Intrinsic behavioural parameters of autonomous objects based on motion

Kirill LONHUS

Doctoral thesis

Investigating intrinsic behavioural parameters of autonomous object based on motion

Abstract:

This thesis outlines quantitative behaviour analysis methods. In laboratory conditions, the video tracking-based methods are the best, and thus they are investigated in depth. Methods of image acquisition, physical camera calibration, and spectral image reconstruction are intensively discussed in the author's articles, which are included in the thesis. Software solution for individualized object tracking was developed and applied to aquarium fish. Causality networks were introduced, investigated, and applied to multiple agent data of swimming fish. The networks highlighted school hierarchy, allowed to mine individual parameters of agents, and achieve the primary goal of the thesis -- how individual behaviour manifests itself in collective behaviour.

Abstract:

This thesis outlines quantitative behaviour analysis methods. In laboratory conditions, the video tracking-based methods are the best, and thus they are investigated in depth. Methods of image acquisition, physical camera calibration, and spectral image reconstruction are intensively discussed in the author's articles, which are included in the thesis. Software solution for individualized object tracking was developed and applied to aquarium fish. Causality networks were introduced, investigated, and applied to multiple agent data of swimming fish. The networks highlighted school hierarchy, allowed to mine individual parameters of agents, and achieve the primary goal of the thesis -- how individual behaviour manifests itself in collective behaviour.

Keywords

collective behaviour, causality, school hierarchy, quantitative behaviour, network analysis

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 16. 12. 2021

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedúci: prof. RNDr. Dalibor Štys, CSc.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA IN ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE

Faculty of Science

Doctoral programme / odbor:
Biophysics / Biophysics