Honey Bee Dance Modeling in Real-time using Machine Learning
This addresses a labor-intensive task for biologists studying bee communication, though it appears incremental as it automates an existing manual method.
The paper tackles the problem of manually labeling honeybee waggle dances by proposing an automated process to monitor and segment dance components, achieving high accuracy and real-time performance.
The waggle dance that honeybees perform is an astonishing way of communicating the location of food source. After over 60 years of its discovery, researchers still use manual labeling by watching hours of dance videos to detect different transitions between dance components thus extracting information regarding the distance and direction to the food source. We propose an automated process to monitor and segment different components of honeybee waggle dance. The process is highly accurate, runs in real-time, and can use shared information between multiple dances.