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PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition

arXiv 2401.13554 ↗First posted 24 Jan 2024cs.CVcited by 22

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present the PanAf20K dataset, the largest and most diverse open-access annotated video dataset of great apes in their natural environment. It comprises more than 7 million frames across ~20,000 camera trap videos of chimpanzees and gorillas collected at 14 field sites in tropical Africa as part of the Pan African Programme: The Cultured Chimpanzee. The footage is accompanied by a rich set of annotations and benchmarks making it suitable for training and testing a variety of challenging and ecologically important computer vision tasks including ape detection and behaviour recognition. Furthering AI analysis of camera trap information is critical given the International Union for Conservation of Nature now lists all species in the great ape family as either Endangered or Critically Endangered. We hope the dataset can form a solid basis for engagement of the AI community to improve performance, efficiency, and result interpretation in order to support assessments of great ape presence, abundance, distribution, and behaviour and thereby aid conservation efforts.

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  1. 2024BaboonLand Dataset: Tracking Primates in the Wild and Automating Behaviour Recognition from Drone Videoscited by 14
  2. 2025MammAlps: A multi-view video behavior monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alpscited by 14
  3. 2024Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wildcited by 10
  4. 2025The SA-FARI Dataset: Segment Anything in Footage of Animals for Recognition and Identificationcited by 6
  5. 2024AlphaChimp: Tracking and Behavior Recognition of Chimpanzeescited by 5
  6. 2025The PanAf-FGBG Dataset: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognitioncited by 5
  7. 2025WildLive: Near Real-time Visual Wildlife Tracking onboard UAVscited by 4
  8. 2025GorillaWatch: An Automated System for In-the-Wild Gorilla Re-Identification and Population Monitoringcited by 4
  9. 2025Self-supervised Learning on Camera Trap Footage Yields a Strong Universal Face Embeddercited by 3
  10. 2025Domain-Adaptive Pretraining Improves Primate Behavior Recognitioncited by 3
  11. 2025PriVi: Towards A General-Purpose Video Model For Primate Behavior In The Wildcited by 2
  12. 2025Towards Application-Specific Evaluation of Vision Models: Case Studies in Ecology and Biologycited by 1
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  3. 2026BigMaQ: A Big Macaque Motion and Animation Dataset Bridging Image and 3D Pose Representationscited by 1
  4. 2024From Forest to Zoo: Great Ape Behavior Recognition with ChimpBehavecited by 0
  5. 2025Mouse Lockbox Dataset: Behavior Recognition for Mice Solving Lockboxescited by 0
  6. 2025Zero-Shot Multi-Animal Tracking in the Wildcited by 0
  7. 2026CHIRP dataset: towards long-term, individual-level, behavioral monitoring of bird populations in the wildcited by 0
  8. 2026Prompting-MammAlps: Fine-Grained Text-to-Video Retrieval for Camera-Trap Datacited by 0
  9. 2026Automating Visual Recognition of Leprosy in Wild Chimpanzeescited by 0
  10. 2026The PanAf-SBR Dataset: Social Behaviour Recognition for Wild Great Apescited by 0