Prediction of honeybee swarms using audio signals and convolutional neural networks

Stenford Ruvinga; Gordon Hunter; Jean-Christophe Nebel; Olga Duran

doi:10.3233/AISE220032

Prediction of honeybee swarms using audio signals and convolutional neural networks

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Honeybees are of vital importance to both agriculture and ecology. Unfortunately, their populations have been in serious decline over recent years. Swarms from hives are both of great importance to wider success of a colony and of major significance to beekeepers. In this paper, we contribute to the challenge of predicting when a swarm is going to occur. We have employed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) approach applied to audio data recorded from hives. Our initial results are extremely encouraging, since they allow us to distinguish hives which are preparing to swarm from those which are not with high levels of accuracy.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3233/AISE220032
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022
Event	Workshop on Edge AI for Smart Agriculture (EAISA 2022) - Biarritz, France Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 23 Jun 2022

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Workshop	Workshop on Edge AI for Smart Agriculture (EAISA 2022)
Period	20/06/22 → 23/06/22

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Note: Published in: Alvarez Valera, Humberto Hernan and Luštrek, Mitja (eds.) (2022) Workshops at 18th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE2022). Amsterdam, Netherlands : IOS Press BV. pp.146-154. (Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, volume 31) ISSN (print) 1875-4163 ISSN (online) 1875-4171 ISBN (print) 9781643682860 ISBN (online) 9781643682877.

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Prediction of honeybee swarms using audio signals and convolutional neural networks

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