Identifying All Individuals in a Honeybee Hive – Progress Towards Mapping All Social Interactions
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Here we present work in progress towards a fully automatic system that monitors a honeybee hive over many days, deriving information on the position and velocity of each bee, and detecting and identifying each instance of a social interaction. Each bee is tagged with a unique identifier, enabling the system to know exactly which individuals interacted in each case. The final result should be a map of all interactions, from which it is possible to derive, for example, a sociogram.
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