Animal Behavior Analysis

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The field uses video, audio, and wearable sensors to quantify individual actions and social behavior, supporting research in ecology, animal welfare, health, and neuroscience. Common approaches include pose estimation and multi-object tracking, temporal action recognition with CNNs and transformers, multimodal sensor fusion, and mechanistic or agent-based models of collective motion. Work spans controlled laboratory studies, livestock monitoring, and wildlife camera-trap and underwater recordings, with benchmarks increasingly testing transfer across species and settings. A central challenge is making systems reliable on long, ambiguous sequences and under real-world distribution shifts, where strong performance on curated data may not translate to dependable biological conclusions.

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37 papers7 papers in the last four weeks, against 1 the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. A latent control model for realistic rodent motion

    Oct 19, 2026Aidan Sirbu, Charles Y. Zhang, Yuanjia Yang +3Latent Action LearningAnimal Behavior Analysis

    Google, Paradigms of Intelligence Team · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · School of Computer Science, McGill University +7

  2. Representing short-term movement to reveal animal identity and learning progress

    Oct 19, 2026Ping Zhang, Quang-Huy Nguyen, Yingtie Lei +5Animal Behavior AnalysisTrajectory Representation Learning

    Boston University · The Ohio State University · University of Chicago

  3. BossouChimpanzee: Long-term Chimpanzee Video Dataset

    Oct 4, 2026Daniel Schofield, Susana Carvalho, Vladimir Iashin +10Animal Re-IdentificationAnimal Behavior Analysis

    Visual Geometry Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK · University of Oxford, UK · CIBIO–BIOPOLIS, University of Porto, Vairão, Portugal +6

  4. BeeWhere: Segmenting Bumble Bee Colonies to Quantify Behavioral Effects

    Oct 2, 2026Roberta Hunt, August Easton-Calabria, James CrallAnimal Behavior AnalysisWildlife Monitoring

    University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark · Lund University, 223 62 Lund, Sweden · University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA

  5. THPL: A Vision-to-Language Decision Support Framework for Rainbow Trout Feeding Management in RAS

    Oct 1, 2026Meng Liang, Guanbo Feng, Haozhuang Chi +7LLM Decision-MakingCausal Reasoning in Language Models

    College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, Zhejiang, PR China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore · College of Marine Technology and Environment, Dalian Ocean University, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, PR China +1

  6. How much of fly walking is written in the wiring?

    Sep 29, 2026Isabel Guan, Yuntian Zhao, Dingyuan Zhang +2Animal Behavior Analysis

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · ZENBOT · Nanyang Technological University +1

  7. Positional choice and robust collective behavior in fish schools: biohybrid experiments and modeling

    Sep 28, 2026Vahagn Grigoryan, Donato Romano, Cesare Stefanini +1Agent-Based ModelingAnimal Behavior Analysis

    Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE · BioRobotics Institute, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy · Division of Computing and Mathematical Science, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE

  8. Characterizing Wildlife Response to Biomimetic and Conventional Underwater Vehicles

    Sep 18, 2026Huy Pham, Levi Cai, Yogesh Girdhar +2Underwater RoboticsRobotics

  9. WildFin: An In-the-Wild Dataset for Fish Behavioral Recognition

    Aug 21, 2026Abigail G. Grassick, Jerome Tze-Hou Hsu, Ethan Lin +10Vision Foundation ModelsVideo Action Recognition

    Cornell University, 14850 Ithaca, NY · University of Colorado Boulder, 80309 Boulder, CO · HHMI Janelia Research Campus, 20147, Ashburn VA

  10. A Hybrid Framework of Vision Transformer and Gated Recurrent Unit for Detection of Mosquito Diseases

    Aug 12, 2026Danial Sharifrazi, Saadat Behzadi, Nouman Javed +3Convolutional RNNsAnimal Behavior Analysis

    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovations (IISRI), Deakin University, Geelong, Australia · Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy · CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia

  11. Modeling Fly Social Behavior with Agent-Centric Pose Forecasting

    Jul 21, 2026Eyrun Eyjolfsdottir, Kristin BransonMulti-Agent Trajectory PredictionAnimal Behavior Analysis

    HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA 20147

  12. The PanAf-SBR Dataset: Social Behaviour Recognition for Wild Great Apes

    Jul 19, 2026Maciej Braszczok, Otto Brookes, Xiaoxuan Ma +6Animal Behavior Analysis

    University of Bristol, School of Computer Science, Bristol, UK · Wild Chimpanzee Foundation, Leipzig, Germany · Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pennsylvania. USA +4

  13. Social-spatial dependencies for learning visual navigation

    Jul 8, 2026Patrick Govoni, Pawel RomanczukVisual NavigationMulti-Agent Coordination

    Institute for Theoretical Biology, Department of Biology, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany · Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany · Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin, Germany

  14. K9-Bench: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Canine-Centric Videos

    Jul 2, 2026Khush Attarde, Yusuf Ali, Megha Thukral +3Video UnderstandingMultimodal Large Language Models

    Ogmen Robotics Inc., Massachusetts, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

  15. When Multi-Sensor Fusion Fails to Generalize: Cattle Posture Classification Under Animal-Level and Temporal Distribution Shift

    Jun 23, 2026Leutrim Uka, Severino Pinto, Gundula Hoffmann +1Distribution Shift RobustnessDistribution Shift

    Institute of Computer Science, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. · Department of Sensors and Modelling, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy - ATB, Potsdam, Germany. · Department of Data Science in Bioeconomy, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy - ATB, Potsdam, Germany.

