CFP: Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB)

A 1 day workshop to be held December 7, 2008 at the 
2008 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Tampa Bay, Florida, USA
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib08.html

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.
 
The types of issues that research will address include:
	
	detection of living organisms
	organism tracking and movement analysis
	dynamic shape analysis
	classification of different organisms (eg. by subspecies)
	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.

More information can be found at: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib08.html

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS:
	Submission: a 4 page extended abstract in PDF to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by 
			July 21, 2008
	Acceptance: decisions will be made by August 4
	Revised extended abstracts of the accepted presentation will be required 
			by September 1

Workshop Organizers:
	R. Fisher       University of Edinburgh
	J. Hallam	University of South Denmark
	Y. Xiao         University of Edinburgh

Program Committee
	D. Armstrong    University of Edinburgh
	A. Calway       University of Bristol
	D. Forsyth	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
	T. Lukins       University of Edinburgh
	M. Mirmehdi     University of Bristol
	others