Awesome Computational Primatology

This repository contains the corpus of projects at the intersection of deep learning and non-human primatology since around the time AlexNet was published (~2012). This repo is intended for papers that provide novel approaches or applications in computational primatology. We occasionally include datasets which contain both primate and non-primate animals. Contributions and edits welcome!

By compiling and highlighting this growing literature, we hope it will inspire future researchers to open-source their own models and data to advance the field.

Consider contributing to this community by curating a dataset or training OSS models on any of these datasets!

Topic Legend

• PD = Primate detection
• BPE = Body pose estimation
• FD = Face detection
• FLE = Facial landmark estimation
• FR = Face recognition and/or Re-Identification
• HD = Hand detection
• HPE = Hand pose estimation
• BR = Behavior recognition / understanding / modeling
• AM = Avatar/Mesh
• SI = Species Identification
• RL = Reinforcement learning
• O = Other

By year

Year	Paper	Topic	Animal	Model?	Data?	Image/Video Count
2024	PanAf20K	PD, BR	Apes	No	Yes	20k
2024	Gris et al.	FD, O	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2024	MacAction	AM	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2023	MammalNet	BR	Cross-species	Yes	Yes	18k videos
2023	Abbaspoor, Rahman et al.	3D BPE	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2023	Mimura et al.	BR	Macaque, Marmoset	No	No	N/A
2023	Schofield et al.	FD, FR	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2023	Yang et al.	PD	Great Ape	No	No	N/A
2023	ASBAR	BR	Chimp, Gorilla	Yes	Yes	5,440 labels
2023	DeepWild	2D BPE	Chimp, Bonobo	Yes	Upon request	N/A
2023	Kaneko et al.	3D BM	Marmoset	No	No	N/A
2023	Matsumoto et al.	3D BM	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2023	ChimpAct	2D BPE, FR, BR	Yes	Yes	160,500
2023	OpenMonkeyChallenge	2D BPE	Cross-species	No	Yes	111,529
2023	Pillai et al.	PD	Cross-Species	No	No	N/A
2023	Reddy et al.	PD	Cross-species	No	No	N/A
2023	Bala et al.	3D BPE	Cross-species	No	No	N/A
2023	Brookes et al.	Apes	No	No	N/A
2022	Animal Kingdom	2D BPE, BR	Cross-species	No	Yes	N/A
2022	APT-36K	2D BPE	Cross-species	No	Yes	< 36K
2022	Ngo et al.	BR	Marmoset	No	No	N/A
2022	Brachiation	RL	Gibbon	Yes	No	N/A
2022	SIPEC	2D BPE, FR, BR	Macaque	Some	Upon request	N/A
2021	Brookes & Burghardt	FR	Gorilla	No	Yes	>5,000
2021	Bain et al.	BR	Chimp	No	Some	N/A
2021	OpenApePose	2D BPE	Cross-species	No	Yes	71,868
2021	AP10k	2D BPE	Cross-species	Yes	Yes	10,015 (675 primates)
2021	MacaquePose	2D BPE	Macaque	Yes	Yes	13,000
2021	GreatApe Dictionary	Data	Chimp	No	Upon request	N/A
2021	Negrete et al.	2D BPE	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2021	LiftPose3D	3D BPE	Cross-species	Yes	No	N/A
2020	Kumar & Shingala	PD	Langur	No	No	N/A
2020	Sakib & Burghardt	BR	Chimp	Yes	Yes: Labeled Pan African	180,000
2020	AnimalWeb	FD, FLE	Cross-species	No	Yes	21,921 (not all prims)
2020	OpenMonkeyStudio	3D BPE	Macaque	Upon request	Yes	195,228
2020	Tri-A	FD, FR	41 species	No	Yes	102,399
2020	Sanakoyeu et al.	AM	Chimp	Kind of	No	N/A
2020	EthoLoop	3D BPE	Lemur	No	Upon request	N/A
2019	Bain et al.	PD, FD, FR	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2019	Schofield et al.	FD, FR	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2019	Yang et al.	PD	Chimp	No	Yes: Labeled Pan African	180,000
2019	Labuguen et al.	2D BPE	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2018	Sinha, Agarwal et al.	PD	Cross-species	No	No	N/A
2018	Deb et al.	FR	Cross-species	No	No	N/A
2018	Witham	FLE	Macaque	Yes	Yes	4,000
2018	Labuguen et al.	PD	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2017	LemurFaceID	FD, FR	Lemur	No	Yes	462
2017	Brust et al.	FD, FR	Gorilla	No	No	N/A
2016	Crunchant et al.	FD	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2016	Nakamura et al.	3D BM	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2016	Freytag et al.	FR	Chimp	No	Yes	6,486
2014	Ballesta et al.	3D, O	Macaque	No	No	N/A
2013	Loos & Ernst	FD, FR	Chimp	No	For purchase	6,522
2012	Loos & Pfitzer	FR	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2012	Loos & Ernst	FD, Fr	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2011	Loos et al.	FR	Chimp	No	No	N/A
2011	Ernst & Küblbeck	FD, SI	Chimp, Gorilla	No	No	N/A

Reviews

Year	Tag	Topic	Animal
2024	Vogg et al.	Review	All
2021	Hayden et al.	Review	All

Datasets that contain non-human primate data with other animal data

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