Visual navigation: properties, acquisition and use of views

J Zeil - Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 2023 - Springer
Panoramic views offer information on heading direction and on location to visually
navigating animals. This review covers the properties of panoramic views and the …

Comparative biology of spatial navigation in three arachnid orders (Amblypygi, Araneae, and Scorpiones)

J Ortega-Escobar, EA Hebets, VP Bingman… - Journal of Comparative …, 2023 - Springer
From both comparative biology and translational research perspectives, there is escalating
interest in understanding how animals navigate their environments. Considerable work is …

Evidence of learning walks related to scorpion home burrow navigation

DD Gaffin, MG Muñoz… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
The navigation by chemo-textural familiarity hypothesis (NCFH) suggests that scorpions use
their midventral pectines to gather chemical and textural information near their burrows and …

Landmarks, beacons, or panoramic views: What do pigeons attend to for guidance in familiar environments?

S Schwarz, A Wystrach, K Cheng, DM Kelly - Learning & Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Birds and social insects represent excellent systems for understanding visually guided
navigation. Both animal groups use surrounding visual cues for homing and foraging. Ants …

Exploring the chemo-textural familiarity hypothesis for scorpion navigation

DD Gaffin, BP Brayfield - The Journal of Arachnology, 2017 - BioOne
The navigation by scene familiarity hypothesis provides broad explanatory power for how
bees and ants navigate from the hive to distant food sources and back. The premise is that …

Indoor space recognition using deep convolutional neural network: a case study at MIT campus

F Zhang, F Duarte, R Ma, D Milioris, H Lin… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we propose a robust and parsimonious approach using Deep Convolutional
Neural Network (DCNN) to recognize and interpret interior space. DCNN has achieved …

Quantifying navigational information: the catchment volumes of panoramic snapshots in outdoor scenes

T Murray, J Zeil - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Panoramic views of natural environments provide visually navigating animals with two kinds
of information: they define locations because image differences increase smoothly with …

Looking down: a model for visual route following in flying insects

J Stankiewicz, B Webb - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Insect visual navigation is often assumed to depend on panoramic views of the horizon, and
how these change as the animal moves. However, it is known that honey bees can visually …

High-throughput simulations indicate feasibility of navigation by familiarity with a local sensor such as scorpion pectines

A Musaelian, DD Gaffin - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Scorpions have arguably the most elaborate “tongues” on the planet: two paired ventral
combs, called pectines, that are covered in thousands of chemo-tactile peg sensilla and that …

Autonomous visual navigation of an indoor environment using a parsimonious, insect inspired familiarity algorithm

DD Gaffin, BP Brayfield - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The navigation of bees and ants from hive to food and back has captivated people for more
than a century. Recently, the Navigation by Scene Familiarity Hypothesis (NSFH) has been …