| A Hall-Effect Sensor-Based Queen Bee Detection System – a Proof of Concept | 2026 | 🇵🇱 AGH University of Krakow; 🇵🇱 Wrocław University of Science and Technology |
| Acoustic Signatures of Hive: Detecting Queen Bee Absence Through Machine Learning of Short Audio Segments | 2026 | 🇨🇱 Universidad de Viña del Mar; 🇨🇱 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María |
| An open-source high-precision hive for long-term honeybee observation and research | 2026 | 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University in Prague; 🇦🇹 University of Graz |
| Assessing Honey Bee Colony Health Using Temperature Time Series | 2026 | 🇦🇺 The University of Sydney; 🇦🇺 Macquarie University |
| BeeVe: Unsupervised Acoustic State Discovery in Honey Bee Buzzing | 2026 | 🇺🇳 arXiv author-supplied preprint by Hamze Hammami and Nidhal Abdulaziz |
| COMB: Common Open Modular robotic platform for Bees | 2026 | 🇩🇪 University of Konstanz; 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin |
| Continuous Non-Invasive Monitoring of Hive Entrance Activity Reveals Honey Bee Colony Dynamics | 2026 | 🇹🇷 Van Yüzüncü Yıl University |
| Detection and classification of honeybee castes using thermal imaging and deep learning | 2026 | 🇮🇷 Razi University |
| Estimating colony strength and pollination efficiency in honey bees using a novel dataset and deep learning-based models | 2026 | 🇺🇸 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville; 🇺🇸 Washington State University; 🇺🇸 University of Arkansas System; 🇺🇸 Mississippi State University; 🇺🇸 University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| Physics-aware vision instrumentation for stingless bee counting at hive entrance using hybrid edge-cloud object detection | 2026 | 🇲🇾 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; 🇮🇩 Universitas Negeri Jakarta; 🇮🇩 Institut Teknologi Indonesia; 🇮🇩 Politeknik Negeri Bandung; 🇮🇩 National Research and Innovation Agency |
| Evaluation of Single-Shot Object Detection Models for Identifying Fanning Behavior in Honeybees at the Hive Entrance | 2025 | 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Visual recognition of honeybee behavior patterns at the hive entrance | 2025 | 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| Autonomous tracking of honey bee behaviors over long-term periods with cooperating robots | 2024 | 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University; 🇦🇹 University of Graz; 🇬🇧 Durham University; 🇹🇷 Middle East Technical University |
| Honey bulk DNA metagenomic analysis to identify honey biological | 2024 | 🇪🇪 Celvia CC AS; 🇪🇪 University of Tartu; 🇸🇪 Karolinska University Hospital |
| Individual honey bee tracking in a beehive environment using deep learning and Kalman filter | 2024 | 🇹🇭 King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTTH) |
| IntelliBeeHive: An Automated Honey Bee, Pollen, and Varroa Destructor Monitoring System | 2024 | 🇺🇸 University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| Keypoint-Based Bee Orientation Estimation and Ramp Detection at the Hive Entrance for Bee Behavior Identification System | 2024 | 🇱🇹 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University |
| 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 | 2023 | 🇺🇸 Utah State University |
| Approximation of functions determining colony activity using neural networks. Master thesis | 2023 | 🇨🇿 Brno University of Technology |
| Comparing weight dynamics between urban and rural honeybee colonies in Latvia | 2023 | 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies |
| Defined exposure of honey bee colonies to simulated radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF): Negative effects on the homing ability, but not on brood development or longevity | 2023 | 🇩🇪 University of Hohenheim; 🇩🇪 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
| Honey bees modify plantpollinator network structure | 2023 | 🇨🇦 University of Alberta |
| Identifying Queenlessness in Honeybee Hives from Audio Signals Using Machine Learning | 2023 | 🇬🇧 Kingston University |
| Precision Monitoring of Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Activity and Pollen Diversity during Pollination to EvaluateColony Health | 2023 | 🇦🇺 La Trobe University |
| The Be-Hive Project - Counting Bee Traffic based on Deep Learning and Pose Estimation | 2023 | 🇨🇾 CYENS Centre of Excellence; 🇨🇾 Cyprus University of Technology; 🇳🇱 University of Twente |
| A Minimally Invasive Approach Towards “Ecosystem Hacking” With Honeybees | 2022 | 🇦🇹 University of Graz; 🇨🇿 Czech Technical University; 🇹🇷 Middle East Technical University |
| Automated Video Monitoring of Unmarked and Marked Honey Bees at the Hive Entrance | 2022 | 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico; 🇺🇸 Brown University; 🇺🇸 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (Janelia Research Campus) |
