From sensing to semantics: a comprehensive survey of AI-based animal behavior monitoring via pose estimation, behavior recognition, and UAV-enabled observation

Tong Yu Dan-Hui Zhang Jian-Yang Zhang Kai-Ning Ge Shuang Yin Song-Tao Guo Si-Yan Yang Peng-Fei Song Tong-Zuo Zhang Peng-Fei Xu

Sep 2026 · Multimedia Systems · Vol 32 · 0 citations · 224 references

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This comprehensive review on animal behavior intelligent monitoring aims to systematically summarize the latest advanced technological frontiers of advanced artificial intelligence in animal behavior monitoring, also to identify the research challenges and explore future research directions in this field.

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