Automated image-based tracking and its application in ecology
Abstract
The behavior of individuals determines the strength and outcome of ecological interactions, which drive population, community, and ecosystem organization. Bio-logging, such as telemetry and animal-borne imaging, provides essential individual viewpoints, tracks, and life histories, but requires capture of individuals and is often impractical to scale. Recent developments in automated image-based tracking offers opportunities to remotely quantify and understand individual behavior at scales and resolutions not previously possible, providing an essential supplement to other tracking methodologies in ecology. Automated image-based tracking should continue to advance the field of ecology by enabling better understanding of the linkages between individual and higher-level ecological processes, via high-throughput quantitative analysis of complex ecological patterns and processes across scales, including analysis of environmental drivers.
Additional Information
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Available online 5 June 2014. In Press, Corrected Proof — Note to users. We thank Paul Craze, Lena Rohde, Andrew Spink, and one anonymous reviewer for their comments that improved our review, and especially Alex Gomez-Marin whose insightful and detailed comments significantly enhanced the clarity and quality of our review. We thank Michael Dickinson (Figure IB in Box 2), Nickolay Hristov, Louise Allen, and Thomas Kunz (Figure IC in Box 2), Scott Johnson (Figure ID in Box 2), Nils Handegard and Simon Leblanc (Figure IE in Box 2), Brian Hicks (Figure IF in Box 2), and Steve Feller (Figure IG in Box 2) for their images, and those people who kindly contributed information and movies for the supplementary data (names provided at the beginning of each movie). Figure ID,E,I in Box 4 and Movie S14 modified from [8] with permission from Nature Publishing Group. Figure IG in Box 4 and raw sonar clip in Movie S9 reprinted from [4] with permission from Elsevier. Figure 1 (middle panel) and Figure IM in Box 3 modified from [18]. Figure IE–I,L,N in Box 3 and Figure ID–F in Box 4 modified from [27] with permission from Nature Publishing Group. Figure IJ in Box 3, Figure II in Box 4, and Movie S11 reprinted from [28] with permission from Nature Publishing Group. Movie S16 reprinted from [31] with permission from Elsevier. Movie S18 reprinted from [70]. Movie S22 reprinted from [29]. Disclaimer statement L.P.J.J. Noldus is Director of Noldus Information Technology BV, developer of one of the commercial tracking systems described in this paper (Table S1 in the supplementary material online).Attached Files
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