  16. Cross-Modal Corroboration for Annotation-Free Wildlife Monitoring

    Jun 19, 2026Bharath Pillai, Varun Viswapriyan, Christopher Stewart +2Animal Behavior AnalysisMultimodal Model Evaluation

    The Ohio State University

  17. BEAST3D: Animal behavioral analysis and neural encoding from multi-view video via Gaussian splatting

    Jun 1, 2026Yanchen Wang, Lenny Aharon, Wangshu Zhu +7Sparse-View 3D Reconstruction3D Representation Learning

    Columbia University · Cold Spring Harbor · Stanford University

  18. PlayClass: Automated Play Behaviour Classification in Poultry

    May 26, 2026Prince Ravi Leow, Neil Scheidwasser, Rebecca Oscarsson +3Video Action RecognitionVideo Foundation Models

    Section for Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen · 1Section for Health Data Science & AI, University of Copenhagen · Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London +2

  19. GEESE: Genotype-aware End-to-End Spatio-temporal Embedding for Behavioral Phenotyping

    May 23, 2026Yiran Ding, Yuen Gao, Chunqi Qian +1Animal Behavior Analysis

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA · Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

  20. A Mechanistic Model for Collective Motion from Sensorimotor Regularities

    May 15, 2026Vito Mengers, Bao Duc Cao, Oliver BrockAgent-Based ModelingAnimal Behavior Analysis

    Robotics and Biology Laboratory, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany · Science of Intelligence, Research Cluster of Excellence, Berlin, Germany · Robotics Institute Germany

  21. Meow-Omni 1: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Feline Ethology

    May 9, 2026Jucheng Hu, Zhangquan Chen, Yulin Chen +9Multimodal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Foundation Models

    University College London · Tsinghua University · Nanjing University +1

  22. Context as Prior: Bayesian-Inspired Intent Inference for Non-Speaking Agents with a Household Cat Testbed

    Apr 30, 2026Wenqian Zhang, Zehao WangBayesian InferenceProduct of Experts

    University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA

  23. Motion-Driven Multi-Object Tracking of Model Organisms in Space Science Experiments

    Apr 29, 2026Jianing You, Han Wang, Kang Liu +4Animal Behavior AnalysisMulti-Object Tracking

    Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Space Exploration, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  24. MTT-Bench: Predicting Social Dominance in Mice via Multimodal Large Language Models

    Apr 24, 2026Yunquan Chen, Haoyu ChenMultimodal Large Language ModelsSocial Reasoning

    Department of Communication Systems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden · CMVS, University of Oulu, Finland

  25. MSGL-Transformer: A Multi-Scale Global-Local Transformer for Rodent Social Behavior Recognition

    Apr 8, 2026Muhammad Imran Sharif, Doina CarageaAnimal Behavior AnalysisTransformer

    Department of Computer Science, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 66506, USA.

  26. Robots that learn to evaluate models of collective behavior

    Apr 8, 2026Mathis Hocke, Andreas Gerken, David Bierbach +2Animal Behavior Analysis

    Department of computer science, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany. · SCIoI Excellence Cluster, Technische Universität Berlin, 10587, Berlin, Germany. · Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10117, Berlin, Germany. +1

  27. Toward Optimal Sampling Rate Selection and Unbiased Classification for Precise Animal Activity Recognition

    Apr 1, 2026Axiu Mao, Meilu Zhu, Lei Shen +3Animal Behavior AnalysisAdaptive Sampling

    School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou 310018, China · Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China +3

  28. CHIRP dataset: towards long-term, individual-level, behavioral monitoring of bird populations in the wild

    Mar 26, 2026Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Neha Singhal, Onur Kocahan +6Animal Re-IdentificationWildlife Monitoring

    Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz · Dept. of Collective Behavior, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior · Dept. of Biology, University of Konstanz +5

  29. RatSeizure: A Benchmark and Saliency-Context Transformer for Rat Seizure Localization

    Mar 25, 2026Ting Yu Tsai, An Yu, Lucy Lee +5Animal Behavior AnalysisTemporal Action Localization

    University at Albany, SUNY · University of Louisville · GE HealthCare

  30. Exploring parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of billion-parameter vision models with QLoRA and DoRA: insights into generalization for limited-data image classification under a 98:1 test-to-train regime

    Mar 18, 2026Haiyu Yang, Sumit Sharma, Enhong Liu +1Precision Livestock FarmingParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning

    Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ithaca, NY 14853