*You can download my CV here.

1. CHIRP dataset: towards long-term, individual-level, behavioural monitoring of bird populations in the wild

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2026 [pre-print]

Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Neha Singhal, Onur Kocahan, Andrea Meltzer, Saverio Lubrano, Miyako Warrington, Michael Griesser, Fumihiro Kano, Hemal Naik.

2. Towards application-specific evaluation of vision models: Case studies in ecology and biology

CVPR, CV4Animals Workshop 2025 [Paper]

Alex Hoi Hang Chan, Otto Brookes, Urs Waldmann, Hemal Naik, Iain D Couzin, Majid Mirmehdi, Noël Adiko Houa, Emmanuelle Normand, Christophe Boesch, Lukas Boesch, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Tilo Burghardt, Fumihiro Kano.

3. Establishing bio-logging data collections as living archives of animal life on Earth

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2025 [Paper]

Sarah Davidson, Francesca Cagnacci , Peggy Newman , Holger Dettki , Ferdinando Urbano, Peter Desmet, Lenore Bajona , Edmund Bryant , Ana Carneiro , Professor Maria Dias , Ei Fujioka , David Gambin , Xavier Hoenner , Mr Colin Hunter , Akiko Kato , Connie Kot , Bart Kranstauber , Chi Hin Lam , Denis Lepage , Hemal Naik , Jonathan Pye , Ana Sequeira , Vardis Tsontos , Emiel van Loon , Danny Vo, Christian Rutz.

4. Advancing animal behaviour research using drone technology

Animal Behavior 2025 [Paper]

Lucia Pedrazzi, Hemal Naik, Chris Sandbrook, Miguel Lurgi, Ines Fürtbauer, Andrew J. King.

5. BuckTales: A multi-UAV dataset for multi-object tracking and re-identification of wild antelopes

NeurIPS 2024. [Paper] [Dataset & Code]

Hemal Naik, Junran Yang, Dipin Das, Margaret C Crofoot, Akanksha Rathore, Vivek Hari Sridhar.

6. 3D-MuPPET: 3D Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking

Internationa Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV) 2024 [Paper] [Dataset & Code]

Urs Waldmann, Alex Hoi Hang Chan, H Naik, Mate Nagy, Iain D. Couzin, Oliver Deussen, Bastian Goldlueke, Fumihiro Kano.

7. SMART-BARN: Scalable Multimodal Arena for Real-time Tracking Behavior of Animals in laRge Numbers.

Science Advances 2023. [Paper] [Dataset & Code]

M Nagy, H Naik (co-first), F Kano, NV Carlson, JC Koblitz, M Wikelski, ID Couzin

8. 3D-POP: An automated annotation approach to facilitate markerless 2D-3D tracking of freely moving birds with marker-based motion capture.

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023. [Paper] [Dataset] [Github]

H Naik, A Chan(co-first), J Yang, M Delacoux, ID Couzin, F Kano, M Nagy.

10. I-MuPPET: Interactive multi-pigeon pose estimation and tracking

DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2022. [Paper] [Dataset & Code]

U Waldmann, H Naik, N Máté, F Kano, ID Couzin, O Deussen, B Goldlücke.

9. Head-tracking of freely-behaving pigeons in a motion-capture system reveals the selective use of visual field regions

Scientific Reports 2022 [Paper] 

F Kano, H Naik, G Keskin, ID Couzin, M Nagy

11. Animals in Virtual Environments

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 2020 [Paper] [Detailed Video]

H Naik, R Bastian, N Navab, ID Couzin.

12. DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning

Elife 2019 [Paper] 

JM Graving, D Chae, H Naik, L Li, B Koger, BR Costelloe, ID Couzin

13. Frustration free pose computation for spatial AR devices in industrial scenario

International Symposium for Mixed and Augmented Reality 2016

Hemal Naik, Mahmoud bahaa, Federico Tombari, Peter Keitler, Nassir Navab.

15. A step closer to reality: Closed loop dynamic registration correction in spatial augmented reality

ISMAR 2015 [Paper] 

Hemal Naik, Federico Tombari, Christoph Resch, Peter Keitler, Nassir Navab

14. Exploiting photogrammetric targets for industrial AR

ISMAR 2015 [Paper] 

Hemal Naik, Yuji Oyamada, Peter Keitler, Nassir Navab

16. On-Site Semi-Automatic Calibration and Registration of a Projector-Camera System Using Arbitrary Objects with Known Geometry

ISMAR 2015 [Paper] 

Christoph Resch, Hemal Naik, Peter Keitler, Steven Benkhardt, Gudrun Klinker

17. Video-guided calibration of an augmented reality mobile C-arm

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 2014 [Paper] 

Xin Chen, Hemal Naik, Leijing Wang, Nassir Navab, Pascal Fallavollita