Hauptseminar/Master Seminar:
(Computer) Vision in Animal Behaviour Studies

Prof. Nassir Navab, Dr. Federico Tombari, Nicola Rieke, Hemal Naik

Type: Advanced Seminar Course Module IN8901
Type: Master Seminar Module IN2107
Type: Seminar Module IN0014
TUMonline: Link
SWS: 2+0
ECTS: 5 Credits
Location: MI 03.13.010 and MI 02.13.010
Time: Wednesday, 4-5pm
Course Language: English

Announcements

• 24-06-2017: Please note that two sessions are shifted about a week!
• 01-04-2017: Papers are assigned
• 02-02-2017: List of papers is availible
• 11-01-2017: We set the date for the introductory meeting: Wednesday, 1st February 2017, 4:00pm in the CAMP seminar room MI 03.13.010

Introduction

• This seminar is in cooperation with the chair of Prof. Couzin (Max Planck Institute, Konstanz) and aims at students who would like to get insights into the field of Computer Vision in animal behaviour studies.

• The Seminar will propose a list of recent scientific articles related to the main current research topics including machine learning for animal (group) behaviour studies, machine vision methods for analyzing social interactions, animal conservation and virtual reality in animal studies.

Registration

• An introductory meeting will be held on Wednesday February 1, 4pm, in room MI 03.13.010
• The registration will be performed though the TUM Matching Platform.

Requirements

In this Master Seminar (formerly Hauptseminar), each student is asked to select one paper from a list. In order to successfully complete the seminar, participants have to fulfill these requirements:

• Presentation: The selected paper is presented to the other participants (20 minutes presentation 10 minutes questions). Use the CAMP templates for PowerPoint camp_PP.potx, or Latex: camp-template_latex.zip.
• Written Report: A document of maximum 8 pages is written and submitted two weeks after the presentation. Please download and use the llncs2e.zip Latex template.
• Attendance: Participants have to participate actively in all seminar sessions.

The students are required to attend each seminar presentation which will be held during this course. Each presentation is followed by a discussion and everyone is encouraged to actively participate. The report must include all references used and must be written completely in your own words (no copy and paste allowed). Both report and presentation have to be done in English.

List of Topics and Material

The list of papers:

Nr	Authors	Title	Conference	Link	Tutor	Student
1	Robie, A. A. et al.	Machine vision methods for analyzing social interactions	Journal of Experimental Biology	paper	Beatrice Lentes	Fabian Reinisch
2	Anderson, D. J. et al.	Toward a Science of Computational Ethology	Neuron	paper	Beatrice Lentes	Anuj Ladia
3	Ioannou, C. C. et al.	Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey	Science	paper	Jakob Weiss	Vladimir Danilov
	Stowers, J. R. et al.	Reverse Engineering Animal Vision with Virtual Reality and Genetics	Computer	paper	Jakob Weiss	Vladimir Danilov
4	Wiltschko, A. B. et al.	Mapping Sub-Second Structure in Mouse Behavior	Neuron	paper	Julia Rackerseder	Angela Denninger
5	Buhl, J. et al.	From Disorder to Order in Marching Locusts	Science	paper	Nicola Rieke	Lukas Krenz
	Couzin, I. D. et al.	Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups	Science	paper	Nicola Rieke	Lukas Krenz
6	Rosenthal, S. B. et al.	Revealing the hidden networks of interaction in mobile animal groups allows prediction of complex behavioral contagion	Proc. National Academy of Sciences	paper	Mira Slavcheva	Luigi Petrucco
7	Klibaite, U. et al.	An Unsupervised Method for Quantifying the Behavior of Interacting Individuals	preprint arXiv:1609.09345	paper	Nicola Rieke	Abdurrahman Enes Senel
8	Pérez-Escudero, A. et al.	idtracker: tracking individuals in a group by automatic identification of unmarked animals	Nature methods	paper	Mira Slavcheva	Gorkem Kilinc
9	Van Horn, G. et al.	Building a bird recognition app and large scale dataset with citizen scientists: The fine print in fine-grained dataset collection	CVPR	paper	Dr. Federico Tombari	Mareike Baumann
10	Branson, S. et al.	Visual Recognition with Humans in the Loop	ECCV	paper	Dr. Federico Tombari	Kamal Datta
11	Huang, J. B. et al.	Detecting Migrating Birds at Night	CVPR	paper	Tolga Birdal	Peter Mortimer
12	van Gemert, J. C. et al.	Nature Conservation Drones for Automatic Localization and Counting of Animals	ECCV (workshop)	paper	Tolga Birdal	Annett Köhler

Schedule

This is the final schedule for the course. Each registered student is required to attend all presentations.

Date	Time	Place	Topic	Speaker	Tutor	Material
Feb 1, 2017	4-5pm	MI 03.13.010	Introductory Meeting
May 3, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Surveys	Fabian Reinisch, Anuj Ladia	Beatrice Lentes	paper1, paper2
May 17, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Detection	Peter Mortimer, Annett Köhler	Tolga Birdal	paper1, paper2
May 31, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Tracking I	Lukas Krenz, Abdurrahman Enes Senel	Nicola Rieke	paper1.1, paper1.2, paper2
June 21, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Tracking II	Gorkem Kilinc, Luigi Petrucco	Mira Slavcheva	paper1, paper2
July 5, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Dataset , Recognition	Mareike Baumann, Kamal Datta	Dr. Federico Tombari	paper1, paper2
July 12, 2017	4-5pm	MI 02.13.010	Virtual Reality and Pose	Vladimir Danilov, Angela Denninger	Jakob Weiss, Julia Rackerseder	paper1.1, paper1.2, paper2