<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (ACM SAP) </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">provides an intimate forum for researchers who combine knowledge, methods, and insights from perception research and computer science disciplines. As of now, ACM SAP 2021 is planned to be held as a hybrid conference in Rennes (France) with an online option on the 16th and 17th of September, 2021. Although we encourage in-person attendance, the organizers plan to have online streaming and interaction options for virtual attendance for both attendees and speakers.</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission.</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We invite submissions of original work in all areas of applied perception, including all sensory modalities (vision, haptics, acoustics, proprioception, etc.). We welcome short and long papers submissions respectively up to 4 and 8 pages (not including references or appendices). </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Details here:</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://sap.acm.org/2021/" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://sap.acm.org/2021/</span></a><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">] </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Invited ACM TAP Journal Publication. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Under an agreement with the ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP) and the ACM Publications Board, the strongest accepted papers will be offered publication as full papers in the ACM journal TAP (instead of appearing in the proceedings). </span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Submission deadlines</span></p><ul class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 25th: Abstract submission</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 27th: Paper submission</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 7th: Notifications</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 16pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">July 18th: Camera ready version due for </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAP</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> papers; revised manuscripts due for </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TAP</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> papers </span></p></li></ul><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Topics of interest </span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SAP welcomes submissions related to all topics relevant to</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">both perception and computer science such as: </span></p><ul class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Application of </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">perceptual research</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to any area of </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">computer science</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including but not limited to:</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">modeling, rendering, animation;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">virtual environments, characters, avatars;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">processing information from artificial sensors;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">representation of data, communication of data, interaction with data;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applications of </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">computer science</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to any area of </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">perception</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including but not limited to:</span></div></li></ul><ul class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">modeling natural perceptual systems;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre; margin-left: 19pt;"><div class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">simulating natural perceptual systems;</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" aria-level="1" class="" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" class="" style="line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 16pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emerging topics such as animal perception, privacy and security, novel sensors, studies that combine perception and computing research toward applications to healthcare, deep space exploration, cultural and ecological preservation, etc.</span></p></li></ul><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.7142857142857142; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 16pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sincerely,</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Program Chairs</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eakta Jain, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Florida, USA </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anne-Hélène Olivier, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Rennes 2, France </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conference Chairs</span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Massimiliano Di Luca, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Birmingham, UK </span></div><div class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 8pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Katja Zibrek, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Inria Rennes, France </span></div><p dir="ltr" class="" style="font-family: Slack-Lato, appleLogo, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt;"><a href="mailto:acm.sap2021@gmail.com" class="" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">acm.sap2021@gmail.com</span></a></p></body></html>