Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

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RenderGAN: Generating Realistic Labeled Data (2016, methodology): “A system, previously developed for ants (Mersch et al., 2013) was shown to successfully track 100 bees for 2 days Blut et al.”
Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees (2015, methodology): “Only one marker-based system was developed in Lausanne (Mersch et al., 2013) for the use with a few hundred ants which were kept in an open arena.”
BEEtag: A Low-Cost, Image-Based Tracking System for the Study of Animal Behavior and Locomotion (2015, background): “While such marker-systems have previously been used for high-throughput behavioral studies in ants [10], previous software packages are either not optimized for recognizing isolated tags (as desired for most applications in animal movement), or suffer from licensing issues, making access to these te”
AprilTag 2: Efficient and robust fiducial detection (2016, methodology): “From top left, clockwise: robot-to-robot localization and identification on MAGIC robots, object localization for Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot, testing of virtual reality headsets at Valve, and tracking individual ants to study their social organization [4].”