Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Deep learning-assisted comparative analysis of animal trajectories with DeepHL

  • Takuya Maekawa,
  • Kazuya Ohara,
  • Yizhe Zhang,
  • Matasaburo Fukutomi,
  • Sakiko Matsumoto,
  • Kentarou Matsumura,
  • Hisashi Shidara,
  • Shuhei J. Yamazaki,
  • Ryusuke Fujisawa,
  • Kaoru Ide,
  • Naohisa Nagaya,
  • Koji Yamazaki,
  • Shinsuke Koike,
  • Takahisa Miyatake,
  • Koutarou D. Kimura,
  • Hiroto Ogawa,
  • Susumu Takahashi,
  • Ken Yoda

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19105-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Comparative analysis of animal behaviour using locomotion data such as GPS data is difficult because the large amount of data makes it difficult to contrast group differences. Here the authors apply deep learning to detect and highlight trajectories characteristic of a group across scales of millimetres to hundreds of kilometres.