By monitoring bees from a rather far distance (10-20m) and calculating the historical trajectories, we can determine the health conditions and foraging preferences of bees and help improve pollination strategy. To achieve this, inflight behaviours and foraging patterns are detected by processing the video data with object tracking algorithms and classifiers. The video recording equipment is a 4k@60fps chromatic camera and a 2k@170Hz monochrome camera.
Contact: cong.sun@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Collaborators: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Manchester
Funders: N/A