5th Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior workshop (VAIB16) Call for Papers

CFP: 5th Visual observation and analysis of Vertebrate And Insect Behavior workshop (VAIB16)

     http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/rbf/vaib16.html

A 1 day workshop to be held December 4, 2016 at the 
2016 International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Cancun, Mexico (www.icpr2016.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 fifth 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 4 page 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
         specialized monitoring techniques

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/vaib16.html

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS:
         Submission: a 4 page extended abstract in PDF to rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk 
                by August 15, 2016
         Acceptance: September 15
         Revised extended abstracts: October 15
         Workshop: December 4, 2016

Workshop Organizers:
         R. Fisher       University of Edinburgh (Chaiur, contact: rbf@inf.ed.ac.uk)
         J. Hallam       University of South Denmark
         D. Armstrong    University of Edinburgh
         C. Spampinato   Universita' di Catania

Program Committee

M. Betke            Boston University
B. Boom             Cyclomediaxs
A. Branzan Albu     University of Victoria
P. Dickinson        University of Lincoln
A. French           Nottingham University
A. Gabdulkhakova    Vienna University of Technology
X. Jiang            Universiteit Muenster
Y. Kita             Japanese Nat. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
M. Mangan           University of Lincoln
S. Matthews         Newcastle University
M. Mirmehdi         University of Bristol
M. Nilsson          Lunds Tekniska Hogskola
M. Oskarsson        Lunds Tekniska Hogskola
S. Ravela           Massachusetts Inst of Technology
B. Risse            University of Edinburgh
R. Sillito          Actual Analytics
Y. Tzimiropoulos    Nottingham University
Y. Xiao             University of West England