the coherence of the state of the art section in the thesis and any other relevant aspect of the work. Awarded researchers will be announced and receive a certificate at the opening session of the Annual Eurographics Conference (where they will profit from a free registration). They will also receive a three-years free Eurographics membership, and will be invited to prepare a State-of-the-Art paper within two months after the Conference. Submitted papers will follow a fast track review cycle for publication in the STAR section of the Computer Graphics Forum Journal.

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10 PhD positions at the Center for Geometry and Computational Design, TU Wien

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Dear colleagues, The Center for Geometry and Computational Design, TU Wien, invites applications for 10 PhD positions in the Doctoral College 'Computational Design'. Several of these positions have strong components of computer graphics. Application deadline is November 15, 2015. The Doctoral College starts in January 2016. For further details see the announcement below and the following link: <http://gcd.tuwien.ac.at> http://gcd.tuwien.ac.at I would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to qualified candidates. Best regards, Michael Wimmer -- -- Dr. Michael Wimmer-------------------------------------------------------- Institut fuer Computergraphik und Algorithmen tel: +43 (1) 58801 18687 Technische Universitaet Wien fax: +43 (1) 58801 18698 Favoritenstr. 9-11/5/E186 http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Oesterreich mailto:wimmer@cg.tuwien.ac.at ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------- The Doctoral College Computational Design (DC:{CD}) at TU Wien, embedded in the Center for Geometry and Computational Design, is the first PhD program in Austria that is situated at the interface of several areas of excellence in research: Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Computer Aided Automation, Discrete Mathematics and Geometry, Architectural Sciences, Art and Design, History of Art, Building Archaeology and Restoration, Interdisciplinary Construction Process Management and Mechanics of Materials and Structures. The prerequisite for becoming a PhD student in the DC is a completed master degree or equivalent (e.g., Dipl.-Ing., Dipl.-Inf.), preferably with distinction, in the following fields: . Architecture . Civil engineering/structural engineering . Computer science/informatics . Mathematics . Mechanical or industrial engineering . Physics For more details on PhD topics and how to apply see: http://gcd.tuwien.ac.at

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Assistant Professor in Computer Graphics at the Universite de Montreal

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Dear friends and colleagues, We are very excited to announce that the computer graphics group at the University of Montreal (LIGUM) has secured an opening for a tenure-track position in computer graphics at the rank of Assistant Professor. As such, we are looking for a highly motivated, strong candidate with a proven track record to strengthen and complement our lab. We will seriously consider all candidates with any experience in computer graphics (defined broadly). If you are, or know of, strong candidates, please do not hesitate to forward them our official announcement (see below). Any PhD student applicants will be expected to have graduated by June 1st, 2016. If there are any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: Derek Nowrouzezahrai (derek(a)iro.umontreal.ca) or Pierre Poulin (poulin(a)iro.umontreal.ca). We can also provide additional information that is not in the official posting, such as details on UdeMontreal's generous consulting and sabbatical policies, UdeMontreal's unique recurring funding package, our student population, as well as information about the city of Montreal (e.g., cost of living, social climate, etc.). Note that the deadline for the submitting the application materials is fast approaching (November 9th, 2015), however we will continue to accept reference letters until a later date (November 30th, 2015). For more information about the LIGUM, visit our lab website: www.ligum.umontreal.ca You can also see our personal websites: www.iro.umontreal.ca/~derek/ and www.iro.umontreal.ca/~poulin/ Official announcement in English: http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/EN_informatique/Documents/4 -Repertoire/Affichage_anglais-inforgraphie_vfinale_d%C3%A9p.pdf Official announcement in French: http://diro.umontreal.ca/fileadmin/Documents/FAS/EN_informatique/Documents/4 -Repertoire/Affichage_francais_infographie_vfinale_d%C3%A9p.pdf

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[VRIPHYS+SOFA] Sofa-Day side event

