# Visual Recognition of Great Ape Behaviours in the Wild

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10759 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.10759/

## Key facts

- Cited by 16 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 21 Nov 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 16 of 16)

- [PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.13554/) (2024)
- [Triple-stream Deep Metric Learning of Great Ape Behavioural Actions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.02642/) (2023)
- [Dynamic Curriculum Learning for Great Ape Detection in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.00275/) (2022)
- [OpenApePose: a database of annotated ape photographs for pose estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00741/) (2022)
- [Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.16424/) (2024)
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- [ChimpVLM: Ethogram-Enhanced Chimpanzee Behaviour Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.08937/) (2024)
- [The PanAf-FGBG Dataset: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.21201/) (2025)
- [Holstein-Friesian Re-Identification using Multiple Cameras and Self-Supervision on a Working Farm](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.12695/) (2024)
- [Simplified Concrete Dropout -- Improving the Generation of Attribution Masks for Fine-grained Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.14825/) (2023)
- [PriVi: Towards A General-Purpose Video Model For Primate Behavior In The Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.09675/) (2025)
- [Automated Visual Monitoring of Nocturnal Insects with Light-based Camera Traps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.15433/) (2023)
- [Diving with Penguins: Detecting Penguins and their Prey in Animal-borne Underwater Videos via Deep Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.07267/) (2023)
- [From Forest to Zoo: Great Ape Behavior Recognition with ChimpBehave](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.20025/) (2024)
- [The PanAf-SBR Dataset: Social Behaviour Recognition for Wild Great Apes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.17399/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a first great ape-specific visual behaviour recognition system utilising deep learning that is capable of detecting nine core ape behaviours.