no code implementations • 13 Apr 2024 • Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Hjalmar Kuhl, Tilo Burghardt
We show that chimpanzee behaviour understanding from camera traps can be enhanced by providing visual architectures with access to an embedding of text descriptions that detail species behaviours.
1 code implementation • 13 Feb 2024 • Chengxi Zeng, Tilo Burghardt, Alberto M Gambaruto
While many recent Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) variants have had considerable success in solving Partial Differential Equations, the empirical benefits of feature mapping drawn from the broader Neural Representations research have been largely overlooked.
1 code implementation • 10 Feb 2024 • Chengxi Zeng, Tilo Burghardt, Alberto M Gambaruto
Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) have emerged as an iconic machine learning approach for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs).
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2024 • Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Colleen Stephens, Samuel Angedakin, Katherine Corogenes, Dervla Dowd, Paula Dieguez, Thurston C. Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Kevin Lee, Vera Leinert, Juan Lapuente, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia Meier, Mizuki Murai, Emmanuelle Normand, Virginie Vergnes, Erin G. Wessling, Roman M. Wittig, Kevin Langergraber, Nuria Maldonado, Xinyu Yang, Klaus Zuberbuhler, Christophe Boesch, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kuhl, Tilo Burghardt
We present the PanAf20K dataset, the largest and most diverse open-access annotated video dataset of great apes in their natural environment.
1 code implementation • 14 Aug 2023 • Kejia Zhang, Mingyu Yang, Stephen D. J. Lang, Alistair M. McInnes, Richard B. Sherley, Tilo Burghardt
In this paper, we publish an animal-borne underwater video dataset of penguins and introduce a ready-to-deploy deep learning system capable of robustly detecting penguins (mAP50@98. 0%) and also instances of fish (mAP50@73. 3%).
1 code implementation • 11 May 2023 • Tayfun Karaderi, Tilo Burghardt, Raphael Morard, Daniela Schmidt
We demonstrate for the first time that such alignment can be achieved via deep embedding models and that the approach is directly applicable to boosting long-tailed recognition (LTR) particularly for rare species.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Toby Perrett, Saptarshi Sinha, Tilo Burghardt, Majid Mirmehdi, Dima Damen
We demonstrate that, unlike naturally-collected video datasets and existing long-tail image benchmarks, current video benchmarks fall short on multiple long-tailed properties.
2 code implementations • 22 Feb 2023 • Chengxi Zeng, Xinyu Yang, David Smithard, Majid Mirmehdi, Alberto M Gambaruto, Tilo Burghardt
This paper presents a deep learning framework for medical video segmentation.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2023 • Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt
We propose the first metric learning system for the recognition of great ape behavioural actions.
2 code implementations • 17 Aug 2022 • Chengxi Zeng, Xinyu Yang, Majid Mirmehdi, Alberto M Gambaruto, Tilo Burghardt
Our findings suggest that the proposed model can indeed enhance the TransUNet architecture via exploiting temporal information and improving segmentation performance by a significant margin.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2022 • Alessandro Masullo, Toby Perrett, Tilo Burghardt, Ian Craddock, Dima Damen, Majid Mirmehdi
We propose a novel approach to multimodal sensor fusion for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) which takes advantage of learning using privileged information (LUPI).
1 code implementation • 5 Jun 2022 • Maria Stennett, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Tilo Burghardt
This paper combines deep learning techniques for species detection, 3D model fitting, and metric learning in one pipeline to perform individual animal identification from photographs by exploiting unique coat patterns.
1 code implementation • 30 Apr 2022 • Xinyu Yang, Tilo Burghardt, Majid Mirmehdi
We propose a novel end-to-end curriculum learning approach for sparsely labelled animal datasets leveraging large volumes of unlabelled data to improve supervised species detectors.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2022 • Jing Gao, Tilo Burghardt, Neill W. Campbell
In particular, for the task of automatic identification of individual Holstein-Friesians in real-world farm CCTV, we show that self-supervision, metric learning, cluster analysis, and active learning can complement each other to significantly reduce the annotation requirements usually needed to train cattle identification frameworks.
1 code implementation • 17 Dec 2021 • Tayfun Karaderi, Tilo Burghardt, Allison Y. Hsiang, Jacob Ramaer, Daniela N. Schmidt
We show that metric learning outperforms all published CNN-based state-of-the-art benchmarks in this domain.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2021 • Mowen Xue, Theo Greenslade, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt
In particular, we show that the integration of a holistic attention network based super-resolution approach and a custom-built altitude data exploitation network into standard recognition pipelines can considerably increase the detection efficacy in real-world settings.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2021 • Devis Tuia, Benjamin Kellenberger, Sara Beery, Blair R. Costelloe, Silvia Zuffi, Benjamin Risse, Alexander Mathis, Mackenzie W. Mathis, Frank van Langevelde, Tilo Burghardt, Roland Kays, Holger Klinck, Martin Wikelski, Iain D. Couzin, Grant van Horn, Margaret C. Crofoot, Charles V. Stewart, Tanya Berger-Wolf
Data acquisition in animal ecology is rapidly accelerating due to inexpensive and accessible sensors such as smartphones, drones, satellites, audio recorders and bio-logging devices.
