Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior 2022

A one day workshop to be held in conjunction with the

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.

Previous versions of VAIB are here: 2008 (Tampa), 2010 (Istanbul), 2012 (Tsukuba), 2014 (Stockholm), 2016 (Cancun), 2018 (Beijing), 2020 (Milan/online),

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.

Program

The workshop will be held on Sunday August 21, 2021.

The draft program follows. The workshop will be virtual. The provisional timings of the presentations are below. All times are for Montreal, which will be in UTC-4 during ICPR 2022. Delegates who register for VAIB22 should receive a Zoom link from the conference organizers.

• 9:30-9:45 Welcome by Bob Fisher
• 9:45-10:05 Automatically detecting and tracking goat position by 2D camera imaging and deep learning
  Djahlin Nikue Amassah, X. Desquenesm B. Emile, S. Treuillet
• 10:05-10:25 Towards Individual Grevy’s Zebra Identification via Deep 3D Fitting and Metric Learning
  M. Stennett, D. I. Rubenstein, T. Burghardt
• 10:25-10:45 Visual Re-identification within Large Herds of Holstein Friesian Cattle
  M. Lennox, N. McLaughlin, J. Martinez del Rincon
• 10:45-11:05 Learning-based Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Birds: A Contemporary Survey
  S. M. Marvasti-Zadeh, M. N. Sabet Jahromi, J. Khaghani, D. W. Goodsman, N. Ray, N. Erbilgin
• 11:05-11:15 Short Break
• 11:15-11:35 Stereo Co-capture System for Recording and Tracking Fish with Frame- and Event Cameras
  F. Hamann, G. Gallego
• 11:35-11:55 Classification of Bark Beetle-Induced Forest Tree Mortality Using Deep Learning
  R. Kapil, S. M. Marvasti-Zadeh, D. W. Goodsman, N. Ray, N. Erbilgin
• 11:55-12:15 A practitioner’s guide to improve the logistics of spatiotemporal deep neural networks for animal behavior analysis
  L. N. Govindarajan, R. Kakodkar, T. Serre
• 12:15-13:00 Discussions and Closing

Submission Information

Submit a 4 page extended abstract in English, in PDF, by email to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by May 23, 2022 23:59 GMT (UTC-0). Use the ICPR 2022 style file. 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. The copyright for the papers will remain with the authors.

Note: all papers must conform to the IAPR Ethical Requirements for Authors: the paper is substantially original work not previously published, plagiarism is forbidden, and authors must show up at the workshop.

Important Dates

Workshop Organizers

Program Committee

Contact

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