Automatic recognition of primate behaviors and social interactions from videos
Nastaran Ghadar · 2015
Recognizing and modeling social behaviors of animals has many applications, including: (1) improved understanding of their behavior; (2) enhanced protection of species; (3) hosting of specimens in enriched environment at zoos; and (4) efficient extraction and analysis of data in important basic and applied biological research, where animal models are used. Currently, understanding social behaviors in animals is achieved either by direct human observations or by videotaping and then coding the behaviors. Both of these approaches have major limitations including being heavily time consuming and requiring highly trained behavioral science experts. Having an automated system to recognize and model social behaviors would facilitate the scientific study of complex behaviors with less impact due to these constraints. However, research in this area is very limited.