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Animal movement studies have become ubiquitous in animal ecology for estimation of space use and analysis of movement behavior. In these studies, animal movement data are primarily collected at regular time intervals. We propose an…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-13 Elizabeth Eisenhauer , Ephraim Hanks

In recent years, there have been unprecedented technological advances in sensor technology, and sensors have become more affordable than ever. Thus, sensor-driven data collection is increasingly becoming an attractive and practical option…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Alireza Abdoli

This paper presents a generic motion model to capture mobile robots' dynamic behaviors (translation and rotation). The model is based on statistical models driven by white random processes and is formulated into a full state estimation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Wei Xu , Dongjiao He , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

A central task in the analysis of human movement behavior is to determine systematic patterns and differences across experimental conditions, participants and repetitions. This is possible because human movement is highly regular, being…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-23 Lars Lau Raket , Britta Grimme , Gregor Schöner , Christian Igel , Bo Markussen

The growing number of large databases of animal tracking provides an opportunity for analyses of movement patterns at the scales of populations and even species. We used analytical approaches, developed to cope with big data, that require…

Animal behavior spans many timescales, from short, seconds-scale actions to circadian rhythms over many hours to life-long changes during aging. Most quantitative behavior studies have focused on short-timescale behaviors such as locomotion…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Grace C. McKenzie-Smith , Scott W. Wolf , Julien F. Ayroles , Joshua W. Shaevitz

The need for high-throughput, precise, and meaningful methods for measuring behavior has been amplified by our recent successes in measuring and manipulating neural circuitry. The largest challenges associated with moving in this direction,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Gordon J. Berman

Inference on unknown quantities in dynamical systems via observational data is essential for providing meaningful insight, furnishing accurate predictions, enabling robust control, and establishing appropriate designs for future…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-06 M. Chung , M. Binois , R. B. Gramacy , D. J. Moquin , A. P. Smith , A. M. Smith

Joint modeling of spatially-oriented dependent variables is commonplace in the environmental sciences, where scientists seek to estimate the relationships among a set of environmental outcomes accounting for dependence among these outcomes…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Lu Zhang , Sudipto Banerjee , Andrew O. Finley

A method for sequential Bayesian inference of the static parameters of a dynamic state space model is proposed. The method is based on the observation that many dynamic state space models have a relatively small number of static parameters…

Computation · Statistics 2017-06-28 Arnab Bhattacharya , Simon Wilson

We consider the problem of understanding the coordinated movements of biological or artificial swarms. In this regard, we propose a learning scheme to estimate the coordination laws of the interacting agents from observations of the swarm's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Christos Mavridis , Amoolya Tirumalai , John Baras

Nonstationary non-Gaussian spatial data are common in many disciplines, including climate science, ecology, epidemiology, and social sciences. Examples include count data on disease incidence and binary satellite data on cloud mask…

Computation · Statistics 2020-11-30 Benjamin Seiyon Lee , Jaewoo Park

Modeling environmental ecosystems is essential for effective resource management, sustainable development, and understanding complex ecological processes. However, traditional data-driven methods face challenges in capturing inherently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Runlong Yu , Shengyu Chen , Yiqun Xie , Huaxiu Yao , Jared Willard , Xiaowei Jia

This paper proposes a new model for individuals movement in ecology. The movement process is defined as a solution to a stochastic differential equation whose drift is the gradient of a multimodal potential surface. This offers a new…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Pierre Gloaguen , Marie-Pierre Etienne , Sylvain Le Corff

In this paper, we propose a general hidden state random walk model to describe the movement of an animal that takes into account movement taxis with respect to features of the environment. A circular-linear process models the direction and…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-05 Aurélien Nicosia , Thierry Duchesne , Louis-Paul Rivest , Daniel Fortin

Mapping the surrounding environment is essential for the successful operation of autonomous robots. While extensive research has focused on mapping geometric structures and static objects, the environment is also influenced by the movement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Junyi Shi , Tomasz Piotr Kucner

Quantification of behavior is critical in applications ranging from neuroscience, veterinary medicine and animal conservation efforts. A common key step for behavioral analysis is first extracting relevant keypoints on animals, known as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shaokai Ye , Anastasiia Filippova , Jessy Lauer , Steffen Schneider , Maxime Vidal , Tian Qiu , Alexander Mathis , Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis

Whole-body humanoid motion represents a fundamental challenge in robotics, requiring balance, coordination, and adaptability to enable human-like behaviors. However, existing methods typically require multiple training samples per motion,…

In this report, we present HoloMotion-1, a humanoid motion foundation model for zero-shot whole-body motion tracking. A key innovation of HoloMotion-1 is to scale control-policy training with a large-scale hybrid motion corpus, where…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Maiyue Chen , Kaihui Wang , Bo Zhang , Xihan Ma , Zhiyuan Yang , Yi Ren , Qijun Huang , Zihao Zhu , Yucheng Wang , Zhizhong Su

Animal behavior serves as a reliable indicator of the adaptation of organisms to their environment and their overall well-being. Through rigorous observation of animal actions and interactions, researchers and observers can glean valuable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Edoardo Fazzari , Donato Romano , Fabrizio Falchi , Cesare Stefanini