Important information: For attendees to be able to plan their trip and presentation. Detailed program will be announced sept. 27th. The conference should take place from wed. nov. 15th morning to friday 17th lunch time. Registrations will be opened as soon as we can, expect early rates up to oct. 15. We are working on rates starting from 350€ for students, which include lunches and dinners. Presenters will be able to present online, but we encourage onsite presentations. 1 full registration is mandatory for each paper, could the presentation be onsite or online. We are working on an extra social program, optional, friday afternoon and saturday to visit Saint-Malo and Mont Saint-Michel for those who are interested, for a small extra cost.

Invitation letters for VISAs: please send an email to julien.pettre@inria.fr with your name, paper id, title, passport id (as well as travel dates and itinerary if known).

Motion plays a crucial role in interactive applications, such as VR, AR, and video games. Characters move around, objects are manipulated or move due to physical constraints, entities are animated, and the camera moves through the scene. Motion is currently studied in many different research areas, including graphics and animation, game technology, robotics, simulation, computer vision, and also physics, psychology, and urban studies. Cross-fertilization between these communities can considerably advance the state-of-the-art in the area.

The goal of the Motion, Interaction and Games conference is to bring together researchers from this variety of fields to present their most recent results, to initiate collaborations, and to contribute to the establishment of the research area. The conference will consist of regular paper sessions, poster presentations, and as well as presentations by a selection of internationally renowned speakers in all areas related to interactive systems and simulation. The conference includes entertaining cultural and social events that foster casual and friendly interactions among the participants.

This year again, MIG will be held in a hybrid format, with a strong will to have you in person here in Rennes, for you to enjoy the most the conference program, face-to-face interactions with the community, the city of Rennes and the beautiful Brittany region! Nevertheless, you may choose to attend in person or to attend virtually to allow a maximum (virtual) attendance.

3RD CALL FOR PAPERS

The 16th annual ACM/SIGGRAPH conference on Motion, Interaction and Games (MIG 2023, formerly Motion in Games), an  ACM SIGGRAPH Specialized Conferences, held in cooperation with Eurographics, will take place in Rennes, France,  15th – 17th Nov 2023.

The goal of the Motion, Interaction, and Games conference is to be a platform for bringing together researchers from interactive systems and animation, and have them present their most recent results, initiate collaborations, and contribute to the advancement of the research area. The conference will consist of regular paper sessions for long and short papers, and talks by a selection of internationally renowned speakers from Academia as well as from the Industry. 

The conference organizers invite researchers to consider submitting their highest quality research for publication in MIG 2023.

Important dates

• Abstract submission: No abstract submission required*
• Long and Short Paper Submission Deadline: 7th July 2023 14th July 2023 (extended)
• Long and Short Paper Acceptance Notification: 1st September 2023 5th September 2023 7th September 23:59 AoE
• Long and Short Paper Camera Ready Deadline: 22nd September 2023

*New papers may be submitted even if no abstract was previously submitted. We already received a significant number of abstracts to facilitate the reviewing process, so no further abstract submissions are required. Thanks to those authors who submitted abstracts.

Poster

• Poster Submission Deadline: 12th September 2023 22nd September 2023 (extended)
• Poster Notification: 22nd September 2023 29th September 2023
• Final Version of Accepted Posters: 29th September 2023 TBD

Note: all submission deadlines are 23:59 AoE timezone (Anywhere on Earth).

Topics of Interest

Relevant topics include (but are not limited to):

We invite submissions of original, high-quality papers in any of the topics of interest (see above) or any related topic. Each submission should be 7-9 pages in length for a long paper,  or 4-6 pages for a short paper. References are excluded from the page limit. They will be reviewed by our international program committee for technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity. We encourage authors with content that can be fit into 6 pages to submit as a short paper and only to submit a long paper if the content requires it.

Submission Instructions

All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by our international program committee for technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity. Double-blind means that paper submissions must be anonymous and include the unique paper ID that will be assigned upon creating a submission using the online system.
Papers should not have previously appeared in, or be currently submitted to, any other conference or journal. For each accepted contribution, at least one of the authors must register for the conference.

All submissions will be considered for the Best Paper, Best Student Paper, and Best Presentation awards, which will be conferred during the conference. Authors of selected best papers will be referred (under validation) to submit extended and significantly revised versions for a Special Issue of Computers & Graphics journal.

