Multi-Animal Tracking with identification

The dataset is designed specifically to solve a range of computer vision problems (2D-3D tracking, posture) faced by biologists while designing behavior studies with animals. Typically, datasets for animal-specific vision tasks are created using open-source video material. This might be effective for an initial start, but these methods are not deployment ready for the behavior community. Therefore, we designed a semi-automated method for biologists to create well-curated datasets at a large scale for the ML and Vision community. 3D-POP is the first dataset with 3D ground truth for multi-animal, multi-view tracking problems. Highlight: The dataset is captured with the intention of using it for various vision problems and with different levels of complexity (no of cameras, no of individuals) Video explanation: Link to YouTube video Video teaser: Link to YouTube video ## Dataset Features: ### Marker-based videos: - 6 hours+ of annotations of 18 individuals (groups of 1, 2, 5, 10). - Bounding box - Trajectories (2D and 3D) - Posture (2D and 3D) with 9 key points - Identities - Total of 57 sequences (4K) with 4 views. - Dataset customization* (Users can modify the dataset and add key points to the dataset) ### Markerless: - 1Hr+ videos of 18 individuals in groups of 1, 2, 5, 11. The birds have no markers. This data is provided as test cases and unsupervised approaches. ## Problems: ### 2D domain: - Position, Posture of birds (different group sizes n = 1, 2, 5, 10) with Single/Multiview. - Tracking with single - multiview ### 3D domain: - Position, Posture of birds (different group sizes n = 1, 2, 5, 10) with Single/Multiview. - Tracking with single - multiview ### Fine-grained recognition: - Identity tracking with ground truth. ### Unsupervised learning: - 2D or 3D posture problems ## Idea: The dataset is created with a motion capture system, using the 6-DOF tracking ability. Assumptions are that head and body act as rigid bodies when birds walk and forage (proved with experiment). Therefore, we get the 3D position of key points by tracking head/body orientation.

It contains about 28K medium quality animal images belonging to 10 categories: dog, cat, horse, spyder, butterfly, chicken, sheep, cow, squirrel, and elephant. All the images have been collected from "google images" and have been checked by humans. There is some erroneous data to simulate real conditions (eg. images taken by users of your app). The main directory is divided into folders, one for each category. The image count for each category varies from 2K to 5 K units.

Existing image/video datasets for cattle behavior recognition are mostly small, lack well-defined labels, or are collected in unrealistic controlled environments. This limits the utility of machine learning (ML) models learned from them. Therefore, we introduce a new dataset, called Cattle Visual Behaviors (CVB), that consists of 502 video clips, each fifteen seconds long, captured in natural lighting conditions, and annotated with eleven visually perceptible behaviors of grazing cattle. By creating and sharing CVB, our aim is to develop improved models capable of recognizing all important cattle behaviors accurately and to assist other researchers and practitioners in developing and evaluating new ML models for cattle behavior classification using video data. The dataset is presented in the form of following three sub-directories. 1. raw_frames: contains 450 frames in each sub folder representing a 15 second video taken at a frame rate of 30 FPS. 2. annotations: contains the json files corresponding to the raw_frames folder. There is one json file for each video, that contains the bounding-box annotations for each cattle in the video and its associated behavior, and 3. CVB_in_AVA_format: contains the CVB data in the AVA dataset format.