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This setup is impressive, but perhaps overly complex. I have the feeling that it would be far simpler to set up a webcam and use computer vision techniques to m
by bottled_poe 11y ago
This setup is impressive, but perhaps overly complex. I have the feeling that it would be far simpler to set up a webcam and use computer vision techniques to monitor activity at each entry point.
- sohkamyung 11y agoTrue, if you are only interested in bees entering and leaving. But as the article says, they are also interested in learning what is inside and for that, vision techniques may not be as useful. Quote from the article: "Although we’ve only just begun distilling the data, we believe it should be possible to determine not just the volume of material added to each cell but also details about the types of material involved (mud, eggs, pollen, and so on)."
- Merad 11y agoMy CS department had quite a few bee hobbyists. A friend of mine did a MS thesis on tracking bees with computer vision... it's quite a bit more challenging than you might initially suspect. One professor was working on a capacitive system for tracking honeybees, but AFAIK has not had success with it.