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Dear All, We are pleased to inform you that we organize a SOFA (half-)day in Lyon, before the VRIPHYS EuroGraphics Workshop on Virtual Reality Interaction and Physical Simulation. The event will take place on November 3 afternoon. <http://vriphys2015.sciencesconf.org/page/sofa_page> http://vriphys2015.sciencesconf.org/page/sofa_page SOFA is an open-source framework primarily targeted at real-time simulation, with an emphasis on medical simulation. It is mostly intended for the research community to help develop newer models and algorithms. <http://www.sofa-framework.org/> http://www.sofa-framework.org/ This idea of this meeting is to propose some tutorials for SOFA and to present recent work based on SOFA. This will also be the opportunity to increase exchange and communication within the SOFA community. The inscription for this event is free. However, registration is mandatory, just sent an email to <mailto:vriphys2015@liris.cnrs.fr?Subject=%5BVRIPHYS2015%5D%20Registration%2 0SOFA-User%20Day> vriphys2015(a)liris.cnrs.fr ------------------------------------------------ Preliminary program (Nov. 3, 14:00 - 17:00): . Main principles of SOFA (30min) . How to create your own scene (XML / Python) (30min) -- short discussion time -- . Examples of recent applications: (1h) . Soft-Robot . Neurosurgical simulator . Cryosurgery simulator . Augmented reality . Solvers in Compliant . Interactive tools for scene creation - Live Coding (30min) -- short break -- . Future: a SOFA consortium (15min+discussion)

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EUROGRAPHICS'2016 - Call for Tutorials

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EUROGRAPHICS 2016 - 2nd Call for Tutorials (Submissions deadline: October 23th, 2015) The Eurographics 2016 Tutorials Committee invites you to propose tutorials teaching the technical background of a given subject, or demonstrating its potential creative applications. Tutorials are intended to show what can be done, but even more importantly, how this is done and what kind of tools can be used to do it. In a proposal for a tutorial you should consider that tutorial attendees come from diverse backgrounds, ranging from research and development to education and application. We are soliciting half-day and full-day tutorial proposals at the beginning, intermediate, or advanced level in all areas pertinent to Computer Graphics. Half-day tutorials are about three hours, plus a coffee break in the middle. Full-day tutorials are twice that long, plus two coffee breaks and a longer lunch break. Tutorial proposals are about 4-5 pages in length, clearly indicating the audience that is addressed as well as the syllabus of instruction. They will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs, supported by external reviewers. The final selection will be based on quality of the submission, qualification of the presenters, relevance to the conference topics, and balance of topics. Each accepted half day tutorial will be granted a free conference registration for one speaker, while each full-day tutorial will be granted a maximum of two free conference registrations. For any question concerning tutorial submissions please contact the papers program co-chairs: chairs-eg2016tutorials(a)eg.org SUBMISSION DETAILS Tutorial proposals (in PDF) should be submitted via email to the tutorial co-chairs (chairs-eg2016tutorials(a)eg.org). The full proposal (4-5 pages) should be submitted by Friday, October 23th, 2015, 23:59 UTC/GMT. The acceptance notification date is Friday, December 4th, 2015. The full proposal should contain the following information: Presenter(s) details: Name(s) Institution(s) email address(es) URL(s) Tutorial details: Title of Tutorial Keywords Half or full day tutorial (either 2×90 minutes or 4×90 minutes) A detailed outline of the tutorial. A statement on the necessary background and potential target audience for the tutorial. A brief resume of the presenter(s) indicating their background in the area the tutorial addresses. If a (similar) tutorial was previously held, indicate the location (i.e., which conference), date, and the number of attendees. Please provide information highlighting changes, improvements and/or why the tutorial should be held again in this form. COURSE NOTES Sample course notes, although not required in the submission, are highly encouraged to accompany the tutorial proposals. Notes may include original text, formatted according to the Eurographics publication guidelines, reprints of earlier papers (subject to copyright approval), slides and any other material the authors consider useful. All course notes of accepted tutorials will be distributed to conference participants online and on USB-Sticks. The acceptance of tutorial proposals is contingent upon the final submission of complete course notes.

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Motion in Games 2015 in Paris, Nov 16-18, Call for participation

