Call for Video - GALA Event - Annual festival to showcase the latest animated lifelike agents - ACM IVA 2021

Submission deadline: August 27, 2021

Notification: September 3, 2021

Final Video: September 7, 2021

GALA Event: September 17, 2021

This event was planned to be held in the University of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto. However, due to the influence of Covid-19, the conference format will be virtual.

Overview

The GALA, “Gathering of Animated Lifelike Agents,” is an annual event to showcase the latest animated lifelike agents created by university students, academic and/or industrial research groups. The goals of the GALA include:

• Providing a forum to present and evaluate the state-of-the-art in the technology of virtual agents and innovative applications;

• Disseminating research by establishing a GALA Gallery of virtual agents for study and re-use;

• Stimulating people to work on virtual agents.

An international jury will select entries for the GALA Gallery that will be established on the IVA 2021 website. In the event, a Jury Award and Audience Award will be chosen among the selected entries. The awards will be announced on this page on the last day of the conference.

Submission details

We invite submissions including a video showcase of projects involving animated lifelike virtual agents. The submissions may also include particular applications of the agents as well as tools and methods for their development. The submission is open to students, industry and academic institutions. You are strongly encouraged to submit a GALA video even if you have already submitted a paper or poster with similar content.

The submission is a one-page PDF including author names, affiliations, a small description and main contribution of the video, details of the encoding and a download link for the video. The videos should not be longer than 5 minutes.

Please send the submissions to GALA chair:

Nihan Karatas karatas@mirai.nagoya-u.ac.jp