[General] MIG'2019 conference - Second call for papers

Dear all, Please find below the second call for papers for Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG) 2019, an ACM SIGGRAPH Conference in cooperation with Eurograhics. We are pleased to annouce three great key-note speakers : Markus Gross, Taku Komura and Karan Singh. Extended versions of our best papers will published in IEEE TVCG and in Computer and Graphics. We are looking forward to your submissions and participation, please forward this call around! Marie-Paule Cani & Tiberiu Popa, Program co-chairs --------------------------------------------- Call for papers The 12th annual ACM/SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2019, formerly Motion in Games) will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 28th - 30th Oct 2019. The goal of the Motion, Interaction, and Games conference is to be a platform for bringing together researchers from interactive systems and animation, and have them present their most recent results, initiate collaborations, and contribute to the advancement of the research area. The program will consist of regular paper sessions for long and short papers, posters,, and invided talks by a selection of internationally renowned speakers from Academia and the Industry. More on the conference website: <http://www.mig2019.website/> http://www.mig2019.website/ Important dates * Long and Short Paper Submission Deadline: 12th July 2019 * Long and Short Paper Acceptance Notification: 30th August 2019 * Long and Short Paper Camera Ready Deadline: 20th September 2019 Topics of Interest Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): Animation Systems Animal locomotion Autonomous actors Behavioral animation, crowds & artificial life Clothes, skin and hair Deformable models Expressive animation Facial animation Facial feature analysis Game interaction and player experience Game technology Gesture recognition Group and crowd behaviour Human motion analysis Image-based animation Interaction in virtual and augmented reality Interactive animation systems Interactive storytelling in games Machine learning techniques for animation Motion capture & retargeting Motion control Motion in performing arts Motion in sports Motion rehabilitation systems Multimodal interaction: haptics, sound, etc Navigation & path planning Physics-based animation Real-time fluids User-adaptive interaction and personalization Virtual humans We invite submissions of original, high-quality papers in any of the topics of interest (see above) or any related topic. Each submission should be 7-10 pages in length for a long paper, or 4-6 pages for a short paper. They will be reviewed by our international program committee for technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity. All of the accepted long and short papers will be presented during sessions at the conference. They will be archived in the ACM Digital Libraries with their own DOIs. All submissions will be considered for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation awards, which will be conferred during the conference. Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit extended and significantly revised versions to be considered for publication in a special section of IEEE Transactions on Visualizations and Computer Graphics (TVCG, Impact Factor 3.078), or of Computers & Graphics (C&G, Impact Factor: 1.200). Submission Papers should be anonymized for double-blind reviewing, and formatted using the SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines (sigconf). Detailed submission instructions are available at: <http://www.mig2019.website/submityourpaper.html> http://www.mig2019.website/submityourpaper.html Please note that at least one full registration will be required for every published paper, in order to meet the costs of the conference.