Simulated visual homing in desert ant natural environments: Efficiency of skyline cues

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 102, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 413-425

  Basten, Kai ^a   Mallot, Hanspeter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landmark cue; Local position information; Navigation; Place memory; UV vision; Visual homing

Indexed keywords

GRADIENT ASCENT; GROUND OBJECTS; LANDMARK CUE; LOCAL POSITION INFORMATION; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; OUTDOOR NAVIGATION; PANORAMIC IMAGES; PATH INTEGRATION; POSITION INFORMATION; SEMI-ARID ENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL ALIASING; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL MODELS; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL HOMING; VISUAL NAVIGATION; VISUAL SCENE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDFORMS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NAVIGATION;

ANIMALIA; AVIAN LEUKOSIS VIRUS; FORMICIDAE;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; CUES; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; HOMING BEHAVIOR; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL;

EID: 77952005563     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-010-0375-9     Document Type: Article

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