COMPUTER ANIMATION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS

Comp. Anim. Virtual Worlds 2005; 16: 137–139Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/cav.111* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Foreword

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This special issue contains 33 articles selected from the International Confer-

ence on Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA) 2005. This conference

was founded by the Computer Graphics Society and held in Philadelphia in

1988. Since then, it has been held in Geneva (1999), Philadelphia (2000), Seoul

(2001), Geneva (2002), New Jersey (2003) and Geneva (2004). CASA 2005 was

the eighteenth conference and it was held from the 17th to 19th of October,

2005, in Hong Kong.

The CASA 2005 Program Committee received 120 high quality paper

submissions from around the world. Based on a double-blind review the

highest quality papers were selected according to their review rating, re-

viewers’ comments and their relevancy to computer animation and social

agents. The final 33 articles selected for inclusion in this journal special issue

represent an acceptance rate of less than 28%.

The main topics covered by this special issue are listed as below:

* Collision Detection and Deformable Objects

* Motion Capture and Retrieval

* Virtual Humans and Social Agents

* Natural Phenomena and Special Effects

* Image, Color, and Illumination in Animation

* Animating Geometrical Models

The Conference Committee would like to thank the International Program

Committee for spending their valuable time and effort in the review process,

and the organizing committee, in particular, Ki-Wan Kwok, for their contribu-

tions to this conference in many different ways. Wewould also like to thank the

keynote speakers: Craig Gotsman, Baining Guo, and Jessica Hodgins, for

presenting their insightful keynote speeches.

Finally, we would like to thank the K.C. Wong Education Foundation and

Department of Computing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for their

financial sponsorships to this conference.

GEORGE BACIU AND MING LIN

Program Co-chairs

RYNSON W. H. LAU AND DANIEL THALMANN

Conference Co-chairs

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CASA2005Committee

Conference Co-chairsRynson W.H. Lau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Daniel Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

Program Co-chairs

George Baciu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Ming C. Lin (University of North Carolina (UNC), USA)

Local Arrangement Co-chairs

Taku Komura (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Frederick Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Publication and Media Chair

Ki-Wan Kwok (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Treasurer and Local Tour

Thomas K. S. Choi (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

International Program Committee

Elisabeth Andre (University of Augsburg, Germany)

George Baciu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Norman Badler (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Gladimir Baranoski (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Tom Calvert (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

Yiorgos Chrysanthou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)

Angelica de Antonio (University Polytechnic of Madrid, Spain)

Stephane Donikian (Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires, France)

David Ebert (Purdue University, USA)

Francois Faure (Universite Joseph Fourier, France)

Ron Fedkiw (Stanford University, USA)

Baining Guo (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Horace H.S. Ip (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Prem Kalra (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Arie E. Kaufman (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)

John Keyser (Texas A&M University, USA)

Young Kim (Ewha University, Korea)

Hyeong-Seok Ko (Seoul National University, South Korea)

Taku Komura (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Tosiyasu Laurence Kunii (Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan)

Shigeru Kuriyama (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)

Rynson W.H. Lau (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Wonsook Lee (University of Ottawa, Canada)

James Lester (North Carolina State University, USA)

Frederick Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

Ming C. Lin (University of North Carolina, USA)

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Dinesh Manocha (University of North Carolina, USA)

Laurent Moccozet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

Ahmad Nasri (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)

Luciana Porcher Nedel (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Carol O’Sullivan (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Masaki Oshita (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)

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Igor Pandzic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

Rick Parent (Ohio State University, USA)

Qunsheng Peng (Zhejiang University, China)

Helmut Pottmann (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

Catherine Pelachaud (Universite de Paris 8, France)

Jon Rokne (University of Calgary, Canada)

Deborah Silver (Rutgers University, USA)

Jos Stam (Alias Systems Corp.)

Hanqiu Sun (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Daniel Thalmann (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

Michiel van de Panne (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Frederic Vexo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland)

John A. Vince (Bournemouth University, UK)

Ying-qing Xu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Shuntaro Yamazaki (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)

Michael Zyda (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)

External Reviewers

Elisabetta Bevacqua

Joao Luiz Dihl Comba (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Manuel Menezes de Oliveira Neto (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Bradley William Kimmel (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Aravind Krishnaswamy (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Marios Kyriakou (University of Cyprus)

Michael Lam (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Robson Rodrigues Lemos (Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Brazil)

Maurizio Mancini

Christopher Peters

Mauro Steigleder (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Soteris Stylianou (University of Cyprus)

Georgios Stylianou (University of Cyprus)

Wenping Wang (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

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