Honeybee video-tracking for explosive detection

The utilization of honeybees for automatic explosive detection has been tested during the last few decades. Many biological and technical aspects have been considered, in order to understand all the possibilities for honeybee utilization for explosive detection. The scope of this research is an overview of the honey bees tracking capabilities during the video surveillance of areas potentially contaminated with land mines. The analysis of tracking results may guide to the conclusion of explosive existence which do not include human survey of the examined area. In this paper we present an approach for detection and tracking of honeybees, which enables obtaining a spatio-temporal histogram of honeybees occurrence, and eventually to conclude if there is explosive or not in the area under surveillance.