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Animal pose estimation is a fundamental task in computer vision, with growing importance in ecological monitoring, behavioral analysis, and intelligent livestock management. Compared to human pose estimation, animal pose estimation is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tianyu Xiong , Dayi Tan , Wei Tian

We introduce here a large tracking database that offers an unprecedentedly wide coverage of common moving objects in the wild, called GOT-10k. Specifically, GOT-10k is built upon the backbone of WordNet structure and it populates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Lianghua Huang , Xin Zhao , Kaiqi Huang

We present the PanAf20K dataset, the largest and most diverse open-access annotated video dataset of great apes in their natural environment. It comprises more than 7 million frames across ~20,000 camera trap videos of chimpanzees and…

In this paper, we studied the problem of localizing a generic set of keypoints across multiple quadruped or four-legged animal species from images. Due to the lack of large scale animal keypoint dataset with ground truth annotations, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Prianka Banik , Lin Li , Xishuang Dong

Automated video analysis is critical for wildlife conservation. A foundational task in this domain is multi-animal tracking (MAT), which underpins applications such as individual re-identification and behavior recognition. However, existing…

Accurate and scalable quantification of animal pose and appearance is crucial for studying behavior. Current 3D pose estimation techniques, such as keypoint- and mesh-based techniques, often face challenges including limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jack Goffinet , Youngjo Min , Carlo Tomasi , David E. Carlson

Accurate whole-body multi-person pose estimation and tracking is an important yet challenging topic in computer vision. To capture the subtle actions of humans for complex behavior analysis, whole-body pose estimation including the face,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hao-Shu Fang , Jiefeng Li , Hongyang Tang , Chao Xu , Haoyi Zhu , Yuliang Xiu , Yong-Lu Li , Cewu Lu

Human pose estimation has made significant advancement in recent years. However, the existing datasets are limited in their coverage of pose variety. In this paper, we introduce a novel benchmark FollowMeUp Sports that makes an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Ying Huang , Bin Sun , Haipeng Kan , Jiankai Zhuang , Zengchang Qin

Being heavily reliant on animals, it is our ethical obligation to improve their well-being by understanding their needs. Several studies show that animal needs are often expressed through their faces. Though remarkable progress has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Muhammad Haris Khan , John McDonagh , Salman Khan , Muhammad Shahabuddin , Aditya Arora , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Over the past decade, studying animal behaviour with the help of computer vision has become more popular. Replacing human observers by computer vision lowers the cost of data collection and therefore allows to collect more extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Maarten Perneel , Ines Adriaens , Ben Aernouts , Jan Verwaeren

The ongoing biodiversity crisis calls for accurate estimation of animal density and abundance to identify sources of biodiversity decline and effectiveness of conservation interventions. Camera traps together with abundance estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Peter Johanns , Timm Haucke , Volker Steinhage

Pose tracking is an important problem that requires identifying unique human pose-instances and matching them temporally across different frames of a video. However, existing pose tracking methods are unable to accurately model temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Michael Snower , Asim Kadav , Farley Lai , Hans Peter Graf

Because of their close relationship with humans, non-human apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons, including siamangs) are of great scientific interest. The goal of understanding their complex behavior would be…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-25 Nisarg Desai , Praneet Bala , Rebecca Richardson , Jessica Raper , Jan Zimmermann , Benjamin Hayden

Estimating 3D poses of multiple humans in real-time is a classic but still challenging task in computer vision. Its major difficulty lies in the ambiguity in cross-view association of 2D poses and the huge state space when there are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Long Chen , Haizhou Ai , Rui Chen , Zijie Zhuang , Shuang Liu

Precision livestock farming requires advanced monitoring tools to meet the increasing management needs of the industry. Computer vision systems capable of long-term multi-animal tracking (MAT) are essential for continuous behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Anne Marthe Sophie Ngo Bibinbe , Patrick Gagnon , Jamie Ahloy-Dallaire , Eric R. Paquet

We introduce PACE (Pose Annotations in Cluttered Environments), a large-scale benchmark designed to advance the development and evaluation of pose estimation methods in cluttered scenarios. PACE provides a large-scale real-world benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yang You , Kai Xiong , Zhening Yang , Zhengxiang Huang , Junwei Zhou , Ruoxi Shi , Zhou Fang , Adam W. Harley , Leonidas Guibas , Cewu Lu

Estimating the pose of animals can facilitate the understanding of animal motion which is fundamental in disciplines such as biomechanics, neuroscience, ethology, robotics and the entertainment industry. Human pose estimation models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Moira Shooter , Charles Malleson , Adrian Hilton

The cattle industry has been a major contributor to the economy of many countries, including the US and Canada. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized this sector, mirroring its transformative impact across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Navid Ghassemi , Ali Goldani , Ian Q. Whishaw , Majid H. Mohajerani

Automated animal behavior analysis relies on long-term, interpretable individual trajectories; however, multi-animal tracking in space science experimental videos remains highly challenging due to weak appearance cues, low-quality imaging,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jianing You , Han Wang , Kang Liu , Jiale Ding , Fengjie Chu , Zihan Guo , Shengyang Li

In this work, we introduce the challenging problem of joint multi-person pose estimation and tracking of an unknown number of persons in unconstrained videos. Existing methods for multi-person pose estimation in images cannot be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Umar Iqbal , Anton Milan , Juergen Gall