Dominguez Video Accepted at IJCAI Video Competition

A video produced by LN graduate student Mike Dominguez has been accepted at the 3rd Annual AI Video Competition sponsored by the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.  The video, titled "A Plan-Based Machinima Creation System"  describes work done by Mike, Sam Munilla (also a graduate student in the LN Group) and Arnav Jhala (LN Group alum and now UC Santa Cruz Assistant Professor) that provides an easy-to-use web-based tool for creating machinima, that is, video film clips rendered within a 3D video game engine. 

The video is in the running for a number of awards that will be announced at the AI Video Competition Awards Ceremony  on 14 July 2009 during IJCAI-09 at the Pasadena Convention Center in California.  The awards ceremony  will be open to the general public and will be modeled on the red carpet Academy Awards ceremony.  The video is entered in the following competition categories:

 
Best Short Video
Best Student Video
Most Informative Video
Best Educational Video
Most Innovative Video
Best Narration

Members of the Video Competition program committee will select the winner of each category prior to IJCAI-09. The winners will not be revealed until they are announced at the ceremony, after trailers for all the category's nominated videos are screened.

For more information about the video competition, see the competition's call for submissions here.