IJCAI-09 AI Video Competition

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Description

Spring 2009: Following the AAAI-07 and AAAI-08 AI Video Competitions, IJCAI now solicits submissions for the 3rd 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. We strongly encourage student participation. So: go ahead and make a cool online video about your AI project, and get a ton of attention!

Summer 2009: On the evening of 14 July 2009 (7:00pm-7:30pm) at IJCAI-09 in the East Pavilion (immediately after the Computers and Thought lectures), we held an awards ceremony to celebrate the nominees of the best video awards. The developers of the winners were formally presented with trophies in a ceremony that resembles the Oscars.

Accepted Videos and Award Nominations

We're delighted to announce the Accepted Videos and Award Nominations for this competition. The Program Committee accepted 33 of the 39 submissions, among which 16 were nominated in 1 or more award categories. Voting for the awards will be conducted by the PC, with the winners announced at IJCAI-09. We'll have a fun, open-to-the-public awards ceremony there, full of surprise and intrigue. We invite you and your accompanying family and friends to attend!

Announcement of Awards

Trophies, named Shakeys after SRI's pioneering robot, were announced and presented by Co-Chairs Michael Bowling and David W. Aha, and four guest speakers, for the following category winners at the IJCAI-09 AI Video Competition's Awards Ceremony, which took place on 14 July 2009 at IJCAI-09 in the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA. A few hundred people attended the awards ceremony. The winners for all the awards were in attendance (or assigned proxies to attend for them), except for two awards, for which pre-recorded video acceptance speeches were screened. Thanks to our guest speakers (Eric Horvitz, Chad Jenkins, Dunja Mladenic, and Ramon Lopez de Mantars), assistant Matthew Klenk, and everyone else involved for their help in creating this ceremony. Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

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! (Please note: The developers of previous, award-winning AI Videos typically highlighted humor, background music/tracks, and/or carefully selected movie clips to make their presentations come alive and interest our prospective viewers and PC members.)

Submissions

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


Please also 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. Description of submission (1 paragraph)
  7. Video format used (e.g., WMV, AVI)
  8. Length (in minutes & seconds)
  9. URL where the downloadable submission is located
  10. Size (in MB)
  11. Is the first/primary author a student?

Content Constraint: Submitted videos must not contain any video, audio, or characters that is not the author's own work, or any video, audio, or characters that the author has not obtained written permission to distribute.

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
We welcome videos on either "older" or more "current" research/projects. Our only request is that they not be videos (or nearly identical to videos) that were accepted at previous AI Video Competitions.

Awards

The best videos in each category will receive a sparkling trophy named a Shakey in honor of SRI's Shakey robot and its pioneering video.

Award Categories (tentative):

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

Key Dates

Sponsors

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsors of this inaugural IJCAI event, without whom this could not be held.

Program Committee

  1. Aha, David (NRL, USA), Co-chair
  2. Balch, Tucker (Georgia Tech, USA)
  3. Bowling, Michael (U. Alberta, Canada), Co-Chair
  4. Chang, Yu-Han (USC ISI, USA)
  5. Christensen, Anders (ISCTE, Portugal)
  6. Crabbe, Frederick (USNA, USA)
  7. Diuk Wasser, Carlos (Rutgers U., USA)
  8. Doherty, Patrick (Linkoping U., Sweden)
  9. Dorigo, Marco (U. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  10. Grobelnik, Marko (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  11. Gupta, Kalyan Moy (Knexus Research, USA)
  12. Hauert, Sabine (EPFL, Switzerland)
  13. Jermol, Mitja (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
  14. Jhala, Arnav (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  15. Kuter, Ugur (U. Maryland, USA)
  16. Lee-Urban, Stephen (Lehigh U., USA)
  17. van Lent, Michael (Soar Technology, USA)
  18. Muñoz-Avila, Héctor (Lehigh U., USA)
  19. Musliner, David (SIFT, USA)
  20. O'Grady, Rehan (U. Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
  21. Perrault, Ray (SRI, USA)
  22. Pickett, Marc (UMBC, USA)
  23. Postma, Eric (Tilburg U., The Netherlands)
  24. Riedl, Mark (Georgia Tech, USA)
  25. Riedmiller, Martin (U. Osnabrück, Germany)
  26. Stanley, Ken (U. Central Florida, USA)
  27. Stavens, David (Stanford U., USA)
  28. Stoica, Adrian (Cal Tech., JPL, USA)
  29. Stone, Peter (UT Austin, USA)
  30. Sukthankar, Gita (U. Central Florida, USA)
  31. Thrun, Sebastian (Stanford U., USA)
  32. van Velsen, Martin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
  33. Watson, Ian (U. Auckland, New Zealand)
  34. Wiratunga, Nirmalie (Robert Gordon U., Scotland)
  35. Youngblood, Michael (UNC Charlotte, USA)

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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.