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 2015 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2015 (MIG) November 16-18, 2015, Paris, France <https://mig2015.inria.fr/> https://mig2015.inria.fr/ ============================================================ The 8th ACM International Conference on Motion in Games will take place in Paris, France from November 16-18, 2015 and be hosted by Telecom ParisTech. MIG is sponsored by ACM and held in cooperation with Eurographics. Games have become a very important medium for education, therapy and entertainment. Motion plays a crucial role in computer games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through the scene. Even the motion of the player is used as input to games. Motion is currently studied in many different areas of research, including graphics and animation, game technology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also physics, psychology, and urban studies. Cross-fertilization between these communities can considerably advance the state-of- the-art in the area. The goal of the Motion in Games conference is to bring together researchers from this variety of fields to present their most recent results, to initiate collaborations, and to contribute to the establishment of the research area. The conference will consist of regular paper sessions, poster presentations, as well as presentations by a selection of established researchers in areas related to games and simulation. The conference program will also include cultural and social events that foster casual and friendly interactions among the participants. MIG provides an intimate forum for researchers and practitioners to present their research results, inspire new ideas, and promote cross-disciplinary collaborations. We have an exciting program planned for 2015 with four keynote speakers that are at the forefront of research in character animation, games, and artificial intelligence. (1) Jean-Paul Laumond, Directeur de Recherche, LAAS-CNRS, France (2) Robert W. Sumner, Associate Director, Disney Research Zurich (3) Nadia Berthouze, Professor Affective Interaction and Computing, University College London (4) Alex Champandard, Editor in Chief, Technical Director & Entrepreneur at AiGameDev.com Motion in Games will hold a “Games meet Academia" panel whose aim is to stimulate an active debate between practitioners and researchers alike, in an effort to bridge the gap between advanced research and development in computer games, and fundamental research in interactive computer animation. Conference chair ============= Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - LTCI, Telecom ParisTech, France Program Chairs ============ Marc Christie, University of Rennes 1/INRIA Rennes, France Mubbasir Kapadia, Rutgers University, USA. Registration ========= Registration before October 17th, 2015: ACM/SIGGRAPH Professional Member € 390 Non-member € 440 Student € 270 Registration from October 17th (included), 2015 and on-site price: ACM/SIGGRAPH Professional Member € 440 Non-member € 490 Student € 290 Register here: <https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventId=1739442> https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventId=1739442 Program ======= Nov. 16th - 9:30-10:30 – Keynote Talk #1 Speaker: Jean-Paul Laumond (LAAS CNRS FRANCE) Title: The Yoyo-Man Humans are not walking, they are rolling! The objective of the talk is to give sense to this obscure statement. Indeed, the wheel may be a plausible model of bipedal walking. We report on preliminary results developed along three perspectives combining biomechanics, neurophysiology and robotics. From a motion capture data basis of human walkers we first identify the center of mass (CoM) as a geometric center from which the motions of the feet are organized. Then we show how rimless wheels that model most passive walkers are better controlled when equipped with a stabilized mass on top of them. CoM and head play complementary roles that define what we call the Yoyo-Man. Nov. 16th - 11:00-12:30 – Session #1: Character animation and motion-capture Reduced Marker Layouts for Optical Motion Capture of Hands Matthias Schröder, Jonathan Maycock and Mario Botsch Adaptation Procedure for HMM-Based Sensor-Dependent Gesture Recognition Sohaib Laraba, Joëlle Tilmanne and Thierry Dutoit Segmenting Motion Capture Data Using a Qualitative Analysis Durell Bouchard and Norman Badler Optimal Marker Set for Motion Capture of Facial Dynamical Expressions Clément Reverdy, Sylvie Gibet and Caroline Larboulette Deep Signatures for Indexing and Retrieval in Large Motion Databases Yingying Wang and Michael Neff Nov. 16th - 14:00-15:00 – Keynote Talk #2 Speaker: Robert W. Sumner (Disney Research Zurich) Title: Amplifying Creativity in Animation and Games “Art challenges technology, and technology inspires the art.” These are the words John Lasseter used to describe his experience as an artist working with the technology leaders at Pixar three decades ago to pioneer what we know today as computer-generated animation. At the heart of this statement lies the idea that technology and art, when joined together, hold a unique and promising potential to amplify creativity. This very concept forms the central vision of the Animation and Games group at Disney Research Zurich. In this keynote talk, I will share our experiences as researchers working with Disney artists on technology to amplify creativity, including several tough challenges that art has given us, as well as a few successes in which we could inspire the art. Attendees can expect examples of recent research advances in animation, simulation, stylization, and, in Disney style, a little bit of singing. Nov. 16th - 15:00-16:30 – Session #2: Character animation Eye Movement Synthesis with 1/f Pink Noise Andrew Duchowski, Sophie Joerg, Aubrey Lawson, Takumi Bolte, Lech Swirski and Krzysztof Krejtz Avatar Reshaping and Automatic Rigging Using a Deformable Model Andrew Feng, Dan Casas and Ari Shapiro Motion Control via Muscle Synergies: Application to Throwing Ana Lucia Cruz Ruiz, Charles Pontonnier, Jonathan Levy and Georges Dumont A Closed-Form Solution for Human Finger Positioning Roel Duits, A. Frank van der Stappen and Arjan Egges Nov. 16th - 17:00-18:30 – Session #3: Crowds DAVIS: Density-Adaptive Synthetic-Vision Based Steering for Virtual Crowds Rowan Hughes, Jan Ondrej and John Dingliana An Analysis of Manoeuvring in Dense Crowds Sybren A. Stüvel, Arjan Egges, Frank van der Stappen and Thijs de Goeij Evaluating and Optimizing Level of Service for Crowd Evacuations Brandon Haworth, Muhammad