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What does the world look like through the eyes of a bee? New tech reveals how animals see colours Unlike humans, the eye structure of animals like honeybees and hummingbirds means they can see ultraviolet light. Ever wanted to know how animals see the world? That might soon be possible as new tech provides insight into the way they perceive colours. Different animals perceive the world differently because of how their eyes work. Humans have three types of colour-sensing cells called cone cells in our retinas allowing us to see red, green and blue wavelengths of light. Mixtures of these three colours make up the rainbow of hues we see every day. Unlike humans, the eye structure of animals like honeybees and hummingbirds means they can see ultraviolet (UV) light. It helps them to find nectar and opens up a wide spectrum of colours we can’t even imagine: https://lnkd.in/e6kF_UQm #honeybees #science #nature #insects #wildlife

🐾 3D Fauna, by Stanford University, The University of Texas at Austin, and University of Oxford, is an approach to learning a pan-category deformable 3D animal model of more than 100 different animal species learned from 2D internet images. With its Semantic Bank of Skinned Models (SBSM), 3D Fauna introduces a compact and efficient way to capture the essence of diverse animal shapes, facilitating the animation and rendering of these creatures for educational, entertainment, and scientific purposes. By leveraging self-supervised feature extractors and large-scale datasets, it achieves a level of scalability and quality previously unattainable in 3D animal modeling. 🔗 Discover their Project Page: https://lnkd.in/e8QBdgPn 📚 Dive into their research: https://lnkd.in/e92jttpa 🤗 Demo: https://lnkd.in/e9B_cfJD For more cutting-edge AI and 3D modeling insights ⤵ 👉 Follow Orbis Tabula #3DModeling #imageto3d #AnimalBiodiversity

Tracking humans? ❌ Tracking objects? ❌ Tracking horses in 4D? ✅ Checkout "Dessie: Disentanglement for Articulated 3D Horse Shape and Pose Estimation from Images" from Kungliga Tekniska högskolan , Scania Group, SLU - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and CNR-IMATI to be presented at #ACCV2024 3D parametric animal models have been developed to aid in estimating 3D shape and pose from images and video. While progress has been made for humans, it's more challenging for animals due to limited annotated data. They introduce the first method using synthetic data generation and disentanglement to learn to regress 3D shape and pose. Focusing on horses, they use text-based texture generation and a synthetic data pipeline to create varied shapes, poses, and appearances, learning disentangled spaces. Their method, Dessie, surpasses existing 3D horse reconstruction methods and generalizes to other large animals like zebras, cows, and deer. Links in comments! #deeplearning #4Dreconstruction #tracking #computervision #training #machinelearning #futurism #agriculture #horses #ACCV

Hi folks, just a quick discussion about how multispectral imagery is affected by weeds. Weeds are a fact of life but they do affect aerial multispectral imaging of trials because the multispectral cameras cannot distinguish between weeds and crop, as they take average reflectivity values from a designated trial area. There are some options for adjusting for weeds post processing but it takes extra time. #digitalagriculture #multispectralimaging #droneimaging #micasense #cropresearch

While searching for a way to work with random points and growing populations, this idea appeared accidentally. I wasn't trying to mimic the behavior of Karyokinesis of biological cells (in fact I'm in serious doubt about biomimicry in general). The trick is to use a timer + data recorder + a knob for the arbitrary user input. It starts to breed when you start the timer, but to change the evolution speed, just roll the knob! Of course, the knob is as precise as in other input types, but somehow it looks fuzzier to me. Combined with a time-based change, it becomes even crazier! This looks like an example of real-time animation in Grasshopper, without the need for Kangaroo. You can see more at https://lnkd.in/gH5MGtvC #curves #grasshopper #timer #cellular #voronoi #digitaldesign #parametricdesign

AI-Film in progress: - img: #midjourney - vid: #LumaDreamMachine #luma prompts: 1. Arc shot of a man/woman is watching in to the window/reading a newspaper - 5 sec 2. (Extend) Spin transition to the greenhouse - next 5 sec

Insight into how other animals see the world... Scientists Edge Us Closer to Seeing What Other Animals See https://buff.ly/3WCkja9 We may never understand the umwelt, or subjective perspective, of any other living thing, but science can give us at least some idea. ... For instance, scientists can get an idea of an animal’s sight experience based on the anatomy of the eye ... Cats, for example, have six to eight times more rod cells than we do, so they can see way better in the dark than we can. That said, we have ten times as many cone cells as cats, meaning we can see better in lighter conditions. ... Their camera method is so impressive that the researchers write in the study that “it provides scientists and filmmakers with a new, empirically grounded approach for depicting the perceptual worlds of nonhuman animals.” .... But Vasas and her team’s novel camera and software is less expensive than current methods — and the cameras provide better image quality than those to create still images. #vision #eye #animals #see #worldview #perspective #infrared #ultraviolet #research .

Scan Quest Special for National Insect Week (24th - 30th June) In this month's Scan Quest, we celebrate National Insect Week to raise awareness of the diverse and essential roles insects play in ecosystems. OR3D, showcases a detailed #CTscan of a fly, using our Easy Tom 230 from RX Solutions - NDT. This process involved taking multiple X-ray images, reconstructing a #3Dmodel, and analysing the detailed structures and segmentation of the fly in Volume Graphics, part of Hexagon Graphics Studio Max. Highlights of the CT Scan Exoskeleton: Contains intricate patterns and robust structures. Eyes: Visualises the complex geometry of the fly's eye. Analysis and Segmentation Once the 3D model is created, it can be analysed in detail. Segmentation involves identifying and isolating different parts of the fly, such as the wings, legs, and internal organs. This process allows for further detailed analysis of these structures. Benefits of CT Scanning Provides detailed visualisation. Useful for educational purposes and various research fields. Although its pretty frightful to look at, this demonstration highlights the advanced capabilities of #CTscanning in revealing the complex anatomy of insects, fostering greater appreciation and understanding of these vital creatures during National Insect Week. Fun facts - flies can see behind them and they taste with their feet. #insectsweek24 #insectsweek #scanquest #CT #3Dmodel National Geographic Impossible Creations Ltd Greenspace Information for Greater London CIC Royal Entomological Society Contego Environmental Services Ltd

#Matlab #ImageprocessinginMatlab #BasicsofMatlab Practice No.1: Converting The images into different planes Gray plane, inverted image , Red plane, Green plane, Blue plane, Combined RGB and also Brighten the image. Here I also combined My resulted images using montage ({ });

One of the great challenges common to filmmaking and scientific research is documenting the lives of animals whilst minimizing any influence on their behaviour and environment. This is vitally important at the macro or microscopic level, where a misplaced tripod leg could crush or disturb subjects and destroy their habitat. Many invertebrates also react negatively to a looming shadow or loud noises/vibrations. That's why I built this 4-axis motion control system, which floats a microscope and camera silently along a track by remote control and allows me to step back and film shy wildlife from a distance, watching the footage over wireless feed. Here's the system booting up, silent amongst morning birdsong. The camera (not shown here) is mounted vertically and looks out sideways beneath via a special 'probe' lens I designed: a combination of prisms, microscope optics and irises which delivers drone-style shots with an ant's perspective of the world under our feet ... and unlocks an unobtrusive window into the incredible lives and ingenious cognitive behaviours of invertebrates in the wild.