Characterisation and manipulation of urban light environments for fly control.

由苍蝇传播的疾病会导致人类和其他动物严重的危及生命的疾病，增加缺勤率并降低生产力。因此，苍蝇控制是城市害虫控制的重要组成部分。目前控制苍蝇的方法使用紫外线将苍蝇吸引到杀死装置。然而，关于苍蝇如何更广泛地对人类活动周围的视觉线索做出反应，人们知之甚少。更好地了解城市苍蝇视觉生态可以找到新的方法来控制苍蝇，并导致开发改进的陷阱，提高更长距离的吸引力，对人类的侵入性更小，消耗更少的能量。该项目旨在从苍蝇的角度来观察城市视觉环境，包括全光谱颜色，偏振和图案等方面。学生将接受来自视觉生态学的成像和视觉系统相关建模方法的培训，并使用这些方法来研究主要城市环境的空间和时间结构。然后，他们将实验性地操纵由这项建模工作确定的关键视觉线索，以研究苍蝇在长距离和短距离上的反应。目标是激发更好的控制技术，有效地操纵城市环境中的苍蝇行为。新的工程挑战将包括一个模型的fy视觉和成像管道的发展，这将使收集和量化的飞行视角的视觉环境。

Diseases spread by flies can cause serious life-threatening illness in humans and other animals, increase absenteeism and reduce productivity. Fly control is therefore an important part of urban pest control. Current approaches to fly control use ultraviolet light to attract flies to a kill device. However, little is known about how flies respond to visual cues around human activity more broadly. Understanding urban fly visual ecology better could find novel approached to fly control and lead to the development of refined traps that improve attraction over longer ranges, are less intrusive to humans, and consume less energy. This project aims to characterise urban visual environments from a fly's perspective, including aspects such as full-spectrum colour, polarisation and pattern. The student will be trained in imaging and visual system dependent modelling methods from visual ecology and use these to investigate the spatial and temporal structure of key urban environments. They will then experimentally manipulate key visual cues identified by this modelling work to investigate how flies respond at long and short ranges. The goal is to inspire better control technologies that effectively manipulate fly behaviour in urban environments. Novel engineering challenges will include development of a model of fy vision and an imaging pipeline that will enable collection and quantification of the fly-perspective visual environment.