AAAI-08 AI Video Competition


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http://www.aivideo.org (here)
Call for Videos (pdf)

Description | Video Formats | Submissions | Reviewing Criteria | Awards | Dates | Sponsors | PC | Links | FAQ | Inspirations

Accepted Videos

Base on the Program Committee's reviews, we have completed the process for determining which of the 36 submitted videos are accepted and, among these, which are nominated for the 6 award categories. We accepted 24 submissions, and conditionally accepted 4 more. Please see our Accepted Videos page for details.

Description

As a sequel to the successful AAAI-07 AI Video Competition, AAAI now solicits submissions for the 2nd annual video competition! Its goal is to show the World how much fun AI is by documenting exciting artificial intelligence advances in research, education, and application. The rules are simple: Compose a short video about an exciting AI project, and narrate it so that it is accessible to a broad online audience. Accepted videos will be screened in the AAAI-08 registration area on Tuesday, 14 July 2008. During that evening's session, the developers of the best videos will be formally presented with awards. We strongly encourage student participation. So: go ahead and make a cool online video about your AI project, and get a ton of attention!

Video Formats

Either 1 minute (max) short video or a 5 minute (max) long video, with English narration (or Enlgish subtitles). Consider combining screen shots, interviews, and video of a system in action. Make the video self-contained, so that newcomers to AI can understand and learn from it. We encourage a good sense of humor, but will only accept submissions with serious AI content. For example, we welcome submissions of videos that: This is an incomplete list. No matter what your choice, creativity is encouraged!

Submissions

T-shirts: All developers of submitted videos will receive a t-shirt, available from the AAAI registration desk. These have been donated by the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project (dark red, they read "AI in Motion" on the back and have "AAAI-08" inside a logo for a camera lens on the front).

Submission process: Submit your video by placing it at a publicly-accessible www site & notifying the co-chairs by email:


Please complete the following submission form and include it with your video submission. This form requests the following:

  1. Date submitted
  2. Video developer(s)/author(s) names
  3. Institution(s)
  4. Email(s) for correspondence
  5. Title of submission
  6. Video format used (e.g., WMV, AVI)
  7. Length (in minutes & seconds)
  8. URL where the downloadable submisison is located
  9. Size (in MB)
  10. Is the first/primary author a student?
  11. Should this be considered for Best Educational Video?

Educational Video Track: As part of the AI Teaching Forum, we are holding a special track for Educational Videos in this year's competition. These videos are intended for use in the classroom. Michael Bowling (University of Alberta) is managing this track. If you want your submission to be considered for the award in this track, please respond "Yes" to the final question in the submission form.

Content Constraint: Submitted videos must not contain any copyrighted video, audio, or characters.

AAAI Forms: Authors of accepted videos will be requested to sign and FAX or email electronically signed copies of some forms to AAAI per the instructions on this page. As to which form to use, AAAI requests a signed Copyright form, although the video distribution license should be fine for anyone who cannot sign the copyright form.

Reviewing Criteria

The submitted videos will each be reviewed by a subset of the program committee, whose names are listed below. The reviewing criteria include (from most to least-weighted)
  1. Relevance to AI (research, instruction, and/or application)
  2. Degree of excitement: Entertainment value, enticing, novelty, etc.
  3. Educational content
  4. Presentation
  5. Understandable to novices

Awards

As mentioned above, all developers will receive a t-shirt donated by the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project.

In addition, the best videos in each category will receive awards, including:

  1. A Shakey: A trophy named in honor of SRI's Shakey.
  2. iPods (donated by the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project)
  3. Cash awards (amount to be determined)

Award Categories (tentative)

Other categories may be added at the discretion of the co-chairs.

Special Awards: This years's ceremony may include a Special Achievement Award. The Program Committee will make all decisions concerning any additional awards and recipients.

Key Dates

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the co-sponsors of the prizes for this inagural event: Thanks also to the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project for providing some of the awards. Finally, we thank members of the Jozef Stefan Institute, through support from the PASCAL project, for hosting these videos. Also, many thanks to Knexus Research Corporation for providing a mirror location.

Program Committee

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Inspirations

Initial discussions towards this event took place at the March 2007 meeting of the AAAI Executive Council. Inspirations for this event include, in addition to the availability of videos at popular www sites, existing AAAI competitions, the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project, and early videos of Shakey, a robot developed by SRI that is an inductee in the Robot Hall of Fame.