Usman, Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos ACCLMesh: Curvature-Based Navigation Mesh Generation Glen Berseth, Mubbasir Kapadia and Petros Faloutsos Nov. 16th - 18:30- – The “Wine & Cheese” poster session A Generic Multi-Level Framework for Agent Navigation Wouter van Toll, Norman Jaklin and Roland Geraerts Virtual worlds’ influences on our mental balance and physical health: a survey with philosophical approaches Maria Christoforou and Despina Michael Autonomous Positioning of Avatars at a Guided Virtual Educational Trip Fons Kuijk Statistical Framework for Animation synthesis of Laughter Yu Ding and Catherine Pelachaud Gaze Shifts and Navigation in Virtual Environments: Towards a Prediction Model Alessandro Canossa and Jeremy Badler A Model to Compute People Disturbance in Crowds Cliceres Mack Dal Bianco, Adriana Braun, Jovani Brasil and Soraia Raupp Musse Simulated Postural Sway for the Improvement of Depth Perception in Pre-Generated Virtual Reality Panoramas Matthew Bett Recognizing Emotional Expressiveness in Raw 3D Body Motion Data Haris Zacharatos, Christos Gatzoulis, Anargyros Chatzitofis and Yiorgos Chrysanthou Study of Nine People in a Hallway Claudio Pedica, Karl Kristinsson and Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson Dynamic Hierarchical Search on the GPU Francisco Garcia, Norman Badler and Mubbasir Kapadia Improving crowd behaviour for emergency simulation using game-captured data Marco Castorina and Eike Falk Anderson A New and Simple Method for Balance Quantification Venustiano Soancatl Autonomous gaze animation for socially interactive virtual characters during multiparty interactions Zerrin Yumak and Arjan Egges Immersive scale-one movement analysis in the CAVE Eray Molla, Christian Arevalo and Ronan Boulic Towards Free Stepping Behavior Characterization Ronan Boulic, Utku Evci, Eray Molla and Phanindra Pisupati Nov. 17th - 8:30-9:30 – Keynote Talk #3 Speaker: Nadia Berthouze (University College of London Interaction Centre) Title: “The body and its actions: how they can be used to manipulate the player’s experience” Recent years have seen the emergence of game technology that involves and requires its users to be engaged through their body. In addition, studies in psychology have shown that our body expressions affect our emotional state, our cognitive abilities and our attitude towards the environment around us. This has generated an increased interest in understanding and exploiting this modality to automatically recognize, respond to and regulate users’ affective experience. In the first part of my talk, I will report on our studies aimed at understanding how body expressions and body movement can be used to modulate user experience in games and physical activity in real-life situations such as walking and physical rehabilitation. Then, I’ll discuss how emotional states can be automatically detected from body expressions, including muscle activity and touch behaviour. Examples from games and physical rehabilitation will be presented. Nov. 17th - 9:30-11:00 – Session #4: Planning Automated Interactive Narrative Synthesis using Dramatic Theory Carlos Antonio Dominguez, Yuya Ichimura and Mubbasir Kapadia RT-RRT*: A Real-Time Path Planning Algorithm Based On RRT* Kourosh Naderi, Joose Rajamäki and Perttu Hämäläinen Multi-Modal Data-Driven Motion Planning and Synthesis Mentar Mahmudi and Marcelo Kallmann Nov. 17th - 11:30-12:30 – Session #5: Simulation Interactive Arbitrarily Detailed Cutting of Thin Sheets Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Wei-Lun Sun, François Faure, Marie-Paule Cani and James F. O’Brien Pattern-Guided Simulations of Immersed Rigid Bodies Haoran Xie and Kazunori Miyata Interactive procedural simulation of paper tearing with sound Thibault Lejemble, Amélie Fondevilla, Nicolas Durin, Thibault Blanc-Beyne, Camille Schreck, Pierre-Luc Manteaux, Paul G. Kry and Marie-Paule Cani Camera-on-rails: Automated Computation of Constrained Camera Paths Quentin Galvane, Marc Christie, Christophe Lino and Rémi Ronfard Nov. 17th - 14:00-16:00 – Session #6: Taking control The Sea Is Your Mirror Marc Parenthoën, Fred Murie and Flavien Thery Crowd Art: Density and Flow Based Crowd Motion Design Kevin Jordao, Panayiotis Charalambous, Marc Christie, Julien Pettre and Marie-Paule Cani Real-time gait control for partially immersed bipeds Samuel Carensac, Nicolas Pronost and Saida Bouakaz Robust Balance Shift Control with Posture Optimization Zumra Kavafoglu, Ersan Kavafoglu and Arjan Egges Carpet Unrolling Descriptors for Character Control On Uneven Terrain Mark Miller, Daniel Holden, Rami Al-Ashqar, Christophe Dubach, Kenny Mitchell and Taku Komura Nov. 17th - 16:30-18:30 – Game Panel Title: Games meet Academia This “Games meet Academia” panel aims at stimulating an active debate between practitioners and researchers alike, in an effort to bridge the gap between advanced research and development in computer games, and fundamental research in interactive computer animation. 8:30-9:30 – Keynote Talk #4 Speaker: Alex Champandard (AIDevGame.com) Title: Modern AI and Its Impact on Animation and Movement In this talk, you'll learn about the fast progress being made in Artificial Intelligence in the games industry, and see how this is impacting challenging problems like animation and movement. What exactly is motion matching and why is it only possible now? How can machine learning help and why are developers ready for new techniques? Alex will explain all this and more in a forward looking presentation. Nov. 18th - 9:30-10:30 – Session #7: Collisions Clustering and Collision Detection for Clustered Shape Matching Ben Jones, April Martin, Josh Levine, Tamar Shinar and Adam Bargteil Fast Contact Determination for Intersecting Deformable Solids Oscar Civit-Flores and Antonio Susín Collision Detection for Articulated Deformable Characters Nadine Abu Rumman, Marco Schaerf and Dominique Bechmann Nov. 18th - 11:00-12:30 – Session #8: Realism, aesthetics, visualization and registration Animation Realism Affects Perceived Character Appeal of a Self-Virtual Face Elena Kokkinara and Rachel McDonnell Fin Textures for Real-Time Painterly Aesthetics Nicolas Imhof, Antoine Milliez, Flurin Jenal, Rene Bauer, Markus Gross and Robert W. Sumner HeapCraft: Interactive Data Exploration and Visualization Tools for Understanding and Influencing Player Behavior in Minecraft Stephan Müller, Barbara Solenthaler, Mubbasir Kapadia, Seth Frey, Severin Klingler, Richard Mann, Robert W. Sumner and Markus Gross Automatic and Adaptable Registration of Live RGBD Video Streams Afsaneh Rafighi, Sahand Seifi and Oscar Meruvia-Pastor See you in Paris!

