Joint Call For Papers

We invite submissions of full papers describing completed or ongoing relevant research (8 pages including references); short papers (4 pages including references), and posters (1 page) may be submitted.

Position papers are also welcome.

We invite papers from 4 main themes surrounding intelligent narrative and cinematography:

Computational Models of Narrative Generation

  • Narrative discourse generation
  • Computable narrative models inspired by cognitive science, narratology, drama studies, and related disciplines
  • Drama management for interactive narratives
  • Applications of intelligent narrative technologies, including education and healthcare
  • Virtual characters that converse, narrate, perform, and behave believably
  • Narrative knowledge acquisition
  • Computational creativity in narrative systems

Computational Models of Narrative and Film Experience

  • Models and measures of engagement in interactive narrative
  • Cognitive models of film perception
  • User studies and deployed intelligent narrative and smart camera systems
  • Human-computer interaction with narrative, film, and video technologies
  • Narrative presence and engagement in virtual environments
  • Narrative-related affect and emotion
  • Evaluation of methodologies and user experience

Narrative Interpretation and Multimodal Analysis

  • Computational understanding, analysis, and summarization of film and narratives, including natural language processing and computer vision
  • Interaction-oriented video and narrative annotation tools and corpora
  • Automatic video analysis of movies
  • Analysis of film style

Intelligent Cinematography and Editing

  • Virtual cinematography for narratives
  • Authoring tools for intelligent video and narrative technologies, including collaborative authoring
  • Camera path planning and visibility
  • Automatic video editing
  • Movie pre-visualization
  • Virtual reality and augmented reality movie making
  • Natural user interfaces for cinematography and video editing
  • Re-cinematography, re-lighting and re-framing of live-action video
  • Computer-assisted multi-camera production
  • Interactive and automatic camera control
  • Game cinematics, cinematic replays, and machinima
  • Immersive and interactive cinema
  • Expressive performance of virtual characters

Submission instructions:

Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication, and must follow the CEUR paper1p (single column with page numbers) format. The author kit can be downloaded here.

Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiide18 (please submit to special track INTWICED)