Publications

A current list of publications and citation stats are available on Google Scholar.

* Equal contribution; †Student mentee

Preprints

Bennitt E*, Costelloe BR*, Koger B, Wielgus E, Musunga G, Caron A. Combining artificial intelligence and local ecological knowledge to document the largest ever-counted Cape buffalo mega-herd. bioRxiv 2025.11.26.689243

Skovorodnikov P, Zhao J, Buck F, Kay T, Frank DD, Koger B, Costelloe BR, Couzin ID, Razzauti J. FERAL: A video-understanding system for direct video-to-behavior mapping. bioRxiv 2025.11.16.688666

In press

Maalouf G, Richardson TS, Guerin DR, Watson M, Lundquist UPS, Costelloe BR, Pastucha E, Afridi S, Rolland EGA, Meier K, Jepsen JH, van der Sterren T, Laporte-Devylder L, Rondeau Saint-Jean C, Catricheo CAM, Shukla V, Iannino E†, Kline J, Nguyen Ngoc D, Njoroge W, Jensen K. SORA 2.5-guided BVLOS UAS for wildlife conservation in Kenya: reducing friction between safety and field operations. Accepted - Drones.

2026

Tuia D, Beery S, Costelloe BR, Oliver RY, Lecomte N. 2026. Towards “Digital Ecology”: Advances in integrating artificial intelligence from data generation to ecological insight. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 17: 222-227.

Lundquist UPS, Afridi S, Berthelot C, Nguyen Ngoc D, Hlebowicz K, Iannino E†, Laporte-Devylder L, Maalouf G, May G, Meier K, Catricheo CAM, Rolland E, Rondeau Saint-Jean C, Shukla V, Burghardt T, Christensen AL, Costelloe BR, Damen M, Flack A, Jensen K, Midtiby HS, Mirmehdi M, Remondino F, Richardson T, Risse B, Tuia D, Wahlberg M, Cawthorne D, Bullock S, Njoroge W, Mutisya S, Watson M, Pastucha E. 2026. WildDrone: Autonomous drone technology for monitoring wildlife populations. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 12: 1695319.

2025

Kline J, Stevens S, Maalouf G, Rondeau Saint-Jean C, Nguyen Ngoc D, Mirmehdi M, Guerin D, Burghardt T, Pastucha E, Costelloe BR, Watson IM, Richardson TS, Pagh Schultz Lundquist U. 2025. MMLA: Multi-environment, multi-species, low-altitude drone dataset. Paper presented at Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee, United States. PDF

Papadopoulou M, Ball M, Bartashevich P, Burns ALJ, Chiara V, Clark MA, Costelloe BR, Fele M, French F, Hauert S, Heinrich MK, Herbert-Read JE, Hoitt J, Ioannou CC, Landgraf T, Matchette SR, Polverino G, Sankey D, Scott D, Sridhar VH, Strömbom D, Trianni V, Vo-Doan TT, King AJ. 2025. Active interactions between animals and technology: biohybrid approaches for animal behaviour research. Animal Behaviour 224: 123160. PDF

2023

Koger B†, Hurme E, Costelloe BR, O’Mara MT, Wikelski M, Kays R, Dechmann DKN. 2023. An automated approach for counting groups of flying animals applied to one of the world’s largest bat colonies. Ecosphere 14: e4590. Open access

In the top 10% most-read papers in Ecosphere

Chen J*, Hu M*, Coker DJ, Berumen ML, Costelloe BR, Beery S, Rohrbach A, Elhoseiny M. 2023. MammalNet: A large-scale benchmark for mammal recognition and behavior understanding. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): 13052-13061. Open access

Koger B†, Deshpande A, Kerby JT, Graving JM, Costelloe BR*, Couzin ID*. 2023. Quantifying the movement, behavior, and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 1357-1371. Open access

Report on 3Sat NANO (in German - segment starts at 22:12)
Interview on RegioTV (in German)
One of the most-read and top-cited articles in the Journal of Animal Ecology
Cover article

2022

Tuia D*, Kellenberger B*, Beery S*, Costelloe BR*, Zuffi S, Risse B, Mathis A, Mathis M, Van Langevelde F, Burghardt T, Kays R, Klinck H, Wikelski M, Couzin ID, van Horn G, Crofoot M, Stewart C, Berger-Wolf T. 2022. Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation. Nature Communications 13: 792. Open access

Top 25 Life and Biological Sciences Papers of 2022 – Nature Communications
Article in Bionieuws magazine (in Dutch)

2019

Graving JM, Chae D, Naik H, Li L, Koger B, Costelloe BR, Couzin ID. 2019. DeepPoseKit: a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning. eLife 8: e47994. Open access

2018

Costelloe BR and Rubenstein DI. 2018. Temporal structuring of vigilance behaviour by female Thomson’s gazelles with hidden fawns. Animal Behaviour 145: 87-97. PDF

Costelloe BR. 2018. Participation by a male Grant’s gazelle in the defence of a fawn. African Journal of Ecology 56: 378-380.