Hello, I'm Otto Brookes

I am a Machine Learning and Computer Vision PhD candidate at the University of Bristol and a machine learning researcher at the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation. My passion lies in advancing computer vision research to tackle global challenges, especially the biodiversity crisis.

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Publications

PanAfFGBG: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition

Otto Brookes, Maksim Kukushkin, Majid Mirmehdi, Colleen Stephens, Paula Dieguez, Thurston C. Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Kevin Lee, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia Meier, Emmanuelle Normand, Erin G. Wessling, Roman M. Wittig, Kevin Langergraber, Klaus Zuberbühler, Lukas Boesch, Thomas Schmid, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, 2025 (Oral)

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PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition

Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Colleen Stephens, Samuel Angedakin, Katherine Corogenes, Dervla Dowd, Paula Dieguez, Thurston C. Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Kevin Lee, Vera Leinert, Juan Lapuente, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia Meier, Mizuki Murai, Emmanuelle Normand, Virginie Vergnes, Erin G. Wessling, Roman M. Wittig, Kevin Langergraber, Nuria Maldonado, Xinyu Yang, Klaus Zuberbühler, Christophe Boesch, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt

International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024

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ChimpVLM: Ethogram-Enhanced Chimpanzee Behaviour Recognition

Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt

Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024

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Triple-Stream Deep Metric Learning of Great Ape Behavioural Actions

Otto Brookes, Majid Mirmehdi, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt

Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2024

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