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<p style="direction: ltr; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We are pleased to announce the
<b>Call for Papers</b> for <b>AINIME: AI for Animation</b>, a workshop to be held at
<b>WACV 2027</b>.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AINIME will bring together researchers and practitioners working on AI for animation, with topics covering the
full production pipeline for natural and anime-style videos, including:</span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Image- and text-to-video animation.</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Motion control with diffusion models and world models.</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Temporal coherence, identity preservation, and style consistency.</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Evaluation metrics and benchmarks for animated and natural video.</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Anime restoration, super-resolution, colorization, captioning, and post-production.</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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Manga, comics, and anime applications, including content understanding, generation, enhancement, localization, accessibility, and creative-production tools.</div>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation">Responsible and production-aware creative AI.</p>
</li></ul>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We invite
<b>regular archival papers of 5–8 pages, excluding references</b>, following the WACV formatting and submission guidelines. Accepted regular papers will be published in the
<b>WACV 2027 Workshop Proceedings</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Important deadline</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The submission deadline:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>October 15, 2026</b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions must be made through the official AINIME OpenReview venue:
</span><span style="font-family: pplxSans, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 37, 30); background-color: rgba(39, 26, 0, 0.035); text-transform: none;"> </span><span style="font-family: pplxSans, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 37, 30); text-transform: none;"><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2027/Workshop/AINIME" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-outlook-id="34f3dc25-e1c8-4f69-9047-a6a96553cd2d">https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/WACV/2027/Workshop/AINIME</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Authors should consult the official WACV website and workshop guidelines for detailed information regarding
formatting, anonymization, submission requirements, and important dates: </span>
<span style="font-family: pplxSans, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 37, 30);"><a href="https://wacv.thecvf.com" data-outlook-id="30457165-fcaa-4cec-a24c-eaf3b2fa4ebb" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://wacv.thecvf.com</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anime Restoration Challenge</span></h2>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">AINIME will also host the
<b>Anime Restoration Challenge on Re-Anime600</b>, focusing on anime video restoration, upscaling, and quality enhancement.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Participants in the challenge will also have the opportunity to submit their work to the AINIME workshop. Further
details regarding the challenge tasks, evaluation protocol, submission procedure, and eligibility will be announced shortly on the official workshop website.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The AINIME website is currently
<b>work in progress</b> and will be updated soon with the complete challenge information, important dates, guidelines, and program details:</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: pplxSans, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(39, 37, 30); background-color: rgba(39, 26, 0, 0.035);"><a href="https://mv-lab.github.io/ainime/" data-outlook-id="7122cead-cfd1-4b44-9ace-4df67dd9e657" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>https://mv-lab.github.io/ainime/</u></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We warmly invite submissions from both academia and industry and would appreciate it if you could share this
announcement with colleagues and research groups working on animation, anime and manga analysis, video generation, restoration, quality assessment, motion control, and related areas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best regards,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>The AINIME Organizing Committee</b></span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
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<p role="presentation"><b>Marcos V. Conde</b> — University of Würzburg, Germany; Tenkai AI</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation"><b>Georgia Fargetta</b> — University of Catania, Italy</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation"><b>Jeonghun Baek</b> — The University of Tokyo, Japan</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation"><b>Ziteng Cui</b> — The University of Tokyo, Japan</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation"><b>Jin Yeying</b> — Tencent, Singapore</p>
</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<p role="presentation"><b>Julian Tanke</b> — Sony AI</p>
</li></ul>
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