| Bio-Hybrid Systems for Ecosystem Level Effects | 2022 | 🇦🇹 University of Graz; 🇩🇪 Humboldt University of Berlin; 🇨🇭 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne; 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies |
| Evaluation of the honey bee colonies weight gain during theintensive foraging period | 2022 | 🇱🇻 Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies |
| Impact of the Precision Beekeeping on the Living Environment | 2022 | 🇷🇸 University of Niš; 🇷🇸 Belgrade Metropolitan University |
| SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking | 2022 | 🇺🇸 Princeton University; 🇺🇸 New York University; 🇺🇸 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
| BeePIV: A Method to Measure Apis Mellifera Traffic with Particle Image Velocimetry in Videos | 2021 | 🇺🇸 Utah State University |
| DeepLabCut-based daily behavioural and posture analysis in a cricket | 2021 | 🇯🇵 Waseda University |
| Honeybee In-Out Monitoring System by Object Recognition and Tracking from Real-Time Webcams | 2021 | 🇰🇷 Incheon National University |
| Janus: A Combined Radar and Vibration Sensor for Beehive Monitoring | 2021 | 🇺🇸 University of Maine |
| Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony | 2021 | 🇯🇵 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University; 🇦🇺 Australian National University; 🇳🇱 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| On Image Classification in Video Analysis of Omnidirectional Apis Mellifera Traffic: Random Reinforced Forests vs. Shallow Convolutional Networks | 2021 | 🇺🇸 Utah State University |
| Social networks predict the life and death of honeybees | 2021 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇩🇪 Robert Koch Institute; 🇩🇪 University of Konstanz; 🇺🇸 Auburn University; 🇺🇸 University of Hohenheim |
| BeeAlarmed. Masters thesis | 2020 | 🇩🇪 South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences |
| Current achievements and future developments of a novel AI based visual monitoring of beehives in ecotoxicology and for the monitoring of landscape structures | 2020 | 🇩🇪 apic.ai GmbH |
| Real-time, low-latency closed-loop feedback using markerless posture tracking | 2020 | 🇺🇸 Harvard University; 🇬🇧 NeuroGEARS Ltd; 🇺🇸 University of Oregon; 🇨🇭 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology |
| The prediction of swarming in honeybee colonies using vibrational spectra | 2020 | 🇬🇧 Nottingham Trent University; 🇫🇷 l’Institut National de Recherche en Agriculture; 🇧🇪 Centre Apicole de Recherche et d’Information |
| Automated monitoring of bee behaviour using connected hives: Towards a computational apidology | 2019 | 🇫🇷 CNRS Research Center on Animal Cognition; 🇫🇷 Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier |
| LabelBee: a web platform for large-scale semi-automated analysis of honeybee behavior from video | 2019 | 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico |
| Dancing Honey bee Robot Elicits Dance-Following and Recruits Foragers | 2018 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇩🇪 Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries |
| Honeybees on the move - Pollination services and honey production | 2018 | 🇺🇸 United States Department of Agriculture; 🇺🇸 United States Environmental Protection Agency |
| Multiple Animals Tracking in VideoUsing Part Affinity Fields | 2018 | 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico |
| Recognition of Pollen-bearing Bees from Video using Convolutional Neural Network | 2018 | 🇵🇷 University of Puerto Rico |
| Towards dense object tracking in a 2D honeybee hive | 2018 | 🇯🇵 Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University; 🇳🇱 VU University Amsterdam |
| Tracking All Members of a Honey Bee Colony Over Their Lifetime Using Learned Models of Correspondence | 2018 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇩🇪 University of Konstanz; 🇩🇪 Robert Koch Institute; 🇺🇸 Auburn University; 🇺🇸 University of Hohenheim |
| Automatic detection and decoding of honey bee waggle dances | 2017 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin |
| Pollen Bearing Honey Bee Detection in Hive Entrance Video Recorded by Remote Embedded System for Pollination Monitoring | 2016 | 🇧🇦 University of Banja Luka |
| Automatic methods for long-term tracking and the detection and decoding of communication dances in honeybees | 2015 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇬🇧 University of Sussex |
| Reception and learning of electric fields in bees | 2013 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin |
| Analysis of the Waggle Dance Motion of Honeybees for the Design of a Biomimetic Honeybee Robot | 2011 | 🇩🇪 Freie Universität Berlin; 🇬🇧 University of Cambridge |
| Biodiversity, conservation and current threats to European honeybees | 2009 | 🇪🇸 Universidad de Murcia; 🇩🇪 Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; 🇮🇹 CRA-API |
