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38 annotated images of honeybees in hives.

The images were collected as part of a still unpublished study that was performed from July 14, 2018 to September 13, 2018 by the Robinson Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, Illinois, USA. During this experiment, 6 honey bee colonies consisting of ~1,200 barcoded bees housed inside an observation hive were recorded with the tracking rig described in [1] and [2].

Each insect is annotated as a polygon.
Annotations are contained in JSON file:  `instances_default.json` in the COCO format.
Images were annotated by hand or semi-automatically (e.g., using Segment Anything).

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[1] Gernat, T., Rao, V. D., Middendorf, M., Dankowicz, H., Goldenfeld, N., Robinson, G. E. (2018). Automated monitoring of behavior reveals bursty interaction patterns and rapid spreading dynamics in honey bee social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(7). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713568115.

[2] Geffre, A. C., Gernat, T., Harwood, G. P., Jones, B. M., Morselli Gysi, D., Hamilton, A. R., Bonning, B. C., Toth, A. L., Robinson, G. E., & Dolezal, A. G. (2020). Honey bee virus causes context-dependent changes in host social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(19). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2002268117