Publications

2026

  • Michael Chimento*, Alex Hoi Hang Chan*, Lucy M. Aplin, Fumihiro Kano. 2026. Peering into the world of wild passerines with 3D-SOCS: synchronized video capture and posture estimation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution [paper]


  • Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Neha Singhal, Onur Kocahan, Andrea Meltzer, Saverio Lubrano, Miyako H Warrington, Michael Griesser*, Fumihiro Kano*, Hemal Naik*. accepted. CHIRP dataset: towards long-term, individual-level, behavioural monitoring of bird populations in the wild. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026 (CVPR) [preprint]

2025

  • Alex Hoi Hang Chan*, Otto Brookes*, Urs Waldmann, Hemal Naik, Iain D. Couzin, Majid Mirmehdi, Noël Adiko Houa, Emmanuelle Normand, Christophe Boesch, Lukas Boesch, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt*, Fumihiro Kano*. 2025. Towards Application-Specific Evaluation of Vision Models: Case Studies in Ecology and Biology, CV4Animals workshop, CVPR 2025. [preprint]


  • Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Prasetia Putra, Harald Schupp, Johanna Köchling, Jana Straßheim, Britta Renner, Julia Schroeder , William D. Pearse, Shinichi Nakagawa, Terry Burke, Michael Griesser, Andrea Meltzer, Saverio Lubrano, Fumihiro Kano. 2025. YOLO-Behaviour: A simple, flexible framework to automatically quantify animal behaviours from videos. Methods in Ecology and Evolution [paper]


  • Alex Hoi Hang Chan*, Jamie Dunning*, Terry Burke, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Daniel Dunleavy, Tim Evans, André Ferreira, Babette Fourie, Simon C Griffith, Friederike Hillemann, Julia Schroeder. 2025 Animal social networks are robust to changing association definitions. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology [paper]


  • Valentin Schmuker, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Bastian Goldluecke, Urs Waldmann. Towards Texture- And Shape-Independent 3D Keypoint Estimation in Birds. 2025. CV4Animals workshop, CVPR 2025. [preprint]


2024

  • Urs Waldmann*, Alex Hoi Hang Chan*, Hemal Naik, Máté Nagy, Iain D Couzin, Oliver Deussen, Bastian Goldluecke, Fumihiro Kano. 2024. 3D-MuPPET: 3D Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking  International Journal of Computer Vision (2024). [paper]


  • Samraat Pawar, Paul J Huxley, Thomas RC Smallwood, Miles L Nesbit, Alex HH Chan, Marta S Shocket, Leah R Johnson, Dimitrios-Georgios Kontopoulos, Lauren Cator. 2024 Variation in temperature of peak trait performance constrains adaptation of arthropod populations to climatic warming. Nature Ecology and Evolution [paper]


  • Schroeder, Julia, Jamie Dunning, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Heung Ying Janet Chik, and Terry Burke. 2024 Not so social in old age: demography as one driver of decreasing sociality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences  [paper]


  • Jessica Kay Hunter,  Jamie Dunning, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Terry Burke, Julia Schroeder. 2024. The genetic basis for social network traits in the wild. EcoEvoRxiv [preprint]


2023

  • Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Liu Jing Qi, Terry Burke, Will Pearse*, Julia Schroeder*. 2023. Comparison of manual, machine learning, and hybrid methods for video annotation to extract parental care data. Journal of Avian Biology ​​​[paper]​


  • Jamie Dunning, Terry Burke, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Heung Ying Janet Chik, Tim Evans, Julia Schroeder. 2023. Opposite-sex associations are linked with annual fitness, but sociality is stable over lifetime Behavioral Ecology . 34(3), pp.315-324. [paper]