Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior (VAIB) http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib14.html A 1 day workshop to be held August 24, 2014 at the 2014 Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition Stockholm, Swedan (www.icpr2014.org) The papers accepted for presentation are: Rodents ================ Multiview 3D Mouse Tracking based on Ellipsoidal Shape Model M. Soto-Alvarez, V. Tucci, V. Murino, D. Sona Robust Point Cloud Segmentation of Rodents using Close Range Depth Cameras in Controlled Environments O. Fernandez, E. van Dam, R. Veltkamp, L. Noldus Detecting individual body parts improves mouse behavior classification C. Decker, F. Hamprecht Rat Paw Tracking for Detailed Motion Analysis T. Palmer, K. Astrom, O. Enqvist, N. Ivica, P. Petersson Large Animals ================ The use of image data in the assessment of equine conformation - limitations and solutions T. Druml, A. Gabdulkhakova, N. Artner, G. Brem, W. Kropatsch Learning Based Image Segmentation of Pigs in a Pen M. Nilsson, H. Ardo, K. Astrom, A. Herlin, C. Bergsten, O. Guzhva Aquatic Animals ================ Experiments with the Fish4Knowledge Dataset R. B. Fisher, B. J. Boom, P. X. Huang Tracking the Motion of Box Jellyfish T. Kjellberg, T. Palmer, M. Oskarsson, K. Astrom Insects ================ Skeleton-based analysis of butterflies derived by colour images G. Donatella 3D tracking based on possibilities rather than probabilities. Application to flying honeybees at the beehive entrance G. Chiron, P. Gomez-Kramer, M. Menard Other ================ Imaging Modalities For Semi-Translucent Animals And Their Impact On Quantitative Analysis B. Risse, D. Berh, X. Jiang, N. Otto, C. Klambt A Detection Algorithm Based on Matrix Factorization for Live Mitochondria in Fluorescent Microscopic Images X.-M. Jia, Y.-M. Nie, Y. Li, X.-L. Xing, S.-D. Du NOTE: there is also expected to 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 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 E. van Dam Noldus 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 R. Sillito Actual Analytics C. Spampinato Univ of Catania Y. Xiao University of West England ================