CyNav Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Integrating Cyber-Physical Space

2024.04.25 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.5 has been released in April 2024.
2024.03.13 Awards Qingxin Xia, Takuya Maekawa, Jaime Morales, Takahiro Hara, Hirotomo Oshima, Masamitsu Fukuda and Yasuo Namioka received the Best WIP Paper Award in the 22nd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom2024) in France
2024.02.29 Press Releases Nature’s sonar: Scientists reveal how Japanese horseshoe bats perceive moving objects (Team HIRYU)
2023.11.29 Media The Naked Scientists "How albatrosses get airborne at sea"
2023.09.12 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.4 has been released in September 2023.
2023.06.27 Media Eurekalert! AAAS "Boy fly meets girl fly meets AI: Training an AI to recognize fly mating identifies a gene for mating positions"
2023.05.08 Competitions An activity recognition competition "OpenPack Challenge 2022" using the OpenPack dataset was hosted at a PerCom 2023 Workshop, and the top-5 winners gathered at the awards ceremony on March 13.
2023.03.20 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.3 has been released in March 2023.
2022.11.14 Media Tech Xplore "A palm-sized drone to track chemical plumes"
2022.11.03 Awards Keisuke Fujii and others received the Best Poster Award in ACM SIGSPATIAL 2022 for their poster presentation “Estimating Counterfactual Treatment Outcomes over Time in Complex Multiagent Simulation”
2022.08.04 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.2 has been released in August 2022.
2022.05.19 Press Releases What the new Jurassic Park movie gets wrong: Aerodynamic analysis causes a rethink of the biggest pterosaur (Team YODA)

2024.02.29 Press Releases Nature’s sonar: Scientists reveal how Japanese horseshoe bats perceive moving objects (Team HIRYU)
2022.05.19 Press Releases What the new Jurassic Park movie gets wrong: Aerodynamic analysis causes a rethink of the biggest pterosaur (Team YODA)
2022.03.22 Press Releases Spaces and echoes: Scientists reveal what bats “see” through sound　（Team HIRYU）
2022.02.22 Press Releases Following the inner compass: How birds find their ways to foreign lands （Team TAKAHASHI）

2024.04.23 Papers Adaptive action supervision in reinforcement learning from real-world multi-agent demonstrations
2024.04.15 Papers 機械学習による回帰モデルを用いたマルチエージェントシステムの移動軌跡による分類
2024.04.11 Papers OpenPack: A Large-scale Dataset for Recognizing Packaging Works in IoT-enabled Logistic Environments
2024.03.29 Papers Movement patterns of Japanese crayfish revealed by long-term tracking with a passive integrated transponder tag system
2024.03.27 Papers Can self-propelled objects escape from compression stimulation?
2024.03.05 Papers Heart rate reduction during voluntary deep diving in free-ranging loggerhead sea turtles
2024.02.26 Papers Estimating counterfactual treatment outcomes over time in complex multiagent scenarios
2024.02.21 Papers Exploring deep learning techniques for wild animal behaviour classification using animal-borne accelerometers
2024.01.29 Papers Usage of a Sensory-Motor Intervention System for Understanding the Adaptive Behavior of Insects
2024.01.16 Papers Automatic recording of rare behaviors of wild animals using video bio-loggers with on-board light-weight outlier detector
2023.12.12 Papers Decentralized policy learning with partial observation and mechanical constraints for multiperson modeling
2023.12.06 Papers Optogenetic activation of the VTA-hippocampal pathway facilitates rapid adaptation to changes in spatial goals

2024.04.25 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.5 has been released in April 2024.
2023.09.12 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.4 has been released in September 2023.
2023.03.20 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.3 has been released in March 2023.
2022.08.04 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.2 has been released in August 2022.
2022.01.07 Newsletter Hierarchical Bio-Navigation Newsletter Vol.1 has been released in January 2022.

2023.05.08 Competitions An activity recognition competition "OpenPack Challenge 2022" using the OpenPack dataset was hosted at a PerCom 2023 Workshop, and the top-5 winners gathered at the awards ceremony on March 13.

2023.11.29 Media The Naked Scientists "How albatrosses get airborne at sea"
2023.06.27 Media Eurekalert! AAAS "Boy fly meets girl fly meets AI: Training an AI to recognize fly mating identifies a gene for mating positions"
2022.11.14 Media Tech Xplore "A palm-sized drone to track chemical plumes"

Seminars
Kyoto Univ. had a special lecture and discussion with Yonsei Univ., Korea, : "Investigation on the Evolution of Humanity through Comparative Animal Research"　Shinya Yamamoto (Kyoto Univ.)

Workshops
Second International Workshop on Behavior analysis and Recognition for knowledge Discovery (BiRD 2023) has been held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on PerCom 2023

What is Hierarchical Bio-Navigation?

Our world is filled with the activities of animals, including humans, and artificial objects. “Hierarchical navigation” is the primary mechanism supporting biological and human society. In this project, we define “navigation” (how to reach a destination) as individual-level activity, “interaction” as a mutual influence among individuals and with the environment, and “hierarchical navigation” as the behavior of groups reaching destinations in a hierarchical manner. We will develop measurement devices and analysis methods to determine the essential components of hierarchical navigation and the causal relationships among the components. By creating a new academic field named “Hierarchical Bio-navigation,” we aim to transform the methodology and technology for the behavior of organisms, including humans.