2 code implementations • 5 May 2021 • Jing Gao, Tilo Burghardt, William Andrew, Andrew W. Dowsey, Neill W. Campbell
Motivated by the labelling burden involved in constructing visual cattle identification systems, we propose exploiting the temporal coat pattern appearance across videos as a self-supervision signal for animal identity learning.
2 code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Toby Perrett, Alessandro Masullo, Tilo Burghardt, Majid Mirmehdi, Dima Damen
We propose a novel approach to few-shot action recognition, finding temporally-corresponding frame tuples between the query and videos in the support set.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2020 • Otto Brookes, Tilo Burghardt
We put forward a video dataset with 5k+ facial bounding box annotations across a troop of 7 western lowland gorillas at Bristol Zoo Gardens.
1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2020 • Faizaan Sakib, Tilo Burghardt
We propose a first great ape-specific visual behaviour recognition system utilising deep learning that is capable of detecting nine core ape behaviours.
1 code implementation • 14 Oct 2020 • Xinyu Yang, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt
In this paper we show that learning video feature spaces in which temporal cycles are maximally predictable benefits action classification.
1 code implementation • 29 Jul 2020 • Toby Perrett, Alessandro Masullo, Tilo Burghardt, Majid Mirmehdi, Dima Damen
This produces an initialisation for fine-tuning to target which is both context-agnostic and task-generalised.
2 code implementations • 16 Jun 2020 • William Andrew, Jing Gao, Siobhan Mullan, Neill Campbell, Andrew W Dowsey, Tilo Burghardt
Holstein-Friesian cattle exhibit individually-characteristic black and white coat patterns visually akin to those arising from Turing's reaction-diffusion systems.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2019 • Alessandro Masullo, Tilo Burghardt, Toby Perrett, Dima Damen, Majid Mirmehdi
We present the first fully automated Sit-to-Stand or Stand-to-Sit (StS) analysis framework for long-term monitoring of patients in free-living environments using video silhouettes.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2019 • Xinyu Yang, Majid Mirmehdi, Tilo Burghardt
We propose the first multi-frame video object detection framework trained to detect great apes.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2019 • William Andrew, Colin Greatwood, Tilo Burghardt
This paper describes a computationally-enhanced M100 UAV platform with an onboard deep learning inference system for integrated computer vision and navigation able to autonomously find and visually identify by coat pattern individual Holstein Friesian cattle in freely moving herds.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2018 • Rory Smith, Tilo Burghardt
This paper describes DeepKey, an end-to-end deep neural architecture capable of taking a digital RGB image of an 'everyday' scene containing a pin tumbler key (e. g. lying on a table or carpet) and fully automatically inferring a printable 3D key model.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2018 • Alessandro Masullo, Tilo Burghardt, Dima Damen, Sion Hannuna, Victor Ponce-López, Majid Mirmehdi
We propose a novel deep fusion architecture, CaloriNet, for the online estimation of energy expenditure for free living monitoring in private environments, where RGB data is discarded and replaced by silhouettes.
no code implementations • 11 Jun 2018 • Víctor Ponce-López, Tilo Burghardt, Sion Hannunna, Dima Damen, Alessandro Masullo, Majid Mirmehdi
We present a deep person re-identification approach that combines semantically selective, deep data augmentation with clustering-based network compression to generate high performance, light and fast inference networks.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2016 • Benjamin Hughes, Tilo Burghardt
To the best of our knowledge this line of work establishes the first fully automated contour-based visual ID system in the field of animal biometrics.
no code implementations • 27 Jul 2016 • Lili Tao, Tilo Burghardt, Majid Mirmehdi, Dima Damen, Ashley Cooper, Sion Hannuna, Massimo Camplani, Adeline Paiement, Ian Craddock
We present a new framework for vision-based estimation of calorific expenditure from RGB-D data - the first that is validated on physical gas exchange measurements and applied to daily living scenarios.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2016 • Massimo Camplani, Adeline Paiement, Majid Mirmehdi, Dima Damen, Sion Hannuna, Tilo Burghardt, Lili Tao
Finally, we present a brief comparative evaluation of the performance of those works that have applied their methods to these datasets.