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Teams

World-wide there are several interdisciplinary research teams working in the area of precision beekeeping on a consistent basis

Scientific publications

titleorgsyear
Apis mellifera Bee Verification with IoT and Graph Neural Network
  • 🇲🇽 Instituto Tecnológico El Llano Aguascalientes
2025
Buzzing with Intelligence: A Systematic Review of Smart Beehive Technologies
  • 🇭🇷 University of Split
2025
Deep Learning-Based Detection of Honey Storage Areas in Apismellifera Colonies for Predicting Physical Parameters of Honey via Linear Regression
  • 🇹🇭  Chiang Mai University
2025
Evaluation of Single-Shot Object Detection Models for Identifying Fanning Behavior in Honeybees at the Hive Entrance
  • 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2025
IoT and Machine Learning Techniques for Precision Beekeeping:A Review
  • 🇺🇬 Makerere University
  • 🇹🇿 Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology
2025
Towards Varroa destructor mite detection using a narrow spectra illumination
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2025
Transformer Models improve the acoustic recognition of buzz-pollinating bee species
  • 🇧🇷 Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • 🇺🇸 University of Arizona
  • 🇨🇱 Universidad Católica del Maule
2025
⭐️ Deep Edge IoT for Acoustic Detection of Queenless Beehives
  • 🇬🇷 Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2025
⭐️ An AI-Based Open-Source Software for Varroa Mite Fall Analysis in Honeybee Colonies🇪🇸 University of Zaragoza 🇪🇸 University of La Rioja 🇪🇸 University of Valencia2025
Bee Together: Joining Bee Audio Datasets for Hive Extrapolation in AI-Based Monitoring🇫🇷 University of Toulouse2024
Advances in Beehive Monitoring Systems: Low-Cost Integrating Sensor Technology forImproved Apiculture Management
  • 🇷🇴 Research and Development Institute for Wildlife and Mountain Resources Miercurea Ciuc
  • 🇷🇴 Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
  • 🇷🇴 National Institute for Research and Development in Environmental Protection
  • 🇷🇴 National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Dracea"
2024
Honey bulk DNA metagenomic analysis to identify honey biological
  • 🇪🇪 Celvia CC AS
  • 🇪🇪 University of Tartu
  • 🇸🇪 Karolinska University Hospital
2024
Internet of Things Smart Beehive Network: Homogeneous Data,Modeling, and Forecasting the Honey Robbing Phenomenon
  • 🇵🇱 Warsaw University of Life Sciences
2024
Keypoint-Based Bee Orientation Estimation and Ramp Detection at the Hive Entrance for Bee Behavior Identification System
  • 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2024
Mapping Crop Types for Beekeepers Using Sentinel-2 Satellite Image Time Series: Five Essential Crops in the Pollination Services
  • 🇨🇦 Université de Montréal
2024
Open Remote Web Lab for Learning Robotics and ROS With Physical and Simulated Robots in an Authentic Developer Environment
  • 🇪🇪 University of Tartu
2024
Towards Robotic Mapping of a Honeybee Comb
  • 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University
  • 🇬🇧 Durham University
  • 🇦🇹 University of Graz
2024
The Use of Products with a Monitoring System for Remote Bee Detection in Beekeeping in Czechia
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2024
Varroa destructor detection on honey bees using hyperspectral imagery
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
  • 🇫🇮 LUT University
2024
Tracking Varroa Parasitism Using Handheld Infrared Cameras:Is Eusocial Fever the Key?
