Alex Chan
@AlexHHChan
3D Posture Tracking Birds🐤 | PhD @CBehav @imprs_qbee Konstanz | CMEE Alumni @Silwood_Park | 🇭🇰
Paper now out in @MethodsEcolEvol!! Looking forward to seeing how the community applies this method. Since the preprint, I updated the documentation and even made a video tutorial. Do check it out! [paper] doi.org/10.1111/2041-2… [documentation] alexhang212.github.io/YOLO_Behaviour…
New preprint out (finally) !!!! We present YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible, easy to implement, robust framework for automated behavioural annotation from videos. @CBehav biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
📖Published📖 Chimento et al., develop a 3D Synchronized Outdoor Camera System (3D-SOCS): an inexpensive, mobile and automated method for collecting behavioural data on animals using synchronized video frames from Raspberry Pi controlled cameras 📸 buff.ly/4nr5m4y
Cv4Animals making it on the big stage 🦍 Congrats @otto_brookes's dataset chosen as one of the cvpr award candidates!!
Another fantastic #CV4Animals workshop in the books! Huge thanks to our incredible speakers, @Grant_Van_Horn, Tilo, Hedvig, Carlos, Vivek, and the amazing organizing team! Hope to see everyone again next year!
Hot off the press 📢: one of the most surprising and unsettling findings of my PhD. A novel social tradition emerged in the tool-using capuchins of Jicarón island… abducting and carrying the infants of another species. Thread with gifs, videos, and all the bizarre details 👇
Humans have many unusual traditions. But did you know animals’ strange behaviors can become culture too? Out now in Current Biology (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…) we document a bizarre tradition: interspecies infant abduction. Interactive timeline (ab.mpg.de/671374) 🧵(1/12)
Interested in biology and comparative psychology, and working in an interdisciplinary project and research team? I’m advertising two PhD positions on the evolutionary origins of cooperative sociality and communication (start 1.10.) @UniKonstanz @CBehav 👇 links below!
Just upgraded to the new samsung flagship phone, cool to see diffusion models (I think) integrated so seamlessly into consumer products for object removal 🤯 @ Toyama, Japan Pic 1: original Pic 2: removing treetops Pic 3: removing the whole park 😆
Please share around this Job ad : Are you excited about foraging ? do you want to analyse multidimensional large scale behavioural, metabolic and neural data ? I have a job opening for you :D I have an opening for a postdoc in my @IntBioPhysics group. The Postdoc will be…
🚨 Only 1 week left! 🚨 The submission deadline of the #CVPR2025 #CV4Animals Workshop is fast approaching! ⏳ Get your work ready and register for Track 1 now! 🔗Register here: openreview.net/group?id=thecv… 🔗 More info: cv4animals.com
The submission deadline for the 5th CV4Animals workshop is in two weeks on 28 March at 11:59 pm (Pacific time). We welcome submissions in Track 1 (unpublished work) and Track 2 (published work). For more details see our website: cv4animals.com See you all @CVPR!
The submission deadline for the 5th CV4Animals workshop is in two weeks on 28 March at 11:59 pm (Pacific time). We welcome submissions in Track 1 (unpublished work) and Track 2 (published work). For more details see our website: cv4animals.com See you all @CVPR!
Excited to bring the 5th CV4Animals Workshop to #CVPR2025 @CVPR We welcome submissions in 2 tracks: 1) unpublished work up to 4 pages 2) papers published within last 2 years Submit by Mar 28 & join us with amazing talks in Nashville: cv4animals.com 🦒🪼🐬🐿️🦩🐢🦘🦜🦥🦋
🚀COSMOS is BACK!!!💫 The Computational School on Modeling Social and collective behavior (COSMOS) will take place in RIKEN, Tokyo, between 29 Sept - 3 Oct, organised by me and fantastic @TheCharleyWu ! Application deadline: 25th April. More details 👉️ cosmossummerschool.github.io
Here is a short story of how this project came to be, from being an undergrad @ImperialLifeSci, looking at sparrow videos with @Jj255, to my master's project @willpearse, to now publishing this as part of my PhD! @CBehav
Head over to the Methods Blog to find out the story behind YOLO-Behaviour, a framework for automated behavioural coding from videos! 🐦 @AlexHHChan buff.ly/3Xft0ax
Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. Our latest paper in @ScienceMagazine @maxplanckpress @UniKonstanz @CBehav science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
📖Published📖 Check out our recent research article, presenting YOLO-Behaviour, a flexible framework for identifying visually distinct behaviours from video recordings 👇 buff.ly/4gJxtsL
New paper out in @CurrentBiology! A primer on cognition in multi-species sociality, focusing on the octopus-fish case 🐙🐟🐠 Read it here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Nice illustration to go along w our study 😊
"When in Rome...?" Not Always! 🐦 Great tits were swapped between groups with different puzzle-solving tricks for rewards. When the new spot had better snacks, they copied the locals to score the prize. But if nothing changed, they stuck to their own ways. Turns out, they only…
📣 preprint klaxon: New study with Edwin Dalmaijer @DrBarbaraKlump @LucyMAplin where we take a closer look at the innovation arms race between cockatoos and residents of Sydney doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…