AIIC AI Intelligence Centre

SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE

Optical-Flow Wingbeat Counting in MuJoCo: A Comparison of Convolutional, Spiking, and Attention-Based Temporal Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 15, 2026 · UTC

Visual monitoring of flapping-wing vehicles requires distinguishing individual wingbeats from motion strength and average frequency. This paper presents a controlled MuJoCo evaluation of wingbeat counting from signed optical flow observed by virtual cameras mounted on Crazyflie vehicles. Three flapping-wing models were recorded at optical distances of 1.5 and 3.0 m, producing 1,440 clips from 240 paired scene configurations with a scene-level 3:1 training-test split. A common spatial convolutional encoder was combined with a causal temporal convolutional network, a recurrent leaky integrate-an

Read original source ↗ Open in workspace

recordType
paper
region
Global

Evidence & attribution

First collected: 2026-09-20T08:40:59.508Z. This is not the publication date.