A new approach to address the mystery of cuttlefish camouflage

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We are continuing to collect cuttlefish images in their natural environment around Okinawa coast and also decided to collect videos in order to investigate the dynamic of camouflage in the field. To complement this video data set and have a higher image resolution, we also conducted video recording experiments in aquarium set up reconstituting naturally like background. We are fitting deep neural networks with these datasets to study high dimensional visual textures within neural network latent spaces. We are also conducting brain surgery experiments to prevent cuttlefish to camouflage in laboratory and better understand the neural control of this complex behavior. Finally, in order to determine the impact of visual environment on camouflage behavior, we exposed cuttlefish embryo to various visual environment and conducted video recording after hatching to assess the effects on camouflage behavior.