<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><h1 dir="ltr" data-mce-style="line-height: 1.47; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 25pt;" style="line-height: 1.47; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 25pt;"><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Montserrat; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: Montserrat; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Call for Workshops and Tutorials</h1><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://casa2019.sciencesconf.org/ <span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CASA 2019 is the 32nd annual scientific gathering on a wide variety of technologies in the context of computer animation and social agents. It is organised this year in Paris on July 1st-3rd, 2019, by Sorbonne (France), in cooperation with ACM-SIGGRAPH, under guidance of the Computer Graphics Society (CGS). Workshops and tutorials will be held on July 3rd.<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the last years the techniques of neural networks and deep learning have found many applications in the creation of virtual characters and social robots. In parallel, the wide development of VR applications has also revived the need for personalised avatars (realistic or not) for users to embody into. The workshop in CASA 2019 would therefore like to focus particularly on these challenges, with the goal to increase the user experience. In this perspective, CASA 2019 seeks proposals on topics of interest of the workshops and tutorials include, but are not limited to:<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neural Networks and Deep Learning for virtual characters and social robots</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Automatic Avatar Creation</li></ul><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission Information<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than four pages on A4 sized paper in length, and should be in text or PDF format. It should contain the following information:<ul style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" data-mce-style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. A title and brief (two-page max) description of the topic and content.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. The desired length (half day or full day).</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. The names, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the organizers with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. A list of potential members of the program committee with an indication of which members have already agreed.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">5. A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop or tutorial.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. A description of special requirements for technical needs.</li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;" data-mce-style="list-style-type: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </li></ul><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please submit workshop and tutorial proposals to the workshop chairs (kruhland@tcd.ie and ludovic.hoyet@inria.fr) by April 29th, 2019.<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Important Dates<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">April 29th, 2019: Workshop proposal due<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 15th, 2019: Notification of acceptance<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 3rd, 2019: Workshops and tutorials<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Workshop Chairs<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kerstin Ruhland (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" data-mce-style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Merriweather; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ludovic Hoyet (Inria, France) </div></div> <div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><div><img src="cid:a1bda386e0a541cde21afed91018f99149237efc@zimbra" data-mce-src="https://zimbra.inria.fr/home/ludovic.hoyet@inria.fr/Briefcase/casa.jpg" doc="Briefcase/casa.jpg"></div></div></div></body></html>