AAAI-07 Video Competition Track
The AI Video Competition was held Monday, July 23, 6:00 – 7:00 PM in the North Regency Foyer. Awards were presented at 7:00 PM.
AAAI held an exciting new event this year at AAAI-07, which took place during the opening reception: The inaugural AI Video Competition (www.aivideo.org). Conference attendees watched some exciting videos about AI and witnessed the best videos in the field win a “Shakey” — AAAI’s new award for the best short videos in AI.
The objective of this competition was to communicate to the world the fun of pursuing research in AI, and illustrate the impact of some of our applications. Submitters were asked to create narrated videos of 1-5 minutes in length, focused on interesting AI research. Videos were then reviewed by an international program committee, led by the founding chairs of this competition, David Aha and Sebastian Thrun. The creators of the best videos were presented with awards named in honor of Shakey, SRI's pioneering robot. AAAI gratefully acknowledged the generous contributions of Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research, which made this program possible.
Awards
Most Visionary
Jan-Mark Geusebroek
Intelligent Systems Lab Amsterdam
Informatics Institute
Faculty of Science
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Best Demonstration
Patrick Doherty
Department of Computer and Information Science
Artificial Intelligence and Integrated Computer Systems Division
Linköping University
Sweden
Best Explanation
Antal van den Bosch
Department of Communication and Information Sciences
Faculty of Humanities
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Best Student Video
sDance Evolution
Jeff Balogh, Gregg Dubbin, and Michael Do
University of Central Florida, USA
Best Short
Artificial intelligence: An Instance of Aibo Ingenuity
Michael Littman
Rutgers University, USA
Best Video
Morphogenesis: Shaping Wwarms of Intelligent Robots
Anders Lyhne Christensen, Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Belgium
Up to $3000 was awarded in prizes to the best in categories, including a “Shakeys”: a small trophy named in honor of SRI’s robot and its inspirational video.
Cosponsors: Thanks to Microsoft Research and Yahoo! Research for sponsoring the awards, and to the Jozef Stefan Institute’s PASCAL project for technical support.
For further information, contact the organizer’ supplemental web site (http://www.aivideo.org)
The AAAI-07 Video Competition call for papers is available as a printable PDF document
Track Cochairs
David Aha (Naval Research Laboratory), Cochair
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University), Cochair
Program Committee
David Aha (NRL), Cochair
Bruce Buchanan (University of Pittsburgh)
James Diebel (Stanford University)
Marko Grobelnik (Josef Stefan Institute)
Kalyan Gupta (Knexus Research)
Michael van Lent (USC/ICT)
Michael Littman (Rutgers University)
Martin Michalowski (USC/ISI)
Héctor Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
David Musliner (Honeywell)
Andrew Ng (Stanford University)
Ray Perrault (SRI)
Jonathan Schaeffer (University of Alberta)
Alan Schultz (NRL)
Reid Smith (R. G. Smith & Associates)
David Stavens (Stanford University)
Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University), Cochair
Rosina Weber (Drexel University)
Michael Witbrock (Cycorp)
Michael Youngblood (UNC Charlotte)