Jacob M. Graving

TL;DR: A new easy-to-use software toolkit, DeepPoseKit, is introduced that addresses animal pose estimation problems using an efficient multi-scale deep-learning model, called Stacked DenseNet, and a fast GPU-based peak-detection algorithm for estimating keypoint locations with subpixel precision.

TL;DR: Bio-mimetic fish-like robots are developed which allow us to measure directly the energy consumption associated with swimming together in pairs and find that followers, in any relative position to a near-neighbour, could obtain hydrodynamic benefits if they exhibit a tailbeat phase difference that varies linearly with front-back distance.

TL;DR: The most important desafio importante que la automatización puede superar es the observación of muchos individuos a la vez, lo que permite el seguimiento de todo el grupo o de toda la población.

TL;DR: It is found that VAE-SNE produces high-quality compressed representations with results that are on par with existing nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms, and can be used for unsupervised action recognition to detect and classify repeated motifs of stereotyped behavior in high-dimensional timeseries data.

TL;DR: Some recent discoveries related to navigation by amblypygids, nocturnal arachnids that inhabit the tropics and sub-tropics that possess navigational abilities that are reminiscent of true-navigating vertebrates are discussed.