Title (All Applicants)
Project Whirligig: Modeling the Swarming Behavior of Whirligig Beetles
Project Advisor(s) (Students Only)
Forrest Stonedahl
Presentation Type (All Applicants)
Poster Presentation
Disciplines (All Applicants)
Education
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
This project involved the automatic identification and extraction of whirligig beetle locations from video frames using a variety of computer vision and machine learning methods, and tracking the beetle locations over time. Preliminary work was also done on agent-based computer simulation that aims to replicate the beetles' swarming motions.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Haeme, Jared; McCaw, Kyle; Nguyen, Tan; and May, Tyler. "Project Whirligig: Modeling the Swarming Behavior of Whirligig Beetles" (2018). Celebration of Learning.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/celebrationoflearning/2018/posters/28
Project Whirligig: Modeling the Swarming Behavior of Whirligig Beetles
This project involved the automatic identification and extraction of whirligig beetle locations from video frames using a variety of computer vision and machine learning methods, and tracking the beetle locations over time. Preliminary work was also done on agent-based computer simulation that aims to replicate the beetles' swarming motions.
Comments
Summer of 2017 Research