AAAI-08
AI Video Competition
The Great Lake of Chicago
(Photo courtesy Trey Ratcliff)
http://www.aivideo.org
2008 Call for Videos (pdf)
Description |
Video Formats |
Submissions |
Reviewing Criteria |
Awards |
Dates |
Sponsors |
PC |
Links |
FAQ |
Inspirations
Award-Winning Videos
Trophies were awarded as follows at the 2008 AI Video Awards Ceremony in Chicago, IL on 14 July 2008 at AAAI/IAAI-08.
For details and photos, see our table of Accepted
Videos, Nominees, and Winners.
| Category |
Photos |
Details |
| Most Innovative Video |
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Digital Analysis of Van Gogh Paintings
Laurens van der Maaten & Eric Postma
Maastricht University
|
| Best Student Video |
|
Game-Based Learning
Daniel Byers, Michael Lapping-Carr, Julie Kumar, Thea Hinkle, Dan Grollman, & Chad Jenkins
Brown University
|
| Best Short Video |
|
BigDog
Marc Raibert, Kevin Blankespoor, Gabe Nelson, Rob Playter and the Entire BigDog Team
Boston Dynamics
|
| Best Demonstration Video |
|
STARMAC: Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control
Gabriel Hoffmann, Steven Waslander, Haomiao Huang, Vijay Pradeep, Michael Vitus, Jeremy Gillula, & Claire Tomlin
Stanford University
|
| Best Educational Video |
|
Imitating a RoboCup Soccer Player Using Case-Based Reasoning
Michael Floyd & Babak Esfandiari
Carleton University
|
| Best Video Narration |
|
CBR Noir
David C. Wilson
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
|
| Best Video |
|
Bio-Inspired Flying Robots
Sabine Hauert
EPFL
|
Summary of the Submission Process
We received 36 submissions, our Program Committee accepted 26, and a
subset of these were nominated for 7 award categories. The winners
were announced on 14 July 2008 at AAAI/IAAI-08 in Chicago at the
Awards Ceremony, where they received trophies and iPod Nanos. Nominees
received iPod Shuffles. Please see
our Accepted
Videos, Nominees, and Winners page for details and photos.
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!
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:
- Highlight your own (contemporary or previous) research
- Focus on the activities (research and/or application) of your (or another) group
- Introduce viewers to an exciting new AI-related topic
- Document some long-term activity of a senior researcher
- Include interviews with key researchers/practitioners
- Can be used in the classroom
- Would otherwise interest prospective students to the field of AI
This is an incomplete list. No matter what your choice, creativity is encouraged!
T-shirts: All developers of submitted videos will receive a
t-shirt (dark red, they read "AI in Motion" on the back and
have "AAAI-08" inside a logo for a camera lens on the front),
available from the AAAI registration desk. These have been
donated by the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project (see the
AAAI AI Topics Video Archive section).
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:
- Date submitted
- Video developer(s)/author(s) names
- Institution(s)
- Email(s) for correspondence
- Title of submission
- Video format used (e.g., WMV, AVI)
- Length (in minutes & seconds)
- URL where the downloadable submisison is located
- Size (in MB)
- Is the first/primary author a student?
- 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.
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)
- Relevance to AI (research, instruction, and/or application)
- Degree of excitement: Entertainment value, enticing, novelty, etc.
- Educational content
- Presentation
- Understandable to novices
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:
- A Shakey: A trophy named in honor of SRI's Shakey.
- iPods (donated by the AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project)
- Cash awards (amount to be determined)
Award Categories (tentative)
- Best (Long)
- Best Short
- Best Student
- Best Demonstration
- Best Educational (handled by Educational Video Track)
- Most Visionary
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.
- Submission Deadline: 2 June 2008
- Reviewing Decision Notifications: 17 June 2008
- Announcement of Accepted Videos (on competition's www site): 17 June 2008
- Award Presentations: 14 July 2008 (after the opening reception)
- Screening: 15 July 2008 (all day)
- Final Versions Due: 30 June 2008
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.
- Aha, David (NRL), Co-chair
- Bowling, Michael (U. Alberta), Educational Video Track Chair
- Buchanan, Bruce (U. Pittsburgh); Advisor, AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project
- Chang, Yu-Han (USC ISI)
- Christensen, Anders (U. Libre de Bruxelles)
- Crabbe, Frederick (USNA)
- Diuk, Carlos (Rutgers U.)
- Doherty, Patrick (Linkoping U.)
- Dorigo, Marco (U. Libre de Bruxelles)
- Grobelnik, Marko (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Gupta, Kalyan Moy (Knexus Research)
- Jermol, Mitja (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Kuter, Ugur (U. Maryland)
- Lee Urban, Stephen (Lehigh U.)
- van Lent, Michael (Soar Technology)
- Matuszek, Cynthia (U. Washington)
- Muñoz-Avila, Héctor (Lehigh U.)
- Musliner, David (Honeywell)
- O'Grady, Rehan (U. Libre de Bruxelles)
- Perrault, Ray (SRI)
- Pickett, Marc (UMBC)
- Schultz, Alan (NRL)
- Stanley, Ken (U. Central Florida)
- Stavens, David (Stanford U.)
- Stoica, Adrian (Cal Tech., JPL)
- Sukthankar, Gita (U. Central Florida)
- Thrun, Sebastian (Stanford U.), Co-chair
- Watson, Ian (U. Auckland)
- Weber, Rosina (Drexel U.)
- Youngblood, Michael (UNC Charlotte)
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.