Jolyon Troscianko
@jtroscianko.bsky.social
Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
This grass moth is often invisible in still frames, but easy to see in motion. BehaveAI can use this motion to track tiny & camouflaged moving objects in complex scenes. Its semi-automated annotation workflow also means this moth-tracker took only an hour to make.
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This grass moth is often invisible in still frames, but easy to see in motion. BehaveAI can use this motion to track tiny & camouflaged moving objects in complex scenes. Its semi-automated annotation workflow also means this moth-tracker took only an hour to make.
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
BehaveAI can tell you who is doing what in each video frame. This example classifies behaviour from movement and sex from static appearance such as wing markings.
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Git: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIgithub
Video: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIintro
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Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Git: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIgithub
Video: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIintro
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November 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
BehaveAI can tell you who is doing what in each video frame. This example classifies behaviour from movement and sex from static appearance such as wing markings.
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Git: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIgithub
Video: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIintro
@uniexecec.bsky.social
Preprint: tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Git: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIgithub
Video: tinyurl.com/BehaveAIintro
@uniexecec.bsky.social
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
November 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
BehaveAI is live!
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Our biologically inspired video analysis tool sees motion as colour. Track animals or objects, classify their behaviour, and handle complex natural scenes with ease.
Semi-supervised annotation, no GPUs required, user-friendly, free & open source.
Pre-print tinyurl.com/BehaveAI
Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Winter ASAB @asab.org on *Sensory Ecology* register and submit your abstracts now (abstract deadline just a month away)!
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
I'm organising the conference this year with @lauraakelley.bsky.social and Innes Cuthill
Register & get more info here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/
Just a few days left to sign up for our light pollution & insect declines workshop - FREE registration & meals - deadline for registration March 21st, and deadline for expert scan suggestions 22nd.
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
March 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Just a few days left to sign up for our light pollution & insect declines workshop - FREE registration & meals - deadline for registration March 21st, and deadline for expert scan suggestions 22nd.
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
We are delighted to host an RCN symposium on light pollution as a driver of insect declines. May 12th-14th, Penryn. We will draw on academics, industry, planners & NGOs to explore issues & seek solutions. Free registration, but limited places!
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
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www.visual-ecology.com/events/
@uniexecec.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 10:10 AM
We are delighted to host an RCN symposium on light pollution as a driver of insect declines. May 12th-14th, Penryn. We will draw on academics, industry, planners & NGOs to explore issues & seek solutions. Free registration, but limited places!
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
@uniexecec.bsky.social
www.visual-ecology.com/events/
@uniexecec.bsky.social
New paper out showing how pulses of blue-white lights (such as those in modern car headlights) cause more harmful responses in moths compared to warmer coloured light pulses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @exetercec.bsky.social
November 13, 2024 at 12:03 PM
New paper out showing how pulses of blue-white lights (such as those in modern car headlights) cause more harmful responses in moths compared to warmer coloured light pulses. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @exetercec.bsky.social
Play our new find-the-harvester game! By playing you'll be helping us to understand the weird and wonderful diversity in harvester colouration visual-ecology.com/harvesters/ @exetercec.bsky.social
September 2, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Play our new find-the-harvester game! By playing you'll be helping us to understand the weird and wonderful diversity in harvester colouration visual-ecology.com/harvesters/ @exetercec.bsky.social
Exciting new gadget - a hyperspectral camera/imager that you can build for ~£350. It can measure radiance or reflectance, ~320-880nm, 9nm FWHM, customisable spatial resolution, enormous dynamic range, and a simple GUI for desktop or android.
doi.org/10.1101/2024... @exetercec.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2024... @exetercec.bsky.social
June 27, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Exciting new gadget - a hyperspectral camera/imager that you can build for ~£350. It can measure radiance or reflectance, ~320-880nm, 9nm FWHM, customisable spatial resolution, enormous dynamic range, and a simple GUI for desktop or android.
doi.org/10.1101/2024... @exetercec.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2024... @exetercec.bsky.social
We're hosting a visual ecology symposium - 2nd of July - Free entry
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3b4bd647
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3b4bd647
May 24, 2024 at 6:51 AM
We're hosting a visual ecology symposium - 2nd of July - Free entry
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3b4bd647
Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3b4bd647