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FINAL CALL: IJCAI 2013 VIDEO COMPETITION (DEADLINE EXTENSION)</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<b>IMPORTANT: Deadline extended to 2013-05-26 due to requests from contributors.</b></p><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
We are pleased to present the final call for videos to the upcoming IJCAI 2013 Video Competition. In the spirit of earlier AI Video Competitions, the intention is to provide researchers with a forum for demonstrating how exciting and interesting artificial intelligence can be. The results of the competition will be presented at the IJCAI 2013 conference (August 3-9, 2013, in Beijing, China), where the best videos will be given an award. All accepted videos will also be made available<br>
online.</p><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Video Contents</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A wide range of videos related to artificial intelligence can be submitted to the competition, varying along a number of distinct dimensions. The topic of a video might for example be a general or specific area of AI, the work of a particular researcher or group (yourselves or others), or a concrete application that depends on one or several AI techniques and that may be based entirely on software or partly on hardware. A video may concern work with different levels of maturity, from introducing something new and interesting, through describing known but ongoing research, to summarizing a mature area or application and showing its impact on society. The intended audience of a video can be students learning about a topic in a classroom, researchers interesting in learning more about subfields outside their own, or the general public.</p>
<div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Specific Awards</div>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In keeping with the above, several distinct awards will be given. The following categories are envisioned, but are subject to change depending on the submissions received.</p>
<ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Best long video (up to 5 minutes)</li>
<li>Best short video (up to 1 minute)</li><li>Best application video (demonstrating a particular use of AI)</li><li>Most entertaining video (illustrating AI in an amusing or interesting way)</li><li>Most educational video (for students learning about a topic)</li>
<li>Most societally beneficial video (showing the public what AI can do and does for them)</li><li>Best autonomous robotics video (showing advances in robotics, including social aspects of robotics and human-robot interaction)</li>
</ul><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">In all cases, keeping the viewer interested and engaged is essential. The best videos of earlier AI video competitions have often achieved this through the use of humor, background music, and movies / animations. To ensure that the videos are comprehensible to a wide audience, they must be narrated or subtitled in English.</p>
<div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Requirements</div>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The following criteria must be satisfied by all videos participating in the competition.</p>
<ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>The video must be relevant to the area of Artificial Intelligence.</li>
<li>The video must be submitted in a widely supported encoding and container format. For example, MPEG-2, Xvid or H.264 encoding in an AVI or MKV container could be used. We reserve the right to recode videos before making them available online.</li>
<li>The authors must hold the copyright for all materials used, such as music, video, sounds and images, or have explicit written permission from the copyright holders to use and distribute this material.</li><li>The video must not be offensive and must not advertise or promote commercial products.</li>
</ul><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Review Process</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">After the submission deadline, all submitted videos satisfying the requirements stated above will be reviewed by the video competition program committee (to be announced) according to the following criteria.</p>
<ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Excitement: How interesting and exciting is the actual technology, research area, application, or other work being presented?</li>
<li>Educational content: To what extent can other AI researchers, students, or the general public can learn about artificial intelligence from the video?</li><li>Entertainment value: How entertaining and captivating is the video to watch?</li>
<li>Presentation quality: How well is the video produced, what is the quality of the narration and soundtrack, etc.?</li></ul><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
The best videos will be nominated for awards, and the winners decided by the committee will be revealed at a ceremony at IJCAI 2013.</p><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Submissions</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All submissions to the video competition are handled through EasyChair at <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcaivc2013" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(148,14,66)">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijcaivc2013</a>. In addition to standard information such as the entry's title, the names of the authors and their contact information, the following information must be submitted as a .txt file:</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">1. A link (URL) to a location where the video file can be downloaded by the program committee. This location should preferably be protected by a password, which should then be submitted here as well.</p>
<p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2. A one-or two-paragraph description of the submission.</p><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Key Dates</div><ul style="margin:1.5em 0px;padding:0px 0px 0px 30px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><li>Submission of videos: May 26, 2013</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance and award nominations: June 20, 2013</li><li>Final version and signed distribution license due: June 30, 2013</li></ul><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Program Committee</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Alberto Finzi<br>Alessandro Saffiotti<br>
Andreas Herzig<br>Charles Ortiz<br>Danica Kragic<br>Daniele Magazzeni<br>Daniele Nardi<br>Enrico Giunchiglia<br>Esra Erdem<br>Froduald Kabanza<br>Gerhard Lakemeyer<br>Hector Geffner<br>Karen Myers<br>Luc De Raedt<br>Malik Ghallab<br>
Malte Helmert<br>Mark Boddy<br>Mary-Anne Williams<br>Ramon Lopez de Mantaras<br>Renata Wasserman<br>Sven Koenig<br>Xiaoping Chen<br>Xinyu Wu<br>Yili Fu</p><div class="subtitle" style="font-weight:bold;color:rgb(195,18,48);margin-bottom:20px;font-size:14px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
Further Information</div><p style="margin:1.5em 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,'Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For further information about the competition, please contact the competition chairs (Patrick Doherty and Jonas Kvarnström) at <a href="mailto:videos@ijcai13.org" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(148,14,66)">videos@ijcai13.org</a>.</p>
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