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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Images of villages in Mali in which Bankan Tey (Dogon family) is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
- Keyword:
- villages, Dogon, Bankan Tey, and Mali
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Curlis, JD, Renney, TJ, Davis Rabosky, AR, and Moore, TY
- Description:
- Efficient comparisons of biological color patterns are critical for understanding the mechanisms by which organisms evolve in ecosystems, including sexual selection, predator-prey interactions, and thermoregulation. However, elongate or spiral-shaped organisms do not conform to the standard orientation and photographic techniques required for automated analysis. Currently, large-scale color analysis of elongate animals requires time-consuming manual landmarking, which reduces their representation in coloration research despite their ecological importance. We present Batch-Mask: an automated and customizable workflow to facilitate the analysis of large photographic data sets of non-standard biological subjects. First, we present a user guide to run an open-source region-based convolutional neural network with fine-tuned weights for identifying and isolating a biological subject from a background (masking). Then, we demonstrate how to combine masking with existing manual visual analysis tools into a single streamlined, automated workflow for comparing color patterns across images. Batch-Mask was 60x faster than manual landmarking, produced masks that correctly identified 96% of all snake pixels, and produced pattern energy results that were not significantly different from the manually landmarked data set. The fine-tuned weights for the masking neural network, user guide, and automated workflow substantially decrease the amount of time and attention required to quantitatively analyze non-standard biological subjects. By using these tools, biologists will be able to compare color, pattern, and shape differences in large data sets that include significant morphological variation in elongate body forms. This advance will be especially valuable for comparative analyses of natural history collections, and through automation can greatly expand the scale of space, time, or taxonomic breadth across which color variation can be quantitatively examined.
- Keyword:
- convolutional neural network, photography, sensory ecology, color evolution, vision, and image segmentation
- Citation to related publication:
- Curlis, Renney, Davis Rabosky, Moore (submitted) Batch-Mask: An automated Mask R-CNN workflow to isolate non-standard biological specimens for color pattern analysis.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Weng, Andrew, Mohtat, Peyman, Attia, Peter, Less, Greg, Lee, Suhak, and Stefanopoulou, Anna
- Description:
- The goal of this research is to investigate the impact of fast formation protocol on battery lifetime. The dataset has also been used to explore data-driven approaches in battery lifetime estimation (manuscript under review). Source code used to generate the results for this work has been included. The file contents contain a detailed README.md file which describes the organization of the files.
- Citation to related publication:
- Weng et al., Predicting the impact of formation protocols on battery lifetime immediately after manufacturing, Joule (2021), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.09.015
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Tye, Alexander R, Wolf, Aaron S, and Niemi, Nathan A
- Description:
- Detrital zircon age distributions provide robust insights into past sedimentary systems, but these age distributions are often complex and multi-peaked, with sample sizes too small to confidently resolve population distributions. This limited sampling hinders existing quantitative methods for comparing detrital zircon age distributions, which show systematic dependence on the sizes of compared samples. The proliferation of detrital zircon studies motivates the development of more robust quantitative methods. We present the first attempt, to our knowledge, to infer probability model ensembles (PMEs) for samples of detrital zircon ages using a Bayesian method. Our method infers the parent population age distribution from which a sample is drawn, using a Monte Carlo approach to aggregate a representative set of probability models that is consistent with the constraints that the sample data provide. Using the PMEs inferred from sample data, we develop a new estimate of correspondence between detrital zircon populations called Bayesian Population Correlation (BPC). Tests of BPC on synthetic and real detrital zircon age data show that it is nearly independent from sample size bias, unlike existing correspondence metrics. Robust BPC uncertainties can be readily estimated, enhancing interpretive value. When comparing two partially overlapping zircon age populations where the shared proportion of each population is independently varied, BPC results conform almost perfectly to expected values derived analytically from probability theory. This conformity of experimental and analytical results permits direct inference of the shared proportions of two detrital zircon age populations from BPC. We provide MATLAB scripts to facilitate the procedures we describe.
- Keyword:
- provenance, statistics, zircon, Bayesian, detrital, and density estimation
- Citation to related publication:
- A.R. Tye, A.S. Wolf, N.A. Niemi, Bayesian population correlation: A probabilistic approach to inferring and comparing population distributions for detrital zircon ages, Chemical Geology, Volume 518, 2019, Pages 67-78, ISSN 0009-2541, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.039
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Five-part documentary on making apiaries and collecting honey. Vigué ethnicity, Viemo language. location: near Karangasso-Vigué, southwestern Burkina Faso. credits at end of videos. Other documentaries from Burkina may be added later.
- Keyword:
- Burkina Faso, Vigué, Viemo, beekeeping, and apiary
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Reed, Matthew P., Boyle, K.
- Description:
- This is the first physical anthropomorphic test device to be based both on statistical body shape models as well as 3D printing.
- Keyword:
- Child Belt Fit Manikin
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Images of villages in Mali in which Ben Tey (Dogon family) is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
- Keyword:
- villages, Dogon, Ben Tey, and Mali
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Fries, Kevin J.
- Description:
- This data is in support of the WRR paper by Fries and Kerkez: Big Ship Data: Using Vessel Measurements to Improve Estimates of Temperature and Wind Speed on the Great Lakes Code is also provided
- Keyword:
- Gaussian process regression, Data integration, Wind speed, Water surface temperature, Air temperature, and student-friendly
- Citation to related publication:
- Fries, K., and B. Kerkez (2017), Big Ship Data: Using vessel measurements to improve estimates of temperature and wind speed on the Great Lakes, Water Resour. Res., 53, 3662–3679, http://doi.org/10.1002/2016WR020084.
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced in an attempt to characterize the turning and steering behaviors of 1-DoF multi-legged (hexpedal in this case) robots. Such turning behaviors require sliding contact points. All the data is provided in a single, large .csv.gz file (416256 rows); additional details and example code in the README
- Keyword:
- robot, multilegged, and steering
- Citation to related publication:
- BIRDS Lab, U. BigAnt v6 robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/024q-kk06, Revzen, S., & Guckenheimer, J. (2008). Estimating the phase of synchronized oscillators. Phys. Rev. E, 78, 051907. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.78.051907, and Dan Zhao and Shai Revzen 2020 Bioinspir. Biomim. 15 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
- Discipline:
- Engineering
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced in an attempt to characterize the turning and steering behaviors of 1-DoF multi-legged (hexpedal in this case) robots. Such turning behaviors require sliding contact points. The .tar file contains multiple trials in .csv.gz format, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README. Additional metadata for the trials is given in the metadata.py file in both machine and human readable form.
- Keyword:
- robot, multilegged, and steering
- Citation to related publication:
- Dan Zhao and Shai Revzen 2020 Bioinspir. Biomim. 15 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
- Discipline:
- Engineering