Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior 2024

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), 2022 (Montreal),

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

• 14:30-14:40 Welcome by Bob Fisher
• 14:40-15:00 Automating Recognition of Wild Boar Behaviors in Video Footage
  Khaled Awad, Lior Koren, Achiad Davidson, Dan Malkinson, Ilan Shimshoni
  
• 15:00-15:20 ButterFlySet: A 2D video dataset for pose estimation of the flying butterflies in the wild
  Kai Amino, Keisuke Fujii
  
• 15:20-15:40 Development of AI models for wildlife and bushfire habitat recovery program
  Sankaran Iyer, Manna Elizabeth Philip, Ryan Shofner, Gerasimos Cassis, Arcot Sowmya
  
• 15:40-16:00 Gaining Explainability from a CNN for Stereotype Detection Based on Mice Stopping Behavior
  Raul Alfredo de Sousa Silva, Yasmine Belaidouni, Rabah Iguernaissi, Djamal Merad, Séverine Dubuisson
  
• 16:00-16:30  Break
• 16:30-16:50 Multi-Viewpoint Re-Identification of Dairy Cows
  Peter Walchhofer, Stefan Kemptner, Martin Kampel
  
• 16:50-17:10 Assessment of Ocular Movement Frequency of Adult Zebrafish in response to Optokinetic Visual Stimulus
  Barnini Bhattacharya, Shibsankar Roy, Sanmoy Bandyopadhyay, Bijay Bal, Shankarashis Mukherjee, Anuradha Bhat, Kuntal Ghosh
  
• 17:10-17:30 Interactive Image-Based Aphid Counting in Yellow Water Traps under Stirring Actions
  Xumin Gao, Mark Stevens, Grzegorz Cielniak
  
• 17:30 Final discussions and close

Submission Information

Submit an 8 page extended abstract in English, in PDF, by email to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by Sept 8, 2024 23:59 GMT (UTC-0). Use the ICPR 2024 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 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.