5 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…
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…