WilDrone Summer School
Programme (tentative)
The final program with timings will be available on 15th August.
Monday 22nd
- Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist: Welcome & WildDrone
- Blair Costelloe: Scaling Up Behavioral Ecology
- Thomas Richardson: Flying Drones for Nature Conservation in the WildDrone Project
- Hemal Naik Tutorial: Understanding the ecosystem of datasets in AI/Computer vision
- Maevatiana Ratsimbazafindranahaka: Whale conservation: drone-based monitoring, its promise, and barriers to global adoption
Tuesday 23rd
- Adwait Deshpande: Collective behaviours in wild Indian wolves
- Salua Hamaza: Drones for Nature Conservation – New Paradigms to Extend Environmental Monitoring Missions
- Naomi Milner (online talk): To be announced (ethics in technology)
- Aamir Ahmad: Automatic Animal Behavior Inference Tutorial: How to Rapidly Annotate Behavior on Long Drone Videos?
- Poster session
Wednesday 24th
- Caroline Schuppli: On the Interface between Conservation and Animal Culture
- Angela Albi: Animal Tracking with Trex (talk and tutorial) part 1
- Angela Albi: Animal Tracking with Trex (talk and tutorial) part 2
- Stefano Mintchev: Aerial Robots for Biodiversity Surveys in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities from the XPRIZE Rainforest Competition
Thursday 25th
- Mike Costelloe Workshop: What we talk about when we talk about design
- Isla Duporge: Minimising acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms
- Mathias Günther and Giovanni Reina: Tour of the Imaging Hangar
Friday 26th
- Alejandro Jarabo Peñas: Integrating LLMs in robotics and drones
- Career Advice
- Andrea Flack: To be announced
- Tanya Berger-Wolf: To be announced
- Panel discussion: Biology and Robotics: Challenges ahead and integration between different sciences

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