Ben Koger

Ast. Prof. UWyo, ex. UWa, SAFS, MPI Animal Behavior-Couzin.

Machine learning for studying animal groups in the wild with images.

[Hemal🦉Naik હેમલ નાયક @hmnaik]

Introducing, BuckTales: The largest UAV dataset to solve the problem of identifying and tracking hundreds of animals from aerial images.
#NeurIPS2024 #AI #Wildlife
Presenting Poster in Session 1, #5310 West Wing. (Details in thread)
@MPI_animalbehav @livingingroups

[Michael Smith @SmithBeeLab]

But does this symmetry actually exist in a 3-dimensional nest? @prathibha897 and @ben_koger to the rescue!
We let colonies build 3D nests in empty boxes, and compared both sides of each comb - each one is only symmetrical with its backside (not within or across colonies).

[Michael Smith @SmithBeeLab]

Thrilled to see our new @SmithBeeLab paper out in @CurrentBiology!

Buckle up, this one’s a wild dive into the world of architectural symmetry…

https://t.co/UIVwFYBosE

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

@UW_SAFS @albert_kao @uwyocomputing, @uwzoophys, @UWyonews

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

Are you or someone you know looking for a postdoc? Consider joining my lab at University of Wyoming where we use imaging and computer vision to study animal behavior in complex natural ecosystems. Collective behavior, salmon, migration, machine learning! https://t.co/TYkCibj5zj

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

This work is in collaboration with the great Andrew Berdahl (@UW_SAFS) and @albert_kao

[Andrew Nosal @AndrewNosal]

Here, 180 leopard #sharks have been tracked using #computervision from #drone footage captured off #SanDiego (that's a harbor seal that spooks a few of the sharks). Next three tweets show tracking results. @PLNU @Scripps_Ocean #sharkscience #SharkWeek #Tech4Wildlife (1/4)

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

Awesome finale that @JTKerby's image made the @AnimalEcology cover in support of our method using drones to study animals in their natural social and physical landscapes! @adwait_d @jgraving @BlairRCostelloe @icouzin great team!

[Journal of Animal Ecology @AnimalEcology]

🔥JAE July Issue!

On the cover: Many animals behave in the context of dynamic social and physical landscapes. This is certainly the case in a band of gelada monkeys at the Guassa Community Conservation Area in Ethiopia.
📸by Jeff Kerby

Full issue 👉https://t.co/h6MmtGB42G

[MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @MPI_animalbehav]

@KasankaTrust @RolandKays @teague_o @BlairRCostelloe Shout out to the whole team @ben_koger @EdwardHurme and @BlairRCostelloe from @CBehav and @RolandKays @NCState and @teague_o @SoutheasternCS and Martin Wikelski @dechmannlab @animaltracking

And @KasankaTrust who protect and manage the bats at Kasanka National Park

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

I'm excited this is finally out!

[MPI-AB is on Bluesky @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @MPI_animalbehav]

Every year, straw-coloured fruit bats converge on a swampy forest in Zambia in what's thought to be the largest bat colony on the continent 🦇

But how do you count *this* many bats ⁉️

Enter #GoPros + #AI and work by @ben_koger @dechmannlab and team 1/2

https://t.co/8nJ7Fw39Et

[Roland Kays @RolandKays]

The paper about this work just came out as well - what a great team! @BlairRCostelloe @dechmannlab @animaltracking @ben_koger @teague_o
https://t.co/PIqlexO7Zq

[Roland Kays @RolandKays]

We used a bunch of @GoPro cameras and a fancy AI program by @ben_koger to count the bats @KasankaTrust and found it to be the largest (biomass) in the world. See how we did it and how these bats help protect the park in this new short video https://t.co/0439tAjD7H

[Peter Marting @AztecaCecropia]

I'm really proud of this work published today in Proc B with @SmithBeeLab & @ben_koger on the importance of the 3D nest structure and building strategies in developing honeybee colonies https://t.co/fAVEUUw83B

We observe, manipulate, and model 3D nest construction - see below.

[Hello Future @Orange_Future]

[#IA]🤖

Des chercheurs ont développé une méthode alliant drones et #IA, permettant d’étudier avec précision le comportement des animaux sauvages #computervision #machinelearning @ben_koger @MPI_animalbehav
👉https://t.co/4VcQHcevwt

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

@MPI_animalbehav @Hacksterio @BlairRCostelloe @jgraving @icouzin @CBehav @UniKonstanz Don't forget important coauthors @adwait_d and @JTKerby!

[Roland Kays @RolandKays]

Animal behavior in the Drone+AI era!

[Amanda Cheeseman @AECheeseman]

Hey #wildlife Twitter - what are you paying your undergraduate technicians?

Our school thinks $13 /hr is normal/fair & I’d like to know where we stand to bring more info to our chair.

Please RT and comment! Thanks!
@BillSeverud @SDSUFishEcology

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

@AnimalEcology @adwait_d @jgraving @BlairRCostelloe @icouzin For even more info checkout this thread :) https://t.co/XhmX3XlLUD

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

Out now in @AnimalEcology! A general approach for using drones to study animal behavior in the wild. Record the location and posture of many animals simultaneously at sub-second sub-meter resolution, plus reconstruct their 3D landscape: https://t.co/2u4jtEzha2

[Ben Koger @ben_koger]

@AnimalEcology @adwait_d @jgraving @BlairRCostelloe @icouzin The incredible gelada pictures are by our co-author @JTKerby !