Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP240101673

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP240101673

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Funded Activity Summary

Comparative analysis of sensor noise for target detection in dragonfly eyes. Dragonflies hunt tiny prey in the low-light conditions of late dusk, a signal-to-noise problem that challenges any engineered system. Using a comparative approach across dragonfly species, we aim to use novel optical and physiological measures to determine how sensors with noise underlie target-detection, in varying scene brightness. The project outcomes will be a comparative characterisation of signal-to-noise measures of dragonfly eye optics (including eye size) and early sensory neurons. We will match detection thresholds with downstream target-detecting neurons and dragonfly behaviour. This will provide insight into signal detection, which is a ubiquitous problem across information processing, computer vision and autonomous systems.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 2024

End Date: 12-2026

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $540,834.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Comparative physiology | Sensory systems | Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience) | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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