Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony

  • Katarzyna Bozek,
  • Laetitia Hebert,
  • Yoann Portugal,
  • Greg J. Stephens

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21769-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Honey bee colonies are hard to automatically monitor due to the high number of visually similar members which move rapidly and whose numbers change over time. Here, the authors report a method for markerless tracking of a bee colony by adapting convolutional neural networks for detection and tracking.