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Call for Participation: ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2015

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# Apologies for multiple postings ============================================================================ ======================== 14th ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry - ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2015 Kobe Port Island Center, Kobe, Japan October 30th - November 1st, 2015 <http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/> http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/ Call for Participation VRCAI is an annual ACM SIGGRAPH-sponsored international conference on virtual reality continuum and its applications. The 14th ACM International Conference on Virtual Reality Continuum and Its Applications in Industry (VRCAI 2015) will take place during October 30th to November 1st in Kobe, co-located with ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2015. Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 15, 2015 <http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/for-attendees/registra tion/> http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/for-attendees/registrat ion/ Accommodation is available for registered participants. <http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/for-attendees/accommod ation/> http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/for-attendees/accommoda tion/ This year we have accepted eight long papers, eight short papers, thirty-one posters and demos. We have also invited five SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 posters as a part of a collaboration with VRCAI and SIGGRAPH ASIA. The detailed program is available on our website. In particular, we are happy to announce Hiroo Iwata from University of Tsukuba and Shigeru Kuriyama from Toyohashi University of Technology as Keynote Speakers. <http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/program/> http://www.cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp/conference/vrcai2015/program/ Inquiry can be sent to: <mailto:vrcai2015@cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp> vrcai2015(a)cg.ces.kyutech.ac.jp See you soon in Kobe. Conference Co-Chairs: Issei Fujishiro, Keio University, Japan Zhigeng Pan, Hangzhou Normal University, China Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, NTU, Singapore & MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland Program Co-Chairs: Masaki Oshita, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Xubo Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Hyun Seung Yang, KAIST, Korea Posters&Demos Chair Tomohiko Mukai, Tokai University, Japan ============================================================================ ========================

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