FlockSeer: A portable stereo vision observer for bird flocking

IF 1.5 Q3 AUTOMATION & CONTROL SYSTEMS IET Cybersystems and Robotics Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI:10.1049/csy2.12118
Yuhui Ai, Haozhou Zhai, Zijie Sun, Weiming Yan, Tianjiang Hu
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Bird flocking is a paradigmatic case of self-organised collective behaviours in biology. Stereo camera systems are employed to observe flocks of starlings, jackdaws, and chimney swifts, mainly on a spot-fixed basis. A portable non-fixed stereo vision-based flocking observation system, namely FlockSeer, is developed by the authors for observing more species of bird flocks within field scenarios. The portable flocking observer, FlockSeer, responds to the challenges in extrinsic calibration, camera synchronisation and field movability compared to existing spot-fixed observing systems. A measurement and sensor fusion approach is utilised for rapid calibration, and a light-based synchronisation approach is used to simplify hardware configuration. FlockSeer has been implemented and tested across six cities in three provinces and has accomplished diverse flock-tracking tasks, accumulating behavioural data of four species, including egrets, with up to 300 resolvable trajectories. The authors reconstructed the trajectories of a flock of egrets under disturbed conditions to verify the practicality and reliability. In addition, we analysed the accuracy of identifying nearest neighbours, and then examined the similarity between the trajectories and the Couzin model. Experimental results demonstrate that the developed flocking observing system is highly portable, more convenient and swift to deploy in wetland-like or coast-like fields. Its observation process is reliable and practical and can effectively support the study of understanding and modelling of bird flocking behaviours.

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FlockSeer:用于鸟群的便携式立体视觉观测器
鸟群是生物界自组织集体行为的典型案例。立体摄像系统主要用于定点观测椋鸟、乌鸦和烟囱雨燕的鸟群。作者开发了一种基于立体视觉的便携式非固定鸟群观测系统,即 FlockSeer,用于在野外观测更多种类的鸟群。与现有的定点观测系统相比,便携式鸟群观测系统 FlockSeer 在外部校准、相机同步和野外移动性方面都面临挑战。测量和传感器融合方法可用于快速校准,基于光的同步方法可用于简化硬件配置。FlockSeer 已在三个省的六个城市实施和测试,并完成了各种鸟群跟踪任务,积累了包括白鹭在内的四个物种的行为数据,可解析的轨迹多达 300 条。作者在干扰条件下重建了一群白鹭的轨迹,以验证其实用性和可靠性。此外,我们还分析了识别近邻的准确性,然后检验了轨迹与 Couzin 模型之间的相似性。实验结果表明,所开发的鸟群观测系统具有很强的便携性,在类似湿地或海岸的野外部署更加方便快捷。其观测过程可靠实用,可有效支持鸟类成群行为的理解和建模研究。
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IET Cybersystems and Robotics
IET Cybersystems and Robotics Computer Science-Information Systems
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