Special Issue - WVH 2025 - Best Papers

 

Call for Papers

The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) invites the best papers from the research papers track of the I Workshop on Virtual Humans (WVH 2025) to submissions for a Special Issue on Virtual Humans and Applications. The issue will feature an extended version of high-quality research on aspects of computer graphics, animation, computer vision, human perception, and AI-driven behaviors. This Special Issue highlights mature research addressing the modeling, animation, and interaction with realistic digital humans.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

● Perception and Uncanny Valley – How realism affects user comfort and trust; addressing biases (gender, skin tone).
● Bias and Diversity – Inclusive representation in datasets and models for virtual humans.
● AI-Driven Behaviors – Using LLMs and cognitive architectures for personality, memory, and conversation.
● Interaction and Simulation – Social interactions, crowd simulation, AR/VR integration.
● Realistic Animation and Simulation – Capturing and animating motion, facial and body details, real-time presence.

These submissions must include at least 30% new contributions relative to the version previously published in WVH 2025 and will undergo an expedited review by the JBCS editorial board. The extended version's title and abstract should differ from the conference paper's. The authors should explicitly mention the WVH 2025 paper in the document by stating that the submitted version is an extended and revised version.

Number of invited papers: 4

All papers must be written in English and prepared using the official JBCS LaTeX template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgfkmgfqzbdz). Author guidelines are available on the JBCS website (https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions). The authors should submit a cover letter explaining the modifications made to the conference paper in the extended version, together with the extended version of the manuscript.

Important Dates:
- April 10th , 2026 - submission of extended versions.
- May 30th 2026 - feedback of the first round of reviews to authors.
- June 30th - submission of the revised version.
- August 30th – final notification to the authors
- September 30th - camera-ready submission.

Editors:
● Paulo Ricardo Knob (PUCRS, Brazil)
● Victor Flávio de Andrade Araujo (UNIT/PUCRS, Brazil)
● Soraia Raupp Musse (PUCRS, Brazil)