Characterisation and manipulation of urban light environments for fly control.

苍蝇传播的疾病可能会导致人类和其他动物患上严重威胁生命的疾病，增加缺勤率，降低生产率。因此，苍蝇控制是城市有害生物控制的重要组成部分。目前控制苍蝇的方法是使用紫外线将苍蝇吸引到捕杀装置上。然而，对于苍蝇如何在更广泛的范围内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控制苍蝇的新方法，并导致开发出更精细的陷阱，这些陷阱可以在更长的距离内提高吸引力，对人类的侵扰更小，消耗的能源更少。该项目旨在从苍蝇的角度描述城市视觉环境，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依赖的建模方法的培训，并使用这些方法来调查主要城市环境的时空结构。然后，他们将试验性地操纵由这项建模工作确定的关键视觉线索，以调查苍蝇在长距离和近距离下的反应。其目标是激发更好的控制技术，有效地控制城市环境中的苍蝇行为。新的工程挑战将包括FY视觉模型和成像管道的开发，这将使飞行透视视觉环境的收集和量化成为可能。

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.