A computer vision approach to monitoring the activity and well-being of honeybees

Sanket Kachole; Gordon Hunter; Olga Duran

doi:10.3233/AISE200036

A computer vision approach to monitoring the activity and well-being of honeybees

Sanket Kachole, Gordon Hunter, Olga Duran

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Honeybees, in their role as pollinators, are vital to both agriculture and the wider ecosystem. However, they have experienced a serious decline across much of the world over recent years. Monitoring their well-being, and taking appropriate action if that is in jeopardy, has thus become a matter of great importance. In this paper, we present an approach based on computer vision to monitor bee activity and motion in the vicinity of an entrance/exit to a hive, including identifying and counting the number of bees approaching or leaving the hive in a given image frame or sequence of image frames.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/AISE200036
Publication status	Published - Jul 2020
Event	IE 2020 : 16th International Conference on Intelligent Environments - Online Duration: 20 Jul 2020 → 23 Jul 2020

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Conference	IE 2020 : 16th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Period	20/07/20 → 23/07/20

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Note: This work was supported by Kingston University.

Published in Iglesias, Carlos A., Novella, Jose Ignacio, Ricci, Alessandro, Pinto, Diego Rivera and Roman, Dumitru (eds.) (2020) Intelligent environments 2020. Amsterdam : IOS Press BV. Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, 28, pp. 152-161. ISBN: 9781643680903.

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