Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB'12) A 1 day workshop to be held November 11, 2012 at the 2012 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Tsukuba, Japan http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib12.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 ================ Mapping All Social Interactions in a Honeybee Hive C. L. Luengo Hendriks, ZQ. Yu, A. Lecocq, B. Locke, O. Terenius Bumblebees Detection and Tracking B. D. Miranda-Maya, J. Salas-Rodriguez, P. Vera-Alfaro Counting the Number of Bumblebees Entering and Leaving a Beehive J. Salas-Rodriguez, P. Vera-Alfaro, B. D. Miranda-Maya Local Appearance Feature Based Classification of the Theraphosidae Family Ã. Utasi 3D Tracking of Building Process in Macrotermes K. Petersen, N. Napp, J. Chin-Lee, J. Werfel, R. Nagpal ================ Flying Animals ================ Vision System for Wingbeat Analysis of Bats in the Wild M. Breslav, N. Fuller, M. Betke Analysing the hovering flight of the hummingbird using statistics of the optical flow field F. Martínez Carrillo, A. Manzanera, E. Romero Error Analysis and Design Considerations for Stereo Vision Systems Used to Analyze Animal Behavior G. Towne, D. H. Theriault, Z. Wu, N. Fuller, T. H. Kunz, M. Betke ================ Ground Animals ================ Multiple Animal Species Detection Using Robust Principal Component Analysis and Large Displacement Optical Flow P. Khorrami, JP. Wang, T. Huang Rat behavior: human versus automatically generated annotation E. A. van Dam HMM Based Behavior Recognition of Laboratory Animals S. Sandikci, P. Duygulu Automated tracking of motor behavior as a means to assess severity of symptoms in the 6-OHDA marmoset model of Parkinson's disease T. Palmer, M. Santana, Fuentes, Petersson Learning animal social behavior from trajectory features E. Eyjolfsdottir, X. P. Burgos-Artizzu, S. Branson, K. Branson, D. J. Anderson, P. Perona ================ Fish and other marine animals ================ Three-dimensional behavior measurements of small aquatic lives using a single camera K. Kawasue, S. Nagatomo, Y. Oya Using non-local background modeling to quantify the schooling behaviour of sticklebacks S. Tavare R. Ardekani, A. K. Greenwood, C. L. Peichel Using Sparse Representation for Fish Recognition and Verification in Real World Observation Yi-Haur, F.-P. Lin Long-term underwater camera surveillance for monitoring and analysis of fish populations B. J. Boom, P. X. Huang, C. Spampinato, S. Palazzo, J. He, C. Beyan, E. Beauxis-Aussalet, J. van Ossenbruggen, G. Nadarajan, Y.-H. Chen-Burger, D. Giordano, L. Hardman, F.-P. Lin, R. B. Fisher Marker-Based Tracking of Subsurface Locomotion in Noisy Environments M. M. Serrano, S. Sharpe, D. I. Goldman, P. A. Vela More information can be found at: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib12.html For registration, see the main ICPR web site: http://www.icpr2012.org 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 Japanese Nat. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 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 Universita' di Catania Y. Xiao University of West England