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Agent-Centric Animal Pose Forecasting

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arXiv:2607. 19548v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding animal behavior at an algorithmic level -- what animals attend to, how they form internal models and plans, and how this maps to action -- remains a central challenge in neuroscience and ethology.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

MouseGPT: A Large-scale Vision-Language Model for Mouse Behavior Analysis

arXiv:2503.10212v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Analyzing animal behavior is crucial in neuroscience, yet deciphering its intricate dynamics remains challenging. Traditional machine vision approa...

By Teng Xu, Taotao Zhou, Youjia Wang, Peng Yang, Simin Tang, Kuixiang Shao, Zifeng Tang, Yifei Liu, Xinyuan Chen, Yihan Liu, Zhengning Xu, Boyang Xia, Hongshuang Wang, Xiaohui Wang, Huoqing Luo, Jingya Wang, Ji Hu, Jingyi Yu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 30

Sparse-View Interpretable 3D Animal Behavior Representations for Neural Encoding and Decoding

arXiv:2609.36217v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A deeper understanding of brain function requires a precise, structured characterization of behavior.Yet, extracting behavioral representations from vi...

By Xinming Dai, Qihang Jin, Tianshu Tan, Baiyuan Chen, Hanrui Lyu, Lenny Aharon, Kyle Daruwalla, Xun Helen Hou, Matthew R. Whiteway, Liam Paninski, Yizi Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

MC-DeTra: Motion-Consistent Joint Object Detection and Socially-Aware Trajectory Forecasting in Bird's-Eye-View Images

MC-DeTra is a reimplementation of the DeTra model that jointly performs object detection and socially-aware trajectory forecasting in bird's-eye-view images. It introduces motion-consistency mechanisms that add supervision from each actor’s past motion, surrounding traffic occupancy, and a consistency constraint aligning predicted heading with motion direction. The added losses are train‑only and inference‑safe, improving dynamic trajectory forecasting on the Waymo Open Dataset while maintaining or enhancing detection accuracy.

By Vladislav Diuzhev, Dmitry Yudin
arXiv AI
Aug 5

MIMIC-MJX: Neuromechanical Emulation of Animal Behavior

arXiv:2511. 20532v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The primary output of the nervous system is movement and behavior.

By Charles Y. Zhang (Harvard University), Yuanjia Yang (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Aidan Sirbu (Mila), Elliott T. T. Abe (University of Washington), Emil W\"arnberg (Harvard University), Eric J. Leonardis (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Diego E. Aldarondo (Harvard University), Adam Lee (Harvard University), Aaditya Prasad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jason Foat (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Kaiwen Bian (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Joshua Park (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Rusham Bhatt (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Vyom N. Patel (Neuromatch), Hutton Saunders (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Austin O. Barbano (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Akira Nagamori (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Ayesha R. Thanawalla (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Kee Wui Huang (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Fabian Plum (Imperial College London), Hendrik K. Beck (Imperial College London), Steven W. Flavell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Labonte (Imperial College London), Blake A. Richards (Mila), Bingni W. Brunton (University of Washington), Eiman Azim (Salk Institute for Biological Studies), Bence P. \"Olveczky (Harvard University), Talmo D. Pereira (Salk Institute for Biological Studies)
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

What 30,000 Hours of Ego-centric Video Does Not Teach

The paper investigates how scaling ego‑centric human video data affects world model performance. Using 30,000 hours of video across diverse scenes, the authors find that while agent‑level fidelity improves markedly with more data, object‑level fidelity remains low and improves slowly. They demonstrate that careful visual conditioning and a new supervision scheme can shift model capacity toward object dynamics, yet a substantial gap persists, indicating that data quantity alone is insufficient for full world modeling.

By Jiahua Dong, Anurag Bagchi, Yash Jangir, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Sergey Zakharov, Martial Hebert, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Yu-Xiong Wang, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Pavel Tokmakov