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How Drones and Machine Learning are Changing the Way Behavior Can be Studied

Dan Rubenstein.

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA

Abstract


Although behavior is typically studied by observing and recording what animals do, the means of doing so has changed over time.  Sightings from hand-held binoculars, written down by hand in notebooks gave way to zoomed-in video recordings, some collected remotely from camera traps.  Today the scale and scope of behavioral research is being transformed by visual recordings from swarms of smart drones, processed by AI and machine learning.  Determining individual time budgets, assessing collective flight from simulated predatory attacks, demonstrating patterns of autonomous tracking and predicting future habitat choices by wildlife and herded livestock will illustrate what drones and AI can and are poised to do.

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