🐒 Awesome Computational Primatology

A curated list of machine learning research for non-human primatology

67 Papers

14 Years

12 With Code

17 With Data

🏷️ Topic Legend

PD Primate Detection

BPE Body Pose Estimation

FD Face Detection

FLE Facial Landmark Estimation

FR Face Recognition

FAC Facial Action Coding

BR Behavior Recognition

AM Avatar/Mesh

SI Species Identification

RL Reinforcement Learning

Year	Paper	Topic	Animal	Model?	Data?	Image/Video Count
2025	PrimateFace	FD, FLE, FR, FAC	Cross-genus	Yes	Yes	200K+ images
2025	PriVi	PD, BR	Apes	N/A	Multiple	N/A
2025	Igaue et al.	FD, FAC	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2025	Iashin et al.	FD, FR	Chimp	Yes	N/A	N/A
2025	Fuchs et al.	BR	Chimp	Yes	Yes	215,000
2024	Scott et al.	BPE	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	ChimpVLM	BR	Chimp	N/A	Used PanAf20k	N/A
2024	AlphaChimp	PD, BR	Chimp	Yes	ChimpAct	N/A
2024	Paulet et al.	FR	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	PanAf20K	PD, BR	Apes	No	Yes	20k
2024	Gris et al.	FD, O	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	MacAction	AM	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	LabGym	BR	Macaque	Yes	Yes	N/A
2024	Cheng et al.	BR	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	PRIMAT (Vogg et al.)	2D BPE	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	Xing et al.	O	Marmoset	N/A	N/A	N/A
2024	Menegas et al.	BR	Marmoset	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	GorillaVision	FD, FR	Gorilla	Yes	N/A	832
2023	Abbaspoor, Rahman et al.	3D BPE	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Mimura et al.	BR	Macaque, Marmoset	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Schofield et al.	FD, FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Yang et al.	PD	Great Ape	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	ASBAR	BR	Chimp, Gorilla	Yes	Yes	5,440 labels
2023	DeepWild	2D BPE	Chimp, Bonobo	Yes	Upon request	N/A
2023	Kaneko et al.	3D BPE	Marmoset	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Matsumoto et al.	3D BPE	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	ChimpAct	2D BPE, FR, BR	Chimp	Yes	Yes	160,500
2023	OpenMonkeyChallenge	2D BPE	Cross-species	N/A	Yes	111,529
2023	Pillai et al.	PD	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Reddy et al.	PD	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Bala et al.	3D BPE	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2023	Brookes et al.	BR	Apes	N/A	N/A	N/A
2022	Ngo et al.	BR	Marmoset	N/A	N/A	N/A
2022	Brachiation	RL	Gibbon	Yes	N/A	N/A
2022	SIPEC	2D BPE, FR, BR	Macaque	Some	Upon request	N/A
2022	Ueno et al.	FR	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2021	Brookes & Burghardt	FR	Gorilla	N/A	Yes	>5,000
2021	Bain et al.	BR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2021	OpenApePose	2D BPE	Cross-species	N/A	Yes	71,868
2021	MacaquePose	2D BPE	Macaque	Yes	Yes	13,000
2021	GreatApe Dictionary	BR	Chimp	N/A	Upon request	N/A
2021	Negrete et al.	2D BPE	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2020	Kumar & Shingala	PD	Langur	N/A	N/A	N/A
2020	Sakib & Burghardt	BR	Chimp	Yes	Yes: Labeled Pan African	180,000
2020	OpenMonkeyStudio	3D BPE	Macaque	Upon request	Yes	195,228
2020	Tri-A	FD, FR	41 species	N/A	Yes	102,399
2020	Sanakoyeu et al.	AM	Chimp	Kind of	N/A	N/A
2020	EthoLoop	3D BPE	Lemur	N/A	Upon request	N/A
2019	Bain et al.	PD, FD, FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2019	Schofield et al.	FD, FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2019	Yang et al.	PD	Chimp	N/A	Yes: Labeled Pan African	180,000
2019	Labuguen et al.	2D BPE	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2018	Sinha, Agarwal et al.	PD	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2018	Deb et al.	FR	Cross-species	N/A	N/A	N/A
2018	Witham	FLE	Macaque	N/A	Yes	4,000
2018	Labuguen et al.	PD	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2017	LemurFaceID	FD, FR	Lemur	N/A	Yes	462
2017	Brust et al.	FD, FR	Gorilla	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016	Crunchant et al.	FD	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016	Nakamura et al.	AM	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2016	Freytag et al.	FR	Chimp	N/A	Yes	6,486
2014	Ballesta et al.	3D, O	Macaque	N/A	N/A	N/A
2013	Loos & Ernst	FD, FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	6,522
2012	Loos & Pfitzer	FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2012	Loos & Ernst	FD, FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2011	Loos et al.	FR	Chimp	N/A	N/A	N/A
2011	Ernst & Küblbeck	FD, SI	Chimp, Gorilla	N/A	N/A	N/A