At the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA

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COMPUTER ANIMATION 2000 CONFERENCE

The Computer Graphics Society (CGS) and the IEEE Computer Society are pleased to announce the organization of COMPUTER ANIMATION 2000 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This 13th annual conference on Computer Animation is organized by the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation (HMS) at the University of Pennsylvania - USA.

CA FILM FESTIVAL LINK

SHERATON UNIVERSITY CITY HOTEL INFORMATION

The beautiful Sheraton University City Hotel in Philadephia, PA has been selected
to provide accomodations for CA2000. Special rates of $114.00 per room have been arranged for
CA2000 participants. Please click on the link above to find out how to make reservations and please
remember to identify yourself with CA2000 to receive the special rate.

Reservations should be made by APRIL 18, 2000

On-Site or Late Registration: IEEE Members: $240
                                              Nonmembers:   $300
                                       Full time Students:   $150

TUTORIAL:
Advance Tutorial Fee: IEEE Members: $175
                                     Nonmembers:  $220

On-Site or Late Tutorial: IEEE Members: $200
                                         Nonmembers:   $250

No Tutorial Fees for full-time students. Proof of Student ID required.

On site registration is effective on April 30, 2000.
 

Karen Carter
karen@central.cis.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 898-1488
Fax: (215) 573-7453

Conference Program: May 3 - 5, 2000
 

• Wednesday, May 3 : Tutorial: Emobided Agents and Human Modeling                                           9:00 am -  4:45pm       Room 23, Moore Bldg., 200 S. 33rd St.

• Thursday, May 4 :    Day 1 of Conference Proceedings                                                              9:00 am - 4:30 pm     Location to be announced                                                                            6:00 pm                     CA2000 Banquet                Inn at Penn, 3600 Sansom St.                          9:00 pm                     CA2000 Film Festival         Heilmeier Hall, Towne Bldg.

• Friday, May 5 :        Day 2 of Conference Proceedings                                                                 9:00 am - 5:00 pm     Location to be announced

May 3, 2000 (Wednesday) - Tutorial

Embodied Agents and Human Modeling

9:00   - 10:30 am:   Daniel Thalmann
10:30 - 10:45 am:    coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 noon: Norm Badler (and/or students)
12 noon - 1:30 pm:   lunch
1:30 - 3:00 pm:         Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (substitutes)
3:00 - 3:15 pm:        break
3:15 - 4:45 pm:        Dimitris Metaxas

May 4, 2000 (Thursday) - Day I

9-10:40am Session 1: Physics Based Modeling     Chair: Dimitris Metaxas

* Integrated System for Skin Deformation
 - Cordier, Magnenat-Thalmann

* Simulating 2D Tearing Phenomena for a Interactive Medical Surgery Simulators
 - Boux de Casson, Laugier

* Adaptive Simulation of Soft Bodies in Real-Time
 - Debunne, Desbrun, Cani, Barr

* Moving Finite Elements for Simulating Creasing Phenomena of Nearly
 Unstretchable Sheet Materials
 - Gotoda

10:40-11am  Break 1

11am-12:40  Session 2: Animation               Chair: Norman Badler
 

* Algorithms for Generating Motion Trajectories Described by Prepositions
 - Xu, Badler

* Animating by Multi-level Sampling
 - Pullen, Bregler

* Image Based Animation from Learned Visual-Motor Models
 - Jagersand

* High-Degree Temporal Antialiasing
 - Dachille, Kaufman

12:40- 1:40pm  LUNCH

1:45 - 2:30pm  INVITED TALK: Computer Animation: Algorithms and Techniques A
                           Review - Richard Parent 1:45 - 2:30pm

2:30 - 2:45pm  BREAK 2

2:45 - 4:30pm  Session 3: Motion Capture      Chair: Adrian Hilton

* An Integrated Approach towards the Representation, Manipulation and Reuse
 of Pre-recorded Motion - Sudarsky, House

* Motion Processing Using Variable Harmonic Components
 - Gomes, Velho, de Silva, Goldenstein

* Sensor Fusion for Motion Capture System Based on System Identification
 - Park, Jeong, Kim, Wohn

* Skeleton-Based Motion Capture for Robust Reconstruction of Human Motion
 - Herda, Fua, Plankers, Boulic, D. Thalmann
 