We also invite submissions of poster papers in any of the topics of interest and related areas. Each submission should be 1-2 pages in length. Two types of work can be submitted directly for poster presentation:

• Work that has been published elsewhere but is of particular relevance to the MIG community can be submitted as a poster. This work and the venue in which it is published should be identified in the abstract;
• Work that is of interest to the MIG community but is not yet mature enough to appear as a paper.

Posters will not appear in the official MIG proceedings or in the ACM Digital library but will appear in an online database for distribution at author’s discretion. You can use any paper format, though the MIG paper format is recommended. In addition, you are welcome to submit supplementary material such as videos.

All submissions should be formatted using the SIGGRAPH formatting guidelines (sigconf). Latex template can be found here: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (for the review version, you can use the command \documentclass[sigconf, screen, review, anonymous]{acmart})

All papers and posters should be submitted electronically to their respective tracks on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mig2023

Supplementary Material

Due to the nature of the conference, we strongly encourage authors to submit supplementary materials (such as videos) with the size up to 200MB. They may be submitted electronically and will be made available to reviewers. For Video, we advise QuickTime MPEG-4 or DivX Version 6, and for still images, we advise JPG or PNG. If you use another format, you are not guaranteed that reviewers will view them. It is also allowed to have an appendix as supplementary material. These materials will accompany the final paper in the ACM Digital Library.

Keynotes

IPC

Program

Wednesday, November 15th

Learning Robust and Scalable Motion Matching with Lipschitz Continuity and Sparse Mixture of Experts.

Objective Evaluation Metric for Motion Generative Models: Validating Fréchet Motion Distance on Foot Skating and Over-smoothing Artifacts.

Motion-DVAE: Unsupervised learning for fast human motion denoising.

Reward Function Design for Crowd Simulation via Reinforcement Learning.

MeshGraphNetRP: Improving Generalization of GNN-based Cloth Simulation.

Real-time Computational Cinematographic Editing for Broadcasting of Volumetric-captured events: an Application to Ultimate Fighting.

Exploring Mid-air Gestural Interfaces for Children with ADHD.

Player Exploration Patterns in Interactive Molecular Docking with Electrostatic Visual Cues.

Heat Simulation on Meshless Crafted-Made Shapes.

Virtual Joystick Control Sensitivity and Usage Patterns in a Large-Scale Touchscreen-Based Mobile Game Study.

Thursday, November 16th

SoftDECA: Computationally Efficient Physics-Based Facial Animations

Audiovisual Inputs for Learning Robust, Real-time Facial Animation with Lip Sync

FaceDiffuser: Speech-Driven Facial Animation Synthesis Using Diffusion

MUNCH: Modelling Unique ’N Controllable Heads

Generating Emotionally Expressive Look-At Animation

Avatar Tracking Control with Featherstone’s Algorithm and Newton-Euler Formulation for Inverse Dynamics

Real-Time Conversational Gaze Synthesis for Avatars

Designing Hand-held Controller-based Handshake Interaction in Social VR and Metaverse

Effect of Avatar Clothing and User Personality on Group Dynamics in Virtual Reality

Runtime Motion Adaptation for Precise Character Locomotion

Friday, November 17th

Primal Extended Position Based Dynamics for Hyperelasticity

SwimXYZ: A large-scale dataset of synthetic swimming motions and videos

Physical Simulation of Balance Recovery after a Push

Video-Based Motion Retargeting Framework between Characters with Various Skeleton Structure

Navigating With a Defensive Agent: Role Switching for Human Automation Collaboration

Venue

A complete guide to all you need to know about lodging, transportations and other useful information will soon be uploaded.

Conference Organization

Conference Chairs

• Julien Pettré, Inria, France
• Barbara Solenthaler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Program Chairs

• Rachel McDonnell, TCD, Ireland
• Christopher Peters, KTH, Sweden

Poster Chair

• Jovane Alberto, Trinity College Dublin

Main Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Rachel McDonnell (ramcdonn (at) tcd.ie) and Christopher Peters (chpeters (at) kth.se).

Julien Pettré, Inria, France (julien.pettre (at) inria.fr)

All questions about posters should be emailed to Jovane Alberto, Trinity College Dublin (JOVANEA (at) tcd.ie)

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