MacaquePose: A Novel “In the Wild” Macaque Monkey Pose Dataset

Recently, Computer vision for animals is getting more traction. Several works on this topic have already been discussed in this channel: post [1], post [2] , post [3].

❓ Why?
Pose estimation is fundamental for analyzing the relationship between the animal’s behaviors and its brain functions and malfunctions. And Macaque monkeys are excellent non-human primate models, especially for studying neuroscience.
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🏛 Dataset
This dataset provides keypoints for macaques in naturalistic scenes, it consists of 13k images and 16k monkey instances.
- 17 keypoints and instance segmentation for each monkey in COCO format.
- Annotations are of high quality because crowd-sourced annotations were curated and refined by 8 researchers working specifically with macaques.