VAIB 2012 - Workshop on Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior (VAIB)

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. 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, farmed and wild fish, 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.