Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior 2012

A one day workshop to be held in conjunction with the

and sponsored by the EU Fish4Knowledge project: Supporting humans in knowledge gathering and question answering w.r.t. marine and environmental monitoring through analysis of multiple video streams

There has been an enormous amount of research on analysis of video data of humans, but relatively little on visual analysis of other organisms. The goal of this workshop is to stimulate and bring together the current research in this area, and provide a forum for researchers to share expertise. As we want to make this more of a discussion workshop, we encourage work-in-progress presentations. Reviewing will be lightweight and only abstracts will be circulated to attendees.

The issues that the research will address include:

• detection of living organisms
• organism tracking and movement analysis
• dynamic shape analysis
• classification of different organisms (eg. by species)
• assessment of organism behavior or behavior changes
• size and shape assessment
• counting
• health monitoring

These problems can be applied to a variety of species at different sizes, such as fruit and house flies, crickets, cockroaches and other insects, farmed and wild fish, mice and rats, commercial farm animals such as poultry, cows and horses, and wildlife monitoring, etc. One aspect that they all have in common is video data.

Registration Information

On-line registration of workshops will be available via the ICPR 2012 web page. It is not necessary to register for the full conference to attend the workshop.

Papers Presented

8:40

Identifying All Individuals in a Honeybee Hive - Progress Towards Mapping All Social Interactions

C. L. Luengo Hendriks, ZQ. Yu, A. Lecocq, T. Bakker, B. Locke, O. Terenius

9:00

Bumblebees Detection and Tracking

B. D. Miranda, J. Salas, P. Vera

9:20

Counting the Bumblebees Entering and Leaving a Beehive

J. Salas, P. Vera

9:40

Local Appearance Feature Based Classification of the Theraphosidae Family

Á. Utasi

10:00

3D Tracking of Building Processes in Macrotermes

K. Petersen, N. Napp, J. Chin-Lee, J. Werfel, R. Nagpal

10:20

Vision System for Wing Beat Analysis of Bats in the Wild

M. Breslav, N. W. Fuller, M. Betke

11:00

Analysing the hovering flight of the hummingbird using statistics of the optical flow field

F. Martinez, A. Manzanera, E. Romero

11:20

Error Analysis and Design Considerations for Stereo Vision Systems Used to Analyze Animal Behavior

G. Towne, D. H. Theriault, Z. Wu, N. Fuller, T. H. Kunz, M. Betke

11:40

Multiple Animal Species Detection Using Robust Principal Component Analysis and Large Displacement Optical Flow

P. Khorrami, JP. Wang, T. Huang

12:00

Rat behavior: human versus automatically generated annotation

E. A. van Dam, L. P. J. J. Noldus

14:00

HMM Based Behavior Recognition of Laboratory Animals

S. Sandikci, P. Duygulu, A. B. Ozguler

14:20

Automated tracking of motor behavior as a means to assess severity of symptoms in the 6-OHDA marmoset model of Parkinsons disease

T. Palmér, M. Santana, R. Fuentes, P. Petersson

14:40

Learning animal social behavior from trajectory features

E. Eyjolfsdottir, X. P. Burgos-Artizzu, S. Branson, K. Branson, D. J. Anderson, P. Perona

15:00

Three-dimensional behavior measurements of small aquatic lives using a single camera

K. Kawasue, S. Nagatomo, Y. Oya

15:20

Using non-local background modeling to quantify the schooling behaviour of sticklebacks

R. Ardekani, A. K. Greenwood, C. L. Peichel, S. Tavaré

16:00

Using Sparse Representation for Fish Recognition and Verification in Real World Observation

Y.-H. Shiau, F.-P. Lin, C.-C. Chen

16:20

Long-term underwater camera surveillance for monitoring and analysis of fish populations

B. J. Boom, P. X. Huang, C. Beyan, C. Spampinato, S. Palazzo, J. He, E. Beauxis-Aussalet, S.-I. Lin, H.-M. Chou, G. Nadarajan, Y.-H. Chen-Burger, J. van Ossenbruggen, D. Giordano, L. Hardman, F.-P. Lin, R. B. Fisher

16:40

Marker-Based Tracking of Subsurface Locomotion in Noisy Environments

M. M. Serrano, S. S. Sharpe, D. I. Goldman, P. A. Vela

Submission Information

Submit a 4 page extended abstract in English, in PDF, by email to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by August 1, 2012. The extended abstracts (PDF) should be anonymous. Include in your email the name(s) of the author(s), institutional affiliation, complete mailing address, international phone and fax numbers. The papers presented at the workshop will be published in the workshop notes, for distribution to the participants and linked to this page after the workshop.

There will also be an associated journal special issue titled "Animal and Insect Behaviour Understanding in Image Sequences" in the EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing published by Springer.

Important Dates

Workshop Organisers

Program Committee

Contact

Email: Prof. Robert Fisher at rbf -a-t- inf.ed.ac.uk.