  • 🇭🇺 Hungarian University of Agricultureand Life Sciences
2024
Beehive Smart Detector Device for the Detection of CriticalConditions That Utilize Edge Device Computations and DeepLearning Inferences
  • 🇬🇷 University of Ioannina
2024
Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots
  • 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University
  • 🇦🇹 University of Graz
  • 🇬🇧 Durham University
  • 🇹🇷  Middle East Technical University
2024
Accuracy vs. Energy: An Assessment of Bee Object Inference inVideos from On-Hive Video Loggers with YOLOv3,YOLOv4-Tiny, and YOLOv7-Tiny
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2023
Ambient Electromagnetic Radiation as a Predictor of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Traffic in Linear and Non-Linear Regression: Numerical Stability, Physical Time and Energy Efficiency
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2023
Approximation of functions determining colony activity using neural networks. Master thesis
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2023
The Be-Hive Project - Counting Bee Traffic based on Deep Learning and Pose Estimation
  • 🇨🇾 CYENS Centre of Excellence
  • 🇨🇾 Cyprus University of Technology
  • 🇳🇱 University of Twente
2023
BeeNet: An End-To-End Deep Network For Bee Surveillance
  • 🇦🇺 Australian National University
  • 🇧🇩 BRAC University
  • 🇦🇺 Curtin University
  • 🇦🇺 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
2023
Bee colony remote monitoring based on IoT using ESP-NOW protocol
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
2023
Comparing weight dynamics between urban and rural honeybee colonies in Latvia
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
2023
Honey bees modify plantpollinator network structure
  • 🇨🇦 University of Alberta
2023
Identifying Queenlessness in Honeybee Hives from Audio Signals Using Machine Learning
  • 🇬🇧 Kingston University
2023
Importance of GIS solutions for beekeepers: a review
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
2023
HiveLink – IoT based Smart Bee Hive MonitoringSystem
  • 🇮🇳 St. Joseph Engineering College
  • 🇮🇳 Canara Engineering College
2023
Labeled dataset for bee detection and direction estimation on entrance to beehive
  • 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
2023
Machine Learning and Computer Vision Techniques in Continuous Beehive Monitoring Applications: A Survey
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2023
Pollinators as Data Collectors Estimating Floral Diversity with Bees and Computer Vision-2023
Raspberry Pi Bee Health Monitoring Device
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2023
Precision Beekeeping Systems: State of the Art, Pros and Cons, and Their Application as Tools for Advancing theBeekeeping Sector
  • 🇮🇹  University of Tuscia
  • 🇮🇹 University of Napoli Federico II
2023
Precision Monitoring of Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Activity and Pollen Diversity during Pollination to EvaluateColony Health
  • 🇦🇺 La Trobe University
2023
Varroa Destructor Classification Using Legendre Fourier Moments with Different Color Spaces
  • 🇲🇽 Universidad Politécnica de Tulancingo
2023
Defined exposure of honey bee colonies to simulated radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF): Negative effects on the homing ability, butn ot on brood development or longevity
  • 🇩🇪 University of Hohenheim
  • 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2023
A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards “Ecosystem Hacking” With Honeybees
  • 🇦🇹 University of Graz
  • 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University
  • 🇹🇷  Middle East Technical University
2022
Digital Transformation of Beekeeping through the Use of a Decision Making Architecture
  • 🇫🇷 Efrei Research Lab
  • 🇫🇷 PSL University
2022
Evaluation of the honey bee colonies weight gain during theintensive foraging period
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
2022
Honeybee Re-identification in Video: New Datasets and Impact of Self-supervision
  • 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico
2022
Integration of Scales and Cameras in Nondisruptive ElectronicBeehive Monitoring: On the Within-Day Relationship of HiveWeight and Traffic in Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Colonies in Langstroth Hives in Tucson, Arizona, USA
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2022
Smart Beehive Monitoring for Remote Regions - PhD thesis
  • 🇦🇺 University of Western Australia
2022
SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking
  • 🇺🇸  Princeton University
  • 🇺🇸 New York University
  • 🇺🇸 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2022
Automated Video Monitoring of Unmarked and Marked Honey Bees at the Hive Entrance
  • 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico
2022
Audio, Image, Video, and Weather Datasets for Continuous Electronic Beehive Monitoring
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2021
BeePIV: A Method to Measure Apis Mellifera Traffic with Particle Image Velocimetry in Videos
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2021
Honeybee In-Out Monitoring System by Object Recognition and Tracking from Real-Time Webcams
  • 🇰🇷 Incheon National University
2021
On Image Classification in Video Analysis of Omnidirectional Apis Mellifera Traffic: Random Reinforced Forests vs. Shallow Convolutional Networks
  • 🇺🇸 Utah State University
2021
Self-Powered Smart Beehive Monitoring and ControlSystem (SBMaCS)
  • 🇷🇼 University of Rwanda
  • 🇿🇲 Copperbelt University
