https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/605945
標題: | Automated monitoring and analyses of honey bee pollen foraging behavior using a deep learning-based imaging system | 作者: | Ngo T.N Rustia D.J.A Yang E.-C TA-TE LIN |
關鍵字: | Embedded system;Environmental monitoring;Image processing;Object recognition;Object tracking;Behavioral research;Deep learning;Embedded systems;Food products;Imaging systems;Object detection;Rain;Wind;Automated analysis;Automated monitoring;Embedded-system;Environmental Monitoring;Foraging behaviours;Foraging trips;Honey bee;Images processing;Object Tracking;Objects recognition;automation;classification;environmental conditions;error analysis;foraging behavior;foraging efficiency;honeybee;image processing;monitoring system;pollen;precision;tracking;wind velocity;Apis mellifera | 公開日期: | 2021 | 卷: | 187 | 來源出版物: | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 摘要: | Pollen foraging efficiency provides vital information for the behavioral research on honey bees. The pollen production of beehives can be measured by manually weighing the pollen collected from pollen traps. For long-term pollen foraging monitoring, this approach is both inefficient and laborious. This study presents an efficient method for automatically monitoring the pollen foraging behavior and environmental conditions through an embedded imaging system. The imaging system uses an off-the-shelf camera installed at the beehive entrance to acquire video streams that are processed using the developed image processing algorithm. A lightweight real-time object detection and deep learning-based classification model, supported by an object tracking algorithm, was trained for counting and recognizing honey bee into pollen or non-pollen bearing class. The F1-score was 0.94 for pollen and non-pollen bearing honey bee recognition, and the precision and recall values were 0.91 and 0.99, respectively. For foraging trip counting algorithm, the mean average percent errors of the pollen bearing honey bee count and the total incoming honey bee count were 8.45 ± 2.72% and 10.55 ± 2.10%, respectively. An experiment was performed to test the performance of the imaging system in continuous monitoring of honey bee pollen foraging behavior as well as to investigate the effect caused by weather factors. The incoming and outgoing honey bee count were recorded and used to calculate indices based on the hourly and daily recorded counts for further analyses. The experimental results and analyses revealed that the daily pollen foraging trip ratio was 24.5 ± 3.5%; a single beehive collected about 49.1 ± 11.0 g of pollen per day. The pollen foraging trip count increased with increasing temperature and light intensity, and decreased with increasing relative humidity, rain level and wind speed. A significant reduction of pollen foraging activities was observed in heavy rainfall or gentle breeze conditions. This study not only quantitatively presents the effect of environmental factors on pollen foraging behavior, but also demonstrates the efficacy of the proposed imaging system. The automated imaging system can be applied as an efficient and reliable tool for researchers to gain deeper insights into honey bee foraging behavior, and help beekeepers achieve beehive management. ? 2021 Elsevier B.V. |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85108697224&doi=10.1016%2fj.compag.2021.106239&partnerID=40&md5=c3d3d3652e511328bed6012ed5899ca6 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/605945 |
ISSN: | 01681699 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.compag.2021.106239 |
顯示於: | 生物機電工程學系 |
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