<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Please find attached the final call for the IEEE CG&A special issue on animation of natural virtual characters. Note, due to requests, we have EXTENDED THE DEADLINE to November 8th.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Michael</div><div><br></div><div>--</div>Michael Neff<div>Director, Cinema and Digital Media</div><div>Associate Professor, Computer Science & Cinema and Digital Media</div><div>University of California, Davis</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:23.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-SemiboldItalic","sans-serif";color:#ff8000" lang="EN-US">Special Issue on Animation of Natural
Virtual Characters</span></i><span style="font-size:30.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Semibold","sans-serif";color:white" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Bold","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Final
submissions due: 8 November 2016 </span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Bold","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Publication
date: July/August 2017<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:26.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">V</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">irtual
characters are used in a range of applications—from interfaces
to games to
tutors—where they must effectively employ human nonverbal
communication. Often
these characters must hold conversations with either human
users or other
characters and must appropriately utilize arm gestures, head
movements, posture
changes, and facial expressions. Building systems that can
support these
interactions involves both the automatic specification and
generation of
appropriate character motion as well as coordination across
communication modes
and between multiple characters. Challenges include expressing
a range of
socio-emotional signals, maintaining consistent character
personalities, and
communicating intended messages clearly.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">This
special issue of </span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-MediumItalic","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">IEEE
Computer Graphics and Applications </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">will
provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners in
both the character
animation and virtual agents fields to publish their latest
work. For this
special issue, we solicit papers describing innovative
character animation techniques
and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to, the following:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Expressive
character animation (animation reflecting emotion,
personality, and style)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Models
of gesture and nonverbal communication<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Relevant
perceptual studies of character motion<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Multimodal
communicative behavior planning and coordination<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Capturing
the behavior/animation style of particular people<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Specification
and generation of conversational character models<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Multicharacter
conversational interaction<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Machine
learning techniques applied to these problems<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Evaluations
of expressive conversational character systems<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-SemiboldItalic","sans-serif";color:#ff8000" lang="EN-US">Guest Editors<u></u><u></u></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Please
direct any correspondence before submission to the guest
editors:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Michael
Neff, <a href="mailto:mpneff@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">mpneff@ucdavis.edu</a>, University of California, Davis<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"ZapfDingbatsStd","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">_ </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">Catherine
Pelachaud, <a href="mailto:catherine.pelachaud@telecomparistech.fr" target="_blank">catherine.pelachaud@telecompar<wbr>istech.fr</a>, CNRS-LTCI,
Telecom-ParisTech<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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articles submitted to </span><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-MediumItalic","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">IEEE
CG&A </span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"StoneSansStd-Medium","sans-serif";color:black" lang="EN-US">should
not exceed 8,000 words, including the main text, abstract,
keywords,
bibliography, biographies, and table text, where a page is
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Articles should include no more than 10 figures or images.
Each 1/4 page figure,
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tables, images,
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Furthermore, avoid an excessive number
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