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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