Using AI in collective animal behavior without (too many) tears
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Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência Rua da Quinta Grande, 6 2780-156 Oeiras Ionians AuditoriumRua da Quinta Grande, 6
2780-156, Oeiras
Several seminars are held weekly at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, an initiative that aims to bring together all researchers around the topics under discussion.
The sessions, with internal researchers or guests, contribute to stimulate the open and extremely collaborative culture of the IGC.
You can read the abstract of this seminar to learn more about it.
I would like to convey the opportunities that AI offers to study animal behavior. I will spend a few minutes giving an intuition of how AI works and then explain how we have used it in the lab to study collective animal behavior. One clear opportunity AI offers is to extract richer information from our experiments, that I will illustrate mainly with a tracking system. Less obvious is perhaps how to use AI to understand animal behavior. I will show how we used it to find a model of collective behavior that is both accurate and transparent. I believe the AI modelling is quite close to what a biologist expects from a model: a quantitative description that does not oversimplify too much the underlying Biology.
SPEAKER
Gonzalo Polavieja
Champalimaud Foundation, Portugal