Copyright: Prasetia Putra
Quantifying joint action and culture across species using cutting-edge motion capture and gaze tracking technologies
What are the dynamics of social interaction in humans and animals? The project Quantifying joint action and culture across species using cutting-edge motion capture and gaze-tracking technologies aims to understand these specific dynamics. The research team led by Fumihiro Kano is therefore using cutting-edge tracking technologies, including motion capture, gaze-tracking, and computer vision techniques.
“More specifically, our goal is firstly to establish techniques to track postures and eye/head directions across species. And secondly, we want to identify key interactive components among individuals, as well as key cognitive and emotional traits of individuals, that lead to successful synchronization and joint action of a collective,” Fumihiro Kano explains.
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Two participants wearing motion capture suits. Copyright: Prasetia Putra -
The motion capture and eye tracking result image of two people playing table tennis. Copyright: Prasetia Putra -
The motion capture and eye tracking result image of two people playing table tennis. Copyright: Prasetia Putra -
Pigeons with motion capture markers. Copyright: Mathilde Delacoux -
Three monkeys sitting on a tree stump. Copyright Sota Inoue -
A drone flying over a beach. Copyright: Sota Inoue -
Monkey movement marker data. Copyright: Varun Kummer
The team works with multiple species, including birds (pigeons and crows), primates (great apes and monkeys), and human adults. They target various types of collective behaviour, including team cooperation in humans, vigilance in pigeons, and collective foraging in all animals.
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Publications
- Kano, F., Naik, H., Keskin, G. et al. Head-tracking of freely-behaving pigeons in a motion-capture system reveals the selective use of visual field regions. Sci Rep 12, 19113 (2022).
- Waldmann, U., Naik, H., Máté, N., Kano, F., Couzin, I., Deussen, O. and Goldlücke, B. 2022. I-MuPPET: Interactive Multi-Pigeon Pose Estimation and Tracking. In Pattern Recognition: 44th DAGM German Conference, DAGM GCPR 2022, Konstanz
- Kano, F., Kawaguchi, Y., & Hanling, Y. (2022). Experimental evidence that uniformly white sclera enhances the visibility of eye-gaze direction in humans and chimpanzees. eLife 2022;11:e74086.