10 papers
The PanAf-SBR Dataset: Social Behaviour Recognition for Wild Great Apes
Maciej Braszczok, Otto Brookes, Xiaoxuan Ma +6
Behavioural shifts in wild great ape populations, particularly the breakdown of social structures, can serve as an early indicator of population decline. Automating the detection o…
Automating Visual Recognition of Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzees
Katie I. Murray, Anna C. Bowland, Marina Ramon +9
Leprosy (Mycobacterium leprae) has been confirmed in wild western chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in West Africa, presenting as clear and progressive visual symptoms. Manual re…
The Invisible Hand of Physics: When Video Diffusion Models Know More Than They Show
Parsa Esmati, Somjit Nath, Katja Hofmann +3
Modern video diffusion models generate increasingly realistic and temporally coherent videos, motivating their use as candidate world simulators. Yet it remains unclear whether the…
Towards Application-Specific Evaluation of Vision Models: Case Studies in Ecology and Biology
Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Otto Brookes, Urs Waldmann +11
Computer vision methods have demonstrated considerable potential to streamline ecological and biological workflows, with a growing number of datasets and models becoming available…
Deep in the Jungle: Towards Automating Chimpanzee Population Estimation
Tom Raynes, Otto Brookes, Timm Haucke +6
The estimation of abundance and density in unmarked populations of great apes relies on statistical frameworks that require animal-to-camera distance measurements. In practice, acq…
Visual-textual Dermatoglyphic Animal Biometrics: A First Case Study on Panthera tigris
Wenshuo Li, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt
Biologists have long combined visuals with textual field notes to re-identify (Re-ID) animals. Contemporary AI tools automate this for species with distinctive morphological featur…