May 5, 20000 (Friday) - Day II
 

9:00-10:40pm Session 4: Human Animation     Chair: Daniel Thalmann
 

* Planning and Motion Control in Lifelike Gesture: A Refined Approach
 - Kopp, Wachsmuth

* Interpreting Movement Manner
 - Zhao, Costa, Badler

* A Thin Shell Volume for Modeling Human Hair
 - Kim, Neumann

* Virtual humans animation in informed urban environments
 - Thomas, Donikian

10:40-11am Break 1

11 - 12:20        INVITED TALK

12:30 - 1:30     LUNCH

1:30- 2:45pm  Session 5: Modeling           Chair: Hong Qin

* Dynamic Sculpting and Animation of Free-form Subdivision Solids
 - McDonnell, Qin

* Voxel-based Sculpting and Keyframe Animation System
 - Chandru, Mahesh, Manivannan, Manolhar

* Space-Time and Higher Dimensional Modeling for Animation
 - Fausett, Pasko, Adzhiev

* Layered Animation using Displacement Maps
 - Smith, Sun, Hilton, Illingworth
 

2:45-3:00pm  Break 2

3:00pm-4:40pm  Session 6: Animation Systems      Chair: Rick Parent
 

* Accurate Collision Response on Polygonal Meshes
 - Volino, Magnenat-Thalmann

* Fast, Fully-Automated Generation of Control Skeletons for Use in Animation
 - Wade, Parent

* Towards an Architecture for Artificial Animated Creatures
 - Garcia, da Silva, Grupen

* An Interactive Generalized Motion Simulator (GMS) in an Object-Oriented
 Framework
 - Son, Kim

 4:45 - 5pm CLOSING REMARKS
 

Conference Chairs

Norman I. Badler
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
badler@central.cis.upenn.edu

Daniel Thalmann
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Lausanne, Switzerland
thalmann@eldi.epfl.ch

Program Chairs

Dimitris Metaxas (USA)
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
dnm@central.cis.upenn.edu

Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
University of Geneva
Geneva, Switzerland
thalmann@cui.unige.ch

CA'00 Program Committee

N. Ayache, INRIA, France
N. Badler, UPENN, USA
A. Blake, Microsoft, UK
M. Brand, Mitsubishi, USA
A. Bruderlin, SONY, USA
I. Carlbom, Lucent, USA
T-S. Chua, N. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
D. DeCarlo, Rutgers, USA
J. Duncan, Yale Univ., USA
D. Ebert, UMBC, USA
I. Essa, GATECH, USA
N. Foster, PDI, USA
P. Fua, EPFL, Switzerland
M. Gleicher, Univ. Wisconsin - Madison, USA
C. Bregler, Stanford, USA
J. Gomes, IMPA, Brazil
L. Guibas, Stanford, USA
D. Haumann, PIXAR, USA
J. Hodgins, GATECH, USA
R. Herpers, U. of Applied Sciences Rhein-Sieg, Germany
I. Kakadiaris, Univ. of Houston, USA
P. Kalra, IIT-Delhi, INDIA
A. Kaufman, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
T. L. Kunii, Japan
M. Lin, UNC, USA
B. Loftin, Univ. of Houston, USA
N. Magnenat-Thalmann, U. Geneva, Switzerland
D. Manocha, UNC, USA
D. Metaxas, UPENN, USA
F. Parke, Texas A&M University, USA
N. Patrikalakis, MIT, USA
Z. Popovic, U. Washington, USA
H. Qin, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
L. Rosenblum, Office of Naval Research, USA
S. Sclaroff, BU, USA
S. Y. Shin, KAIST, Korea
J. Stam, Alias Wavefront, USA
Y. Suenaga, Nagoya Univ., Japan
D. Takacs, Virtual Celebrity, USA
D. Terzopoulos, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
D. Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
M. van de Panne, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
B. Vemuri, Univ. of Florida, USA
L. Velho, IMPA, Brazil
Y. Wu, Mitsubishi, USA

Public Relations Chair
M. Costa, UPenn, USA

Local Arrangements & Registration Chair

Karen Carter
Dept. of Computer and Information Science
Univ. of Pennsylvania
200 South 33rd St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6389
Email: karen@central.cis.upenn.edu
Phone: (215) 8981488
Fax: (215) 573-7453

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