GeorgeHux/Animal-World-Updated

Animal World (Updated)

Cross-species social animal pose dataset with RGB images, per-instance masks, and COCO-style annotations.

The dataset website and additional information are available at:

https://georgehux.com/Animal-World-project-page/

Layout

• Animal_World/: RGB images organized by species/category folders
• Animal_World_Mask/: per-instance segmentation masks
• Annotations/: JSON annotation files

Viewer subsets

• images (default): one row per image with image and label
• masks: per-instance mask PNG files

Citation

If you use this dataset in your research, please cite the following paper:

@inproceedings{animalworld2026,
  title  = {Animal World: A Cross-Species Dataset for Social Animal Pose Understanding},
  author = {Hu, Xuyi and Lyu, Jin and Zhang, Shaojie and Ma, Ke and Wang, Houtianfu and Liu, Siwei and Liu, Jiuming and Zuffi, Silvia and Zhao, Jiachen and An, Liang and Goetz, Stefan},
  year   = {2026}
}