ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology2015
Three-dimensional models of natural environments and the mapping of navigational information.
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- Bumblebee visual allometry results in locally improved resolution and globally improved sensitivity.eLife · 2019Article
- Rotation invariant visual processing for spatial memory in insects.Interface focus · 2018Article
- Optimal multiguidance integration in insect navigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Taking an insect-inspired approach to bird navigation.Learning & behavior · 2018Review
- The problem of home choice in skyline-based homing.PloS one · 2018Article
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- Subtle changes in the landmark panorama disrupt visual navigation in a nocturnal bull ant.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Quantifying navigational information: The catchment volumes of panoramic snapshots in outdoor scenes.PloS one · 2017Article
- Finding Home: Landmark Ambiguity in Human Navigation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Navigation performance in virtual environments varies with fractal dimension of landscape.Journal of environmental psychology · 2016Article
- Early ant trajectories: spatial behaviour before behaviourism.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2016Review
- Using an Insect Mushroom Body Circuit to Encode Route Memory in Complex Natural Environments.PLoS computational biology · 2016Article
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Abstract
Much evidence has accumulated in recent years, demonstrating that the degree to which navigating insects rely on path integration or landmark guidance when displaced depends on the navigational information content of their specific habitat. There is thus a need to quantify this information content. Here we present one way of achieving this by constructing 3D models of natural environments using a laser scanner and purely camera-based methods that allow us to render panoramic views at any location. We provide (1) ground-truthing of such reconstructed views against panoramic images recorded at the same locations; (2) evidence of their potential to map the navigational information content of natural habitats; (3) methods to register these models with GPS or with stereo camera recordings and (4) examples of their use in reconstructing the visual information available to walking and flying insects. We discuss the current limitations of 3D modelling, including the lack of spectral and polarisation information, but also the opportunities such models offer to map the navigational information content of natural habitats and to test visual navigation algorithms under 'real-life' conditions.
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