cig ieee 2018

We are thrilled to reintroduce ourselves as the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences or @UM_DACS, the new joint home of @UM_IDS and (the now former) @UM_DKE! Read more in the announcement, or marvel at some facts and figures about our new group in the thread below (1/7)🧵

2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) has been posted to the IEEE Xplore: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecent…

Had a great time @cig2018ieee last week, catching up with old friends and meeting new ones; amazing research in #gameAI Ready to get working on all the new ideas now! Also looking forward to #CoG2019 which might just be bigger and better than ever! (being the first CoG helps...)

The CIG proceedings can be downloaded here: project.dke.maastrichtuniversity.nl/games/files/pr…

Closing speech from Mark:

Using a Team of General AI Algorithms to Assist Game Design and Testing presented by Cristina Guerrero-Romero

Session 7a has just began, Frank Glavin present Skilled Experience Catalogue: A SkillBalancing Mechanism for Non-Player Characters using Reinforcement Learning. #cig2018 #presentations

The following paper in the ML Session is about Human-Like Playtesting with Deep Learning applied for the Candy Crush game

Check our next paper in the ML Session on "A Machine Learning Item Recommendation System for Video Games"

Check the second paper in the Machine Learning Session "Deep RTS: A Game Environment for Deep Reinforcement Learning in Real-Time Strategy Games"

Get ready for the Machine Learning Session and our first paper is about: "The Evolutionary Race: Improving the Process of Evaluating Car Controllers in Racing Simulators"

Some of the future directions suggested by Arjen Beij in Generating Worlds at Guerrilla are: gaze animation using neural networks, photogrammetry and runtime generation of jumps

Arjen Beij, our keynote speaker is the Lead AI Programmer at HORIZON ZERO DAWN

And now please follow our keynote speaker ARJEN BEIJ who is talking about "Generating Words at Guerrilla Games", while the online streaming is available at: mediasite.maastrichtuniversity.nl/Mediasite/Play…

The Video Competition was won by Vanessa Volz, Jacob Schrum, Jianlin Liu, Simon M. Lucas, Adam Smith and Sebastian Risi with the paper: "Evolving Mario Levels in the Latent Space of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversial Network". Our warm congratulations!

Be ready for the keynote by Arjen Beij (Guerrilla Games) of today: mediasite.maastrichtuniversity.nl/Mediasite/Play…

The best paper award was won by Christian Guckelsberger, Christoph Salge and Julian Togelius with the paper: " New and Surprising Ways to be Mean: Adversarial NPCs with Coupled Empowerment Minimisation". Congratulations!

A great and fun conference dinner at the Thiessen Wijnkoopers in Maastricht

The winners for the μRTS for the Non-Deterministic Track: 1st Tiamat [AWARD], 2nd UTalcaBot and 3rd Capivara [AWARD]. Bravoooo 👏👏👏#CiG2018 #Competition

The winners for the μRTS for the Partially-Observable Track: 1st POAdaptiveRush, 2nd POLightRush and 3rd POWorkerRush. Bravoooo 👏👏👏#CiG2018 #Competition