Author

Jan Steckel

University of AntwerpORCID 0000-0003-4489-466XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Assay:imaging· 1 Approach:simulation· 1 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 1 Research Focus:synaptic & neural circuits· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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Wouter JanseniD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2024-2026 · peak 1/yr

2 papers

Recent·Most cited

Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprintOct 23, 2026

Bats Could Learn Three-Dimensional Echolocation Using Echoacoustic Flow

Jan Steckel

This paper shows a simulated bat-like agent can learn its echolocation-related transfer function (ERTF) using echoacoustic flow without external guidance or labeled data.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.22.760884

simulation

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Animal Behavior & CognitionBiomimeticsPeer-reviewedMay 28, 2024

SonoNERFs: Neural Radiance Fields applied to Biological Echolocation Systems allow 3D Scene Reconstruction Through Perceptual Prediction

Wouter Jansen, Jan Steckel

This paper introduces SonoNERFs, a method using Neural Radiance Fields to model bat echolocation and reconstruct 3D scenes from acoustic data.

3 citations

spatial transcriptomicsimaging

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