🐦🗣️ It's today! Join us in just a few hours for our seminar "The Costs of Collective Behaviour" with Dr. Damien Farine on YouTube! 🎥🌍 Discover the hidden challenges of group living in birds. See you soon!
📅 Time: Today, 2pm GMT
📺 Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9zLCvaoKw
📣 SEMINAR SERIES 2025 – 1 week to go!📣
Join us Tuesday 29 April at 2pm GMT for the first seminar of 2025!
🐦 Dr. Damien Farine (ANU) on The Costs of Collective Behaviour
📍 Live on YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9zLCvaoKw
✅ Free & open to all!
#AnimalBehaviour #OnlineSeminar #CollectiveBehaviour
Learned at a conference a couple of days ago that our Ising model proposed in 2017 to describe collective U-turns in fish schools could now be labelled as a 'non-reciprocal Ising model'; how cool that there is a name for this class of models -- meaning it is of interest for physicists!
Our early non-reciprocal Ising model: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.0251 🐟
8-AUG-2024
Are #birds flying atoms?
Physical and biological systems are different. But are they? A new study on JSTAT observes that similarities might be greater than we think
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1053550 #science #CollectiveBehaviour #statisticalMechanics
25-APR-2024
How do birds flock? Researchers do the math to reveal previously unknown #aerodynamic phenomenon
Findings have potential applications for transportation and energy
What advantages do #robots offer in the study of #collectivebehaviour? How is #robotic research influenced by biological systems? And what robot experiments are planned in the #UniKonstanz Imaging Hangar? Interview with three roboticists from our Cluster of Excellence Collective Behaviour (CASCB) now available in the university's online magazine: https://t1p.de/gcewm
6-MAR-2024
Do some electric #fish sense the world through comrades' auras?
Scientists uncover evidence for a new form of collective sensing that appears to enable elephantnose fish to extend their perceptual reach
New preprint out, with Richard Mann and @elva, where we take a collective behaviour look on the emergence of foraging area in ants 🐜
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.20.581181v1
#CollectiveBehaviour #animalbehavior #ants #socialinsects #modelling #statisticalphysics
Our #SummerSchool is now open for enrolment.
If you are a PhD student or early post-doc interested in collective phenomena at different scales, this school is for you :-)
#Konstanz School of #CollectiveBehaviour 2024
Deadline to apply: April 5th, 2024
The Konstanz School of Collective Behaviour will take place between 22nd July 2024 – 9th August 2024 at the University of Konstanz.
For further information and application: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/kscb/application-procedure/
10k locusts in the #ImagingHangar, 165 publications, and one visit from our Minister! We look back to an incredibly varied and productive year of #collectivebehaviour research. Full 2023 review: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/about-us/annual-reports/
Collective behaviour is all around. The #UniKonstanz Cluster of Excellence Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour investigates #CollectiveBehaviour since 2019! With this film we invite you to dive into the swarm to learn more about us.
Watch the whole film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MkSuBK0iI
Further details: https://www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/collective-behaviour/
We launched our project page for 3D-MuPPET https://alexhang212.github.io/3D-MuPPET/.
A framework to estimate and track 3D poses of up to 10 #pigeons at interactive speed. We show that 3D-MuPPET also works in natural environments without model fine-tuning on additional annotations.
#MuPPET
#PoseEstimation
#3dpose
#tracking
#computervision
#collectivebehaviour
#UniKonstanz
#CBehav
#cv4animals
Check out our latest pre-print on #arXiv https://sciencecast.org/casts/8g1z2dov39ms
We present 3D-MuPPET, a framework to estimate and track 3D poses of up to 10 #pigeons at interactive speed. We show that 3D-MuPPET also works in natural environments without model fine-tuning on additional annotations.
#MuPPET #PoseEstimation #3dpose #tracking #computervision #collectivebehaviour #UniKonstanz #CBehav #cv4animals
Poster presentation (AM session) at #CVPRW2023 "CV4Animals" at #CVPR2023 in #Vancouver
#MuPPET #CVPR #PoseEstimation #3dpose #computervision #collectivebehaviour #UniKonstanz #CBehav #cv4animals
Poster presentation (AM session) at #CVPRW2023 "CV4Animals" at #CVPR2023 in #Vancouver
#MuPPET #CVPR #PoseEstimation #tracking #computervision #collectivebehaviour #UniKonstanz #CBehav #cv4animals
Our annotated single #pigeon #data with RGB images and corresponding #keypoint #annotations is available now.
https://zenodo.org/record/7989831#.ZHcwO17P0uU
You can check it out with I-MuPPET.
https://github.com/urs-waldmann/i-muppet/
#MuPPET #computervision #collectivebehaviour #UniKonstanz #CBehav #PoseEstimation #tracking
Our #pigeon #tracking #benchmark is available now.
https://zenodo.org/record/7038391#.ZHcs8V7P0uU
Our results, that you can improve upon, can be found here https://urs-waldmann.github.io/i-muppet/.
#MuPPET #computervision #collectivebehaviour #UniKonstanz #CBehav
We provide pre-trained weights for #pigeons to use with I-MuPPET. We hope that this will help to boost the study of #collectivebehaviour.
https://zenodo.org/record/7037589#.ZHcsFl7P0uU
https://urs-waldmann.github.io/i-muppet/
#MuPPET #computervision #UniKonstanz #CBehav #PoseEstimation #tracking
2-Mar-2023
Stick to your lane: Hidden order in chaotic crowds
Mathematical research from the University of Bath in the UK brings new understanding of crowd formation and behaviour
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/981467 #science #CollectiveBehaviour #psychology #crowds
