[Imageworld] CFP: CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS)

[Remco Veltkamp]

        Call for Papers

       CASA Workshop on 3D Advanced Media In Gaming And Simulation (3AMIGAS)
                   16 June 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
                      http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/3amigas/

                        in conjunction with the
     22nd Annual Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA)
                   http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/CASA09
                           
                 submission deadline: 24 March 2009

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*Description*

This workshop is about the creation and use of advanced 3D media in 
gaming and
simulation. Simulations and games take place in virtual worlds. Such 
worlds can
either be models of existing environments or can be fictitious. They can 
have a
very realistic look-and-feel or they can be imaginary. To create 
adaptive game
play and simulations, dynamic world models are required that can 
automatically
be adapted to changing requirements.
Virtual worlds are inhabited by virtual characters. These characters 
must behave
in natural ways, based on the way they sense their environment and based 
on their
own internal emotional state and relations to other characters. The virtual
characters should be able to adapt to the situation at hand. They should 
react
and plan their actions, and smart objects should react to interaction.
In augmented worlds, natural navigation and interaction is a real 
challenge due
to limitations in multimodal control and feedback technology and due to 
limitations
in the understanding and true-to-life modeling. Traditional interfaces 
are generally
not natural and demand substantial cognitive resources. All these issues 
are aspects
of advanced 3D media.
     
The event is organized and sponsored by the NWO/ICT-Regie project GATE, 
and the
EU FP7 IST project FOCUS K3D.

Autors are invited to submit a paper of 6-10 pages to 3amigas at cs.uu.nl, 
in the
short paper format of CASA, see http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/casa09/formats.

Topics include, but are not limited to:
* Navigation in games and simulations
* Smart objects
* Formalization and representation of shape semantics
* Virtual characters
* Content-based 3D retrieval and classification
* Automatic creation of imaginary worlds
* Semantics-driven 3D visualization
* 3D media ontologies
* Automatic world generation based on real data
* Semantics-based 3D modelling
* Interaction in 3D worlds
   
At the workshop there will be a presentation about the results of a 
survey of
the use of knowledge intensive 3D media in Gaming and Simulation.

The contributions will be reviewed by the program committee and the 
accepted
ones will be presented during the workshop. The papers will be made 
available
in an own workshop proceedings, separate from the CASE proceedings. We 
will seek
opportunities to publish the best papers for a journal special issue. 
Authors
are free publish their paper themselves. 

*Important dates*
Submissions: 24 March 2009
Notifications: 24 April 2009
Camera-ready: 10 May 2009
Workshop: 16 June 2009

*Location*
The workshop is held on 16 June in conjunction with the 22nd Annual
Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA), Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. The 3AMIGAS workshop will take place at the Trippenhuis
(the same location as the CASA conference). See the CASA website for travel
and lodging information http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/casa09

*Registration*
Participation is free of charge. Workshop participants must register at the
workshop website http://www.cs.uu.nl/events/3amigas/

*Workshop Chairs*
Arjan Egges, Wolfgang Huerst, Remco Veltkamp (Utrecht University, The 
Netherlands)

*Program committee*
Rafael Bidarra, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Catherine Houstis, CERETETH, Greece
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Michela Mortara, CNR-IMATI, Italy
Roland Geraerts, Utrecht University
Stijn Oomes, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Pietro Pala, University of Florence
Laura Papaleo, Univ. Genoa, Italy
Quak Ewald, SINTEF, Norway
Patrick Salamin, EPFL, Switzerland
Michela Spagnuolo, CNR-IMATI, Italy
Andre Stork, Fraunhofer, Gemany
Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
Stephane Marchand Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland




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Remco Veltkamp, http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/remcov/
Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University
Padualaan 14, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands
phone: +31-30-2534091, fax: +31-30-2534619
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