6 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…
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…
The SA-FARI Dataset: Segment Anything in Footage of Animals for Recognition and Identification
Dante Francisco Wasmuht, Otto Brookes, Maximillian Schall +21
Automated video analysis is critical for wildlife conservation. A foundational task in this domain is multi-animal tracking (MAT), which underpins applications such as individual r…
MedVLM-R1: Incentivizing Medical Reasoning Capability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) via Reinforcement Learning
Jiazhen Pan, Che Liu, Junde Wu +6
Reasoning is a critical frontier for advancing medical image analysis, where transparency and trustworthiness play a central role in both clinician trust and regulatory approval. A…