
\section{Vision}
\label{sec-1}

System for understanding what the actors in a video are doing --
Action Recognition.

Separate action recognition into three components:

\begin{itemize}
\item free play
\item embodied action predicates
\item model alignment
\item sensory imagination
\end{itemize}
\section{Steps}
\label{sec-2}

\begin{itemize}
\item Build cortex, a simulated environment for sensate AI
\begin{itemize}
\item solid bodies w/ joints
\item vision
\item touch
\item vision
\item hearing
\item proprioception
\item muscle contraction
\end{itemize}

\item Build experimental framework for worm-actions
\begin{itemize}
\item embodied stream predicates
\item \(\phi\)-space
\item \(\phi\)-scan
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
\section{News}
\label{sec-3}

Experimental results:

\begin{itemize}
\item \(\phi\)-space actually works very well for the worm!
\item self organizing touch map
\end{itemize}

\section{Contributions}
\label{sec-4}
\begin{itemize}
\item Built \texttt{CORTEX}, a comprehensive platform for embodied AI
experiments. Has many new features lacking in other systems, such
as sound. Easy to model/create new creatures.
\item created a novel concept for action recognition by using artificial
imagination.
\end{itemize}
