CFP: Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior (VAIB) [Note: Thanks to A. M. Predoehl for an improved workshop title renaming Animal to Vertebrate that keeps the VAIB badge and is biologically sound .] http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib14.html A 1 day workshop to be held August 24, 2014 at the 2014 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Stockholm, Swedan (www.icpr2014.org) NOTE: there will also be an ICPR workshop on Underwater Imaging that might be more suitable for papers on 'fish': Underwater Imaging Workshop 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, 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/vaib14.html We are discussing with publishers about a journal special issue on this topic. INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS: Submission: a 4 page extended abstract in PDF to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk by May 1, 2014 Acceptance: June 1 Revised extended abstracts will be required by July 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 T. Burghardt University of Bristol 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 E. Pauwels Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica T. Pridmore University of Nottingham S. Ravela Massachusetts Inst of Technology R. Sillito Actual Analytics E. van Dam Noldus Y. Xiao University of West England