Title
Robust Tracking And Behavioral Modeling Of Movements Of Biological Collectives From Ordinary Video Recordings
Abstract
We propose a novel computational method to extract information about interactions among individuals with different behavioral states in a biological collective from ordinary video recordings. Assuming that individuals are acting as finite state machines, our method first detects discrete behavioral states of those individuals and then constructs a model of their state transitions, taking into account the positions and states of other individuals in the vicinity. We have tested the proposed method through applications to two real-world biological collectives: termites in an experimental setting and human pedestrians in a university campus. For each application, a robust tracking system was developed in-house, utilizing interactive human intervention (for termite tracking) or online agent-based simulation (for pedestrian tracking). In both cases, significant interactions were detected between nearby individuals with different states, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/SSCI.2017.8285238
2017 IEEE SYMPOSIUM SERIES ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE (SSCI)
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1707.07310
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroki Sayama131949.14
Farnaz Zamani Esfahlani211.30
Ali Jazayeri301.69
J. Scott Turner4252.88