CFP: Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB)
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib12.html

A 1 day workshop to be held November 11, 2012 at the 
2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Tsukuba, Japan
www.icpr2012.org

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 third VAIB 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 issues that the 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/vaib12.html

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS:
 	Submission: a 4 page extended abstract in PDF to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk 
		by August 1, 2012
 	Acceptance: September 1
 	Revised extended abstracts will be required by October 1

Workshop Organizers:
 	R. Fisher       University of Edinburgh
 	J. Hallam	University of South Denmark
 	B. Boom         University of Edinburgh

Program Committee

 	D. Armstrong    University of Edinburgh
	M. Betke	Boston University
        A. Branzan Albu University of Victoria
	P. Dickinson	University of Lincoln
	G. Farinella	University of Catania
	A. French	Nottingham University
	Y. Kita		AIST Japan
	O. Levesque	Laval University
 	T. Lukins       University of Edinburgh
        V. Martin	INRIA Sophia Antipoles
 	M. Mirmehdi     University of Bristol
        G. Mori		Simon Fraser University
	E. Pauwels	Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
        S. Ravela	Massachusetts Inst of Technology
	M. Ruether	Technische Universitat Graz
	T. Serre	Brown University
	R. Sillito	Actual Analytics
	C. Spampinato	University of Catania
	Y. Xiao		University of West England