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Table 1 Hypotheses tested in this work

From: A benchmark for computational analysis of animal behavior, using animal-borne tags

Hypothesis

Hypothesis confirmed?

(H1) Deep neural network-based approaches will outperform classical approaches based on hand-chosen summary statistics.

Yes, for the approaches we tested

(H2) Self-supervised pre-training using human accelerometer data will improve classification performance.

Partly

(H3) Self-supervised pre-training using human accelerometer data will improve classification performance when the amount of training data is reduced by a factor of four by removing individuals.

Yes

(H4) In terms of a single model’s predictive performance, there is minimal improvement in some behavior classes when increasing the amount of training data by four times by adding individuals.

Yes

  1. BEBE provides a means to identify patterns in behavior classification methods applied across multiple species and sensor types