Hello Animal Re-ID Enthusiasts,

We have exciting news to share with all of you. We (Graham Taylor, Tilo Burghardt, Jason Parham, Sara Beery, and Stefan Schneider) will be hosting an Animal Re-Identification Workshop during WACV2020 (March 2-5th, 2020) in Snowmass Village, Colorado. This will be a great opportunity to bring the ecological and ML communities together to celebrate and discuss all the exciting challenges in re-ID, across theimage, audio, and videodomains.We would like to encourage contributors from the machine learning community to present cutting edge research relevant to animal re-identification, whether image, video, or audio processing. We would also encourage ecologists with limited to no machine learning expertise to come and discuss their ecological research problems in an attempt to brainstorm how machine learning may be of assistance. In addition, we welcome everyone in between.

Topics that are anticipated, but are not required, include:

• Machine Learning for Human/Animal Re-Identification
• Vocal Recognition for Re-Identification
• Human/Animal Pose Estimation
• Behaviour Analysis from Audio/Video
• Data Augmentation for Limited Datasets
• Learning from Simulated Data
• Metric Learning
• One-Shot/ Zero-Shot Learning
• GPS Location Prediction
• Interpretability of AI Systems
• AI Proposals for Challenging Ecological Problems
• Making Public Ecological Datasets
• Best Practices for Data Collection and Curation

If you have any works you feel are suitable, the Paper Submission deadline isDecember 15th, 2019.

We call for papers of three categories: Contributed Papers, Extended Abstracts, and Proposals:

• Contributed Papers will be published as part of the "WACV Workshop Proceedings" and should, therefore, follow the same guideline as the main conference. Paper submission guidelines of WACV can be accessed here (https://wacv20.wacv.net/index.php/calls/).

• Extended Abstracts can be up to 4 pages in length, references not included.  This option is meant to provide a non-archival submission option for previously published work, or work that is intended to be published at a future venue. Supplementary appendices are allowed but will be read at the discretion of the reviewers.
• Proposals can be up to 2 pages in length, references not included.  This option is intended to provide a venue for experts to suggest new re-identification projects to the computer vision community for discussion or to develop collaborations. Providing new data is desired but not required.

For additional info on submission details, speakers, motivations, contact info, and more, please visit ourAnimal Re-ID Website (https://sites.google.com/corp/view/wacv2020animalreid/).

Thanks very much for considering this exciting opportunity. If you have any questions please reach out to the primary organizers Stefan and Sara found on the website.

WACV2020 Animal Re-ID Organizers