Updated CFP:
The deadline for the ACM/SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction, and
Games (MIG 2018) has been extended by a week. The new submission deadline
is July 16 (23:59 AoE timezone).
The 11th annual ACM/SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction and Games
(MIG 2018, formerly Motion in Games) will take place in Limassol, Cyprus
from November 8-10, 2018. MIG is sponsored by ACM and held in cooperation
with Eurographics.
This year's MIG will feature a half day Machine Learning workshop led by
<http://theorangeduck.com/> Daniel Holden (Ubisoft), and
<https://sites.google.com/site/jungdampersonal/> Jungdam Won (Seoul National
University)! Both researchers have used ML to make great contributions to
the field of character animation. This workshop is designed to show
attendees how they can start to use ML in their own research. More info
about the workshop is available here:
<http://cyprusconferences.org/mig2018/call-of-papers/workshops/>
http://cyprusconferences.org/mig2018/workshops/ .
Motion plays a crucial role in interactive applications, such as VR, AR, and
video games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to
physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through
the scene. Technological advances in VR and AR have also enabled new ways
for users to interact with digital environments. Motion, Interaction, and
Games (MIG) is focused on the intersection between these three complimentary
research areas.
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. Likewise, the
challenges of interaction drive research in wide ranging fields from
mechanical engineering, to interface design, to perception. Games provide a
unique application domain for investigating the intersection of the many
facets of motion, interaction, and other areas of graphics.
Cross-fertilization between these communities can considerably advance the
state-of-the-art in the area.
The goal of the Motion, Interaction, and 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
advancement of the research area. The conference will consist of regular
paper sessions as well as presentations by a selection of internationally
renowned speakers in all areas related to interactive systems and animation.
The conference includes entertaining cultural and social events that foster
casual and friendly interactions among the participants.
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Important Dates
Papers
Paper submission: July 16th, 2018 (deadline extended!)
Paper notification: August 20th, 2018
Camera-ready: Sept 17th, 2018
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Conference Leadership
Conference Chairs
* <http://www.panayiotis-charalambous.com/> Panayiotis Charalambous,
<https://www.cyi.ac.cy/> The Cyprus Institute
* <http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~yiorgos/> Yiorgos Chrysanthou,
<https://www.ucy.ac.cy/> The University of Cyprus &
<http://rise.org.cy/>
RISE
Program Chairs
* <http://www.cs.utah.edu/~benjones/> Ben Jones,
<https://www.utah.edu/> University of Utah
* <http://mrl.snu.ac.kr/~jehee/> Jehee Lee,
<http://snu.ac.kr/index.html> Seoul National University
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Paper Publication
All of the accepted regular papers will be archived in the EG and ACM
digital libraries. The top 10% papers will be selected for publication in a
special section of the Elseviers Computers & Graphics.
Topics of Interest
The relevant topics include (but are not limited to):
* Animation Systems
* Animation Algorithms and Techniques
* Character Animation
* Behavioral Animation
* Facial Animation
* Particle Systems
* Simulation of Natural Environments
* Natural Motion Simulation
* Virtual Humans
* Physics-based Motion
* Crowd Simulation
* Path Planning
* Navigation and Way-finding
* Flocking and Steering Behaviour
* Camera Motion
* Object Manipulation
* Motion Capture Techniques
* Motion Analysis and Synthesis
* Gesture Recognition
* Interactive Narrative
* Virtual/Augmented Reality
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Review Process
All papers will be reviewed carefully by the International Program Committee
members through a double blind process, with at least four reviewers per
paper.
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Papers
We invite submissions of original, high-quality papers in any of the topics
of interest (see below). Each submission should be 7-10 pages in length for
the long papers or 4-6 pages for the short papers, and will be reviewed by
an international program committee for technical quality, novelty,
significance, and clarity. All of the accepted regular papers will be
archived in the EG and ACM digital libraries. All submissions will be
considered for Best Paper Awards. Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best
Presentation awards will be conferred during the conference.
The top 10% papers will be selected for a special issue in the
<https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics/>
Computer&Graphics journal (5 year impact factor: 1.089)
Accepted papers will be presented at the conference during oral sessions.
Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards will be conferred during the
conference.
We also invite poster submissions for work that has been published elsewhere
but is of particular relevance to the MIG community(this work and the venue
in which it as published should be identified in the abstract), or work that
is of interest to the MIG community but is not yet mature enough to appear
as a short or long paper.
Posters will not appear in the official MIG proceedings or in the ACM
Digital library but will appear in an online database for distribution at
author's discretion. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference
during oral sessions, or as posters during a poster session. Posters will be
reviewed single-blind, so author information may be included.
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Submission
Papers should be formatted using the SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines
(sigconf). To submit, please follow these
<http://cyprusconferences.org/mig2018/call-of-papers/submission/>
instructions before submitting to the
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mig18> easychair submission system.