  • 🇷🇼 National Council of Science and Technology
2021
Toward an intelligent and efficient beehive: A survey of precision beekeeping systems and services
  • 🇫🇷 aivancity School for Technology
  • 🇫🇷 Université de Lyon
2021
Visual Diagnosis of the Varroa Destructor Parasitic Mite in Honeybees Using Object Detector Techniques
  • 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology
2021
⭐️ Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony
  • 🇯🇵 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
2021
Analysis of Energy Consumption in a Precision Beekeeping System-2020
Current achievements and future developments of a novel AI based visual monitoring of beehives in ecotoxicology and for the monitoring of landscape structures-2020
Model for the bee apiary location evaluation
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
  • 🇩🇪 Humboldt University of Berlin
2020
Real-time, low-latency closed-loop feedback using markerless posture tracking
  • 🇺🇸 Harvard University
  • 🇬🇧 NeuroGEARS Ltd
  • 🇺🇸 University of Oregon
  • 🇨🇭 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
2020
The prediction of swarming in honeybee colonies using vibrational spectra
  • 🇬🇧 Nottingham Trent University
  • 🇫🇷  l’Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture
  • 🇧🇪 Centre Apicole de Recherche et d’Information
2020
⭐️ Automatic detection and classification of honey bee comb cells using deeplearning
  • 🇵🇹 Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
  • 🇧🇷 Federal Technological University of Paraná
  • 🇫🇷 Université Clermont-Auvergne
2020
BeeAlarmed. Masters thesis
  • 🇩🇪 South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences
2020
Automated monitoring of bee behaviour using connected hives Towards a computational apidology-2019
DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning
  • 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
  • 🇩🇪 University of Konstanz
  • 🇺🇸  Princeton University
  • 🇩🇪 Technische Universität München
2019
Modular sensory hardware and data processing solution forimplementation of the precision beekeeping
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
  • 🇩🇪 University of Kassel
2019
DeepBees – Building and Scaling Convolutional Neuronal Nets For Fast and Large-scale Visual Monitoring of Bee Hives
  • 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
2019
LabelBee: a web platform for large-scale semi-automated analysis of honeybee behavior from video
  • 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico
2019
A Preliminary Study of Image Analysis forParasite Detection on Honey Bees
  • 🇦🇹 Vienna University of Technology
  • 🇪🇸 Universidad de Oviedo
  • 🇪🇸 Universitat de Barcelona
2018
DeepLabCut: markerless pose estimation of user-defined body parts with deep learning
  • 🇩🇪 Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
  • 🇺🇸 Harvard University
  • 🇺🇸 Columbia University
  • 🇩🇪 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
  • 🇩🇪 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
  • 🇺🇸 Baylor College of Medicine
2018
Honeybees on the move - Pollination services and honey production-2018
Multiple Animals Tracking in VideoUsing Part Affinity Fields
  • 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico
2018
Recognition of Pollen-bearing Bees from Video using Convolutional Neural Network
  • 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico
2018
The development of honey bee coloniesassessed using a new semi-automated broodcounting method: CombCount
  • 🇦🇺 Macquarie University
  • 🇦🇺 Queensland University of Technology
  • 🇺🇸 Carl Hayden Bee Research Center
2018
Towards dense object tracking in a 2D honeybee hive
  • 🇯🇵 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
2018
Solution for automated bee colony weight monitoring
  • 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Agriculture
2017
Honey Bee Colonies Remote Monitoring System
  • 🇪🇸 University of Córdoba
2016
Reception and learning of electric fields in bees
  • 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin
2013
Biodiversity conservation and current threats to European honeybees
  • 🇪🇸 Universidad de Murcia
  •  🇩🇪 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
2009
Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dancesin honeybees--
Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects--
DeepLabCut-based daily behavioural and posture analysis in a cricket--
Intelligent beehive monitoring system based on internet of things and colony state analysis
  • 🇲🇾 Universiti Teknologi MARA
  • 🇨🇳 Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School
  • 🇨🇳 Xiamen University
  • 🇨🇳 Fujian Agriculture And Forestry University
  • 🇨🇳 Quanzhou University of Information Engineering
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Precision Apiculture – IoT System for Remote Monitoring of Honeybee Colonies
  • 🇲🇰 Ss. Cyril and Methodius University
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Social networks predict the life and death of honeybees--
Tracking All Members of a Honey Bee Colony Over Their Lifetime Using Learned Models of Correspondence--
myBee: An Information System for Precision Beekeeping
  • 🇧🇷 State University of Maringa
  • 🇧🇷 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Application of Data Layering in Precision Beekeeping The Concept--
Analysis of the Waggle Dance Motion of Honeybees for the Design of a Biomimetic Honeybee Robot--
Impact of the precision beekeeping on the living environment--
Automatic detection and decoding of honeybee waggle dances--

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