Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.x3ffbg7x8

Description of the data and file structure

The following data was collected as a demonstration using the BumbleBox, a device built to automate the capture of behavioral data in social insects. The following files were captured over the course of a day to demonstrate the normal output for the system, based on standard settings. Videos were not recorded to minimize storage requirements. Data capture was taken every 5 minutes for 24 hours, and for each data capture period there is a corresponding raw, updated, averages, pairwise distance, contacts, and noID csv file. There is also a single labelled nest csv file for the day based on the composite image that was created for that day. 

Raw: this saves the date and time, frame number of the video, bee ID, and the (x,y) coordinates of the center of the Aruco tag and the top-center of the Aruco tag

Updated: this file is a modified version of the raw file, but is interpolated and adds columns that calculate the speed of the bee (in pixels) from frame to frame, and the distance from the social center of the nest, which is calculated by averages the (x,y) coordinates of all bees in the nest.

Averages: this file presents a running average for the bees of certain metrics like distance from center, speed, and number of frames tracked in each recording period.

Pairwise distance: this file is a matrix representing the distance between each tracked bee at each frame of the video.

Contacts: this file presents a list of contacts, which turns the pairwise distance matrix into a matrix of ones and zeros, where before the threshold distance, two bees are in contact (1), while outside of it, they are not (0).

noID files can be used for tracking optimization purposes - these store the instances and locations where the tracking code found but rejected potential tag-like objects. 

The nest image file demonstrates what an annotated csv file of a composite nest image looks like. The object index will remain the same value if the rows all relate to the same object. 

Code/software

All files are csv files, so any text editing software should work!

Access information

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