WilDrone Summer School
Programme
Latest update 11/9
Monday 22nd
Morning sessions (9-12)
09:00-09:15: Martin Wikelski, Director: Welcome to the Department of Migration of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
09:10-09:45: Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist: Welcome to the WildDrone PhD Summer School
09:45-10:00: Break (15 min)
10:00-10:45: Blair Costelloe: Scaling Up Behavioral Ecology
11:00-11:45: Maevatiana Ratsimbazafindranahaka: Whale conservation: drone-based monitoring, its promise, and barriers to global adoption
11:45-13:00: Lunch break (1h 15min)
Afternoon sessions (13-17)
13:00-13:45: Hemal Naik, Tutorial (1/2): Understanding the ecosystem of datasets in AI/Computer vision
13:45-13:50: Break (5 min)
13:50-14:35: Hemal Naik, Tutorial (2/2): Understanding the ecosystem of datasets in AI/Computer vision
14:35-15:00: Break (25 min)
15:00-15:45: Sam Penny (45 min) Deterring human wildlife conflict
15:45-15:50: Break (5 min)
15:50-16:35 Career Advice: Academic career paths, industrial options, and speaker stories
Tuesday 23rd
Morning sessions (9-12)
9:00-9:45: Adwait Deshpande (45 min) Collective behaviours in wild Indian wolves
9:45-10:00: Break (15 min)
10:00-10:45: Salua Hamaza (45 min) Drones for Nature Conservation – New Paradigms to Extend Environmental Monitoring Missions
10:45-11:00: Break (15 min)
11:00-11:45: Naomi Milner Navigating the social and political implications of using drones in conservation (45 min, online talk)
11:45-13:00: Lunch break (1h 15min)
Afternoon session (13-17):
13:00-13:45: Aamir Ahmad (1/2) (2*45 min) Automatic Animal Behavior Inference Tutorial: How to Rapidly Annotate Behavior on Long Drone Videos?
13:45-14:00: Break (15 min)
14:00-14:45: Aamir Ahmad (2/2) (2*45 min) Automatic Animal Behavior Inference Tutorial: How to Rapidly Annotate Behavior on Long Drone Videos?
14:45-15:00: Break
15:00-17:00: Poster session (2h)
Wednesday 24th
Morning session (9-12):
9:00 – 9:30: Daniel Rubenstein: How Machine Learning is Changing the Way Behavior can be Studied
9:30-9:45: Break (15 min)
9:45-10:30: Caroline Schuppli: On the Interface between Conservation and Animal Culture
10:30-10:45: Break (15 min)
10:45 – 11:45: Stefano Mintchev (1h) Aerial Robots for Biodiversity Surveys in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities from the XPRIZE Rainforest Competition
11:45-13:00: Lunch break (1hour)
Afternoon session (13-17):
13:00-14:00: Angela Albi (1/3) (1h Animal Tracking with Trex (talk and tutorial) part 1
14:00-14:05: Break (5 min)
14:05-15:05: Angela Albi (2/3) (3h) Animal Tracking with Trex (talk and tutorial) part 2
15:05-15:30: Break (25 min)
15:30-16:30: Angela Albi (3/3) (3h) Animal Tracking with Trex (talk and tutorial) part 3
Thursday 25th
Morning session (9-12):
9:00-9:45: Isla Duporge: Minimising acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms
9:45-10:00: Break (15 min)
10:00-10:45: Mike Costelloe, Workshop (1/2): What we talk about when we talk about design
10:45-11:00: Break (15 min)
11:00-11:45: Mike Costelloe, Workshop (2/2): What we talk about when we talk about design
11:45-13:00: Lunch break (1h 15min)
Afternoon session (13-17):
13:00-13:45: Hannah Williams: Natural and bio-inspired technologies reveal the importance of information networks in the sky for movement efficiency
13:45-14:00: Break (15 min)
14:00-17:00: Mathias Günther and Giovanni Reina: (3h) Tour of the Imaging Hangar
Friday 26th
Morning session (9-12):
9:00-9:45: Alejandro Jarabo Peñas (1/2) Integrating LLMs in robotics and drones
9:45-10:00: Break (15 min)
10:00-10:45: Alejandro Jarabo Peñas (2/2) Integrating LLMs in robotics and drones
10:45-11:00: Break (15 min)
11:00-12:00: Andrea Flack: Collective migration in soaring birds
12:00-13:00: Lunch break (1h)
Afternoon session (13-17):
13:00-13:45: Thomas Richardson: Flying Drones for Nature Conservation in the WildDrone Project
13:45-14:00: Break (15 min)
14:00-15:00: Tanya Berger-Wolf (1h) AI for Nature: From Science to Impact
15:00-15:15: Break (15 min)
15:15-16:15: Panel discussion: Biology and Robotics: Challenges ahead and integration between different sciences (Tanya, Stefano, Tom, Dan)
