Otto Brookes

PhD Candidate

A portrait of Keunhong Park

obrookes.github.io

obrookes

otto.brookes@bristol.ac.uk

Education

University of Bristol
PhD in Machine Learning & Computer Vision.
2020 - Present

Employment

Wild Chimpanzee Foundation
Computer Vision Lead
2024 - (current)
Bristol, UK

Publications

PanAfFGBG: Understanding the Impact of Backgrounds in Wildlife Behaviour Recognition
O. Brookes, M. Kukushkin, M. Mirmehdi, C. Stephens, P. Dieguez, T. Hicks, S. Jones, K. Lee, M. McCarthy, A. Meier, E. Normand, E. Wessling, R. Wittig, K. Langergraber, K. Zuberbühler, L. Boesch, T. Schmid, M. Arandjelovic, H. Kühl, T. Burghardt
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, 2025 (Oral)
PanAf20K: A Large Video Dataset for Wild Ape Detection and Behaviour Recognition
O. Brookes, M. Mirmehdi, C. Stephens, S. Angedakin, K. Corogenes, D. Dowd, P. Dieguez, T. Hicks, S. Jones, K. Lee, V. Leinert, J. Lapuente, M. McCarthy, A. Meier, M. Murai, E. Normand, V. Vergnes, E. Wessling, R. Wittig, K. Langergraber, N. Maldonado, X. Yang, K. Zuberbühler, C. Boesch, M. Arandjelovic, H. Kühl, T. Burghardt
International Journal of Computer Vision, 2024
ChimpVLM: Ethogram-Enhanced Chimpanzee Behaviour Recognition
O. Brookes, M. Mirmehdi, H. Kühl, T. Burghardt
Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2024
Triple-Stream Deep Metric Learning of Great Ape Behavioural Actions
O. Brookes, M. Mirmehdi, H. Kühl, T. Burghardt
Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2024