A new approach to address the mystery of cuttlefish camouflage

我们将继续收集冲绳沿岸自然环境中的乌贼图像，并决定收集视频，以调查该领域的伪装动态。为了补充这一视频数据集，并有一个更高的图像分辨率，我们还进行了视频记录实验，在水族馆设置重建自然像背景。我们正在用这些数据集拟合深度神经网络，以研究神经网络潜在空间中的高维视觉纹理。我们还在进行脑外科手术实验，以防止乌贼在实验室伪装，并更好地了解神经控制这种复杂行为。最后，为了确定视觉环境对乌贼伪装行为的影响，我们将乌贼胚胎暴露于不同的视觉环境中，并在孵化后进行视频记录，以评估视觉环境对乌贼伪装行为的影响。

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.