Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB'10)

A 1 day workshop to be held August 22, 2010 at the 
2010 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Istanbul, Turkey
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib10.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.

The following papers are planned for the program.

    Insects

"Stereoscopic motion analysis of giant honeybees"
    M. Maurer, M. Ruether and Horst Bischof, F. Weihmann, T. Hoelzl, G. Kastberger
"On-line counting of pests in a greenhouse using computer vision"
    I. Bechar, S Moisan
"Robust insect classification applied to real time greenhouse infestation monitoring"
    R. Kumar, V. Martin, S. Moisan

    Flying Animals

"Automated visual monitoring of nesting seabirds"
    P. Dickinson, C. Qing, S. Lawson, R. Freeman
"Bat echolocation behavior from highspeed 3D video"
    Y. Xiao, R. Fisher
"Reconstruction and analysis of 3d trajectories of Brazilian free-tailed bats in flight"
    D. Theriault, Z. Wu, N. Hristov, T. Kunz, M. Betke
"Cataloging birds in their natural habitat"
    T. Ko,  A. Cenedese, S. Soatto, D. Estrin
"Detection and identification of animals using infrared and visible stereo vision"
    O. Levesque, R. Bergevin

    Ground Animals

"Estimation of cow's body condition score from images"
    S. Battiato,G. M. Farinella, G. C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi, G. Azzaro, M. Caccamo, G. Licitra, J. D. Ferguson 
"Modelling cow behaviour using multi-target tracking"
    J. Green, A. French, C. Brignell, J. Huxley, T. Pridmore
"An algorithm for automatic tracking of rat whiskers"
    G. Gyory, V. Rankov, G. Gordon, I. Perkon, B. Mitchinson, R. Grant, T. Prescott   
"Whisker detection as a shortest path problem"
    I. Perkon, A. Koair, J. Tasia, M. Diamond
"Improved rodent contour extraction using a priori shape information"
    R. Sillito
"Vision-based automated recognition of mice home-cage behaviors"
    H. Jhuang, E. Garrote, T. Poggio, A. D Steele, T. Serre
"Generic phase curl localisation for an individual identification of Turing-patterned animals"
    T. Burghardt 

    Fish and other marine animals

"Computer assisted photo identication of dermochelys coriacea"
    P. M. de Zeeuw, E. J. Pauwels, E. B. Ranguelova, D. M. Buonantony, S. A. Eckert
"A new taxonomy and graphical representation for visual fish analysis with a case study"
    G. Ros-Sanchez,  G. Garcia-Mateos, L. M. Vera, F. J. Sanchez Vazquez
"A Detection, Tracking, and Classification System for Underwater Images"
    D. E. Cline, D. R. Edgington 


More information can be found at: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib10.html
For registration, see the main ICPR web site: http://www.icpr2010.org

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. Branzan Albu University of Victoria 
    D. Forsyth      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
    Y. Kita         Japanese Nat. Inst. of Advanced Industrial
                       Science and Technology (AIST) 
    T. Lukins       University of Edinburgh 
    V. Martin       INRIA Sophia Antipoles 
    M. Mirmehdi     University of Bristol 
    G. Mori         Simon Fraser University 
    L. Mummert      Intel 
    S. Ravela       Masssachusetts Inst of Technology 
    C. Spampinato   Universita' di Catania