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Design And Evaluation Of Convolutional Networks For Video Analysis Of Bee Traffic, Prateek Vats Aug 2019

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All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been a major threat to bee colonies around the world which affects vital human food crop pollination. The decline in bee population can have tragic consequences, for humans as well as the bees and the ecosystem. Bee health has been a cause of urgent concern for farmers and scientists around the world for at least a decade but a specific cause for the phenomenon has yet to be conclusively identified.

A normal hive inspection can be very disruptive for the bee colony, as the hive needs to be disassembled to visually assess hive health from …