Studying animal behavior outside the lab is hard. We show it can be done by using the open-source LabGym to analyze Punch from real-world, crowd-sourced videos.
Our goal: democratize animal behavior analysis with AI. We hope this project makes LabGym more accessible—and empowers anyone to study the animals they care about.
Huge credit to Bobby Tomlinson
@btoml.bsky.social, a talented computer scientist in my lab at the University of Michigan, who is leading this project. Three fantastic undergraduates Alisa Ficiciyan, Myra Lyu, and Alexander Chumak contributed to this work.
Scan the QR code to access the LabGym Punch webpage:
Bing Ye
We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation.
(Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @umlifesciences.bsky.social
We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation.
(Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @umlifesciences.bsky.social
You can download LabGym + our trained models and analyze new videos of Punch yourself.
We hope this helps fans better understand his behavior and daily life.
www.labgym.org/punch
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LabGym, an open-source AI software from the @byneuron.bsky.social lab, offering new insights into organisms from fruit flies to Japanese macaques to jaguars.
"... LabGym is here to democratize the use of AI for behavior analysis."
www.lsi.umich.edu/news/lsi-mag...
🧠🏡Following the recent LabGym site release, I’ll be highlighting newly introduced pages that clarify LabGym's goals, methods, and use.
The homepage introduces LabGym, an AI-driven tool for identifying + quantifying user-defined behaviors from video data: labgym.org
📚🛠️ New on the LabGym site, the Resources page centralizes our assistant agent, guides, tutorials, and more to help users get started with video-based behavioral analysis workflows.
Explore: labgym.org/resources
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Bobby Tomlinson
Bobby Tomlinson
U-M Life Sciences Institute
We used the AI-powered tool LabGym to analyze the behavior of Punch 🐒—a Japanese macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo who recently became a social media sensation.
(Original video source: @JapanZooStory YouTube Channel) #Punch #PunchTheMonkey #AnimalVideo #labgymbeh @umlifesciences.bsky.social
