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View article: A low-cost immersive Virtual Reality system to study social interactions and collective behavior in fish
A low-cost immersive Virtual Reality system to study social interactions and collective behavior in fish Open
This study introduces a low-cost, open source, immersive Virtual Reality (VR) system designed to investigate real-time social interactions and collective behaviors in fish. Understanding collective animal behaviors, such as schooling in fi…
View article: Reinforcement learning as a robotics-inspired framework for insect navigation: from spatial representations to neural implementation
Reinforcement learning as a robotics-inspired framework for insect navigation: from spatial representations to neural implementation Open
Bees are among the master navigators of the insect world. Despite impressive advances in robot navigation research, the performance of these insects is still unrivaled by any artificial system in terms of training efficiency and generaliza…
View article: Reinforcement Learning as a Robotics-Inspired Framework for Insect Navigation: From Spatial Representations to Neural Implementation
Reinforcement Learning as a Robotics-Inspired Framework for Insect Navigation: From Spatial Representations to Neural Implementation Open
Bees are among the master navigators of the insect world. Despite impressive advances in robot navigation research, the performance of these insects is still unrivaled by any artificial system in terms of training efficiency and generaliza…
View article: Monitoring fast‐moving animals—Building a customized camera system and evaluation toolset
Monitoring fast‐moving animals—Building a customized camera system and evaluation toolset Open
Automated cameras (including camera traps) are an established observation tool, allowing, for example the identification of behaviours and monitoring without harming organisms. However, limitations including imperfect detection, insufficie…
View article: Contradictory behavioral effects of neuronal perturbations on behavioral responses to linearly polarized light in freely walking<i>Drosophila</i>
Contradictory behavioral effects of neuronal perturbations on behavioral responses to linearly polarized light in freely walking<i>Drosophila</i> Open
Many insects can use the polarization of the skylight as a navigational cue. As shown previously, freely walking Drosophila orient along the e-vector of linearly polarized UV light presented both dorsally and ventrally. We are interested i…
View article: High Resolution Outdoor Videography of Insects Using Fast Lock-On Tracking
High Resolution Outdoor Videography of Insects Using Fast Lock-On Tracking Open
Insects have significant global impacts on ecology, economy, and health and yet our understanding of their behavior remains limited. Bees, for example, use vision and a tiny brain to find flowers and return home, but understanding how they…
View article: Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in <i>Drosophila</i>
Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in <i>Drosophila</i> Open
Like many other animals, insects are capable of returning to previously visited locations using path integration, which is a memory of travelled direction and distance. Recent studies suggest that Drosophila can also use path integration t…
View article: Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Moving Mosquitoes
Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Moving Mosquitoes Open
Tracking mosquitoes in real time, as opposed to recording video files and performing the tracking step later, is useful for two reasons. The first is efficiency. Real-time tracking requires less storage because video images do not need to …
View article: Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in <i>Drosophila</i>
Displacement experiments provide evidence for path integration in <i>Drosophila</i> Open
Like many other animals, insects are capable of returning to previously visited locations using path integration. Recently, Drosophila has been added to the list of insects thought capable of this navigational memory. Existing experimental…
View article: A Rapid, Highly Sensitive and Open-Access SARS-CoV-2 Detection Assay for Laboratory and Home Testing
A Rapid, Highly Sensitive and Open-Access SARS-CoV-2 Detection Assay for Laboratory and Home Testing Open
RT-qPCR-based diagnostic tests play important roles in combating virus-caused pandemics such as Covid-19. However, their dependence on sophisticated equipment and the associated costs often limits their widespread use. Loop-mediated isothe…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.5.0b1
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.5.0b1 Open
First beta release for v3.5.0
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.3
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.3 Open
This is the third bugfix release of the 3.4.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: Clarify deprecation of Axes.figbox Disable MultiCursor widget on Axes subplots which it is not tracking Don't simplify path in LineColl…
View article: The olfactory gating of visual preferences to human skin and colors in mosquitoes
The olfactory gating of visual preferences to human skin and colors in mosquitoes Open
Mosquitoes track odors, locate hosts, and find mates visually. The color of a food resource, such as a flower or warm-blooded host, can be dominated by long wavelengths of the visible light spectrum (green to red for humans) and is likely …
View article: Review of Methods for Animal Videography Using Camera Systems that Automatically Move to Follow the Animal
Review of Methods for Animal Videography Using Camera Systems that Automatically Move to Follow the Animal Open
Synopsis Digital photography and videography provide rich data for the study of animal behavior and are consequently widely used techniques. For fixed, unmoving cameras there is a resolution versus field-of-view tradeoff and motion blur sm…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.2
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.2 Open
This is the second bugfix release of the 3.4.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: Generate wheels usable on older PyPy7.3.{0,1} Fix compatibility with Python 3.10 Add subplot_mosaic Axes in the order the user gave th…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.0rc1
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.4.0rc1 Open
This is the first release candidate for Matplotlib 3.4.0.
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.4
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.4 Open
This is the fourth bugfix release of the 3.3.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: Fix WebAgg initialization. Fix parsing QT_API setting with mixed case. Fix build with link-time optimization disabled in environment. …
View article: Decision letter: Spherical arena reveals optokinetic response tuning to stimulus location, size, and frequency across entire visual field of larval zebrafish
Decision letter: Spherical arena reveals optokinetic response tuning to stimulus location, size, and frequency across entire visual field of larval zebrafish Open
Article Figures and data Abstract Introduction Results Discussion Materials and methods Data availability References Decision letter Author response Article and author information Metrics Abstract Many animals have large visual fields, and…
View article: Dynamic real-time subtraction of stray-light and background for multiphoton imaging
Dynamic real-time subtraction of stray-light and background for multiphoton imaging Open
We introduce a new approach to reduce uncorrelated background signals from fluorescence imaging data, using real-time subtraction of background light. This approach takes advantage of the short fluorescence lifetime of most popular fluores…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.3
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.3 Open
This is the third bugfix release of the 3.3.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: Fix calls to Axis.grid with argument visible=True. Fix fully masked imshow. Fix inconsistent color mapping in scatter for 3D plots. Fix…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.2
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.2 Open
This is the second bugfix release of the 3.3.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: fix Axis scale on twinned Axes fix auto-close of Figures in nbagg fix automatic title placement if Axes is off the Figure fix autorang…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.1
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.1 Open
This is the first bugfix release of the 3.3.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: fix docstring import issues when running Python with optimization fix hist with categorical data, such as with Pandas fix install on BS…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.0
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.3.0 Open
Highlights of this release include: Provisional API for composing semantic axes layouts from text or nested lists New Axes.sharex, Axes.sharey methods Turbo colormap colors.BoundaryNorm supports extend keyword argument Text color for legen…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.2.2
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.2.2 Open
This is the second bugfix release of the 3.2.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: support fractional HiDPI scaling with Qt backends support new Python and fix syntax errors in legacy Python support new Qt 5 and fix s…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.2.1
matplotlib/matplotlib: REL: v3.2.1 Open
This is the first bugfix release of the 3.2.x series. This release contains several critical bug-fixes: fix Quiver.set_UVC calls with scalar inputs fix bezier.get_parallels failure from floating point rounding errors fix markers specified …
View article: Millisecond insect tracking system
Millisecond insect tracking system Open
Animals such as insects have provided a rich source of inspiration for designing robots. For example, animals navigate to goals via efficient coordination of individual motor actions, and demonstrate natural solutions to problems also face…
View article: matplotlib/matplotlib v3.1.3
matplotlib/matplotlib v3.1.3 Open
matplotlib: plotting with Python