Publications
Articles in Journals:
- T. G. Hallam, A. Raghavan, H. Kolli, D. Dimitrov, P. Federico, H. Qi, G. F. McCracken, M. Betke, J. K. Westbrook, K. Kennard, T. H. Kunz. "Dense and sparse aggregations in complex motion: Video coupled with simulation modeling." Ecological Complexity, 7(1):69-75, March 2010, pdf. 5 videos.
- N. Hristov, M. Betke, A. Bagchi, D. Hirsh Theriault, T. H. Kunz. "Seasonal variation in colony size of Brazilian free-tailed bats at Carlsbad Cavern using thermal imaging" Journal of Mammalogy, 91(1):183-192, February 2010. Abstract, pdf.
- N. I. Hristov, M. Betke, and T. H. Kunz, "Applications of thermal infrared imaging for research in aeroecology." Integrative and Comparative Biology. 48(1):50-59, July 2008. Abstract. Pdf file.
- P. Federico, T. G. Hallam, G. F. McCracken, S. Purucker, W. Grant, A. N. Sandoval, J. Westbrook, R. Medellin, C. Cleveland, C. G. Sansone, J. D. López Jr., M. Betke, A. Moreno-Valdez, T. H. Kunz, "Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) as insect pest regulators in transgenic and conventional cotton crops." Ecological Applications. 18(4):826-837, June 2008. Abstract, pdf.
- M. Betke, D. E. Hirsh, N. C. Makris, G. F. McCracken, M. Procopio,
N. I. Hristov, S. Tang, A. Bagchi, J. Reichard, J. Horn, S. Crampton,
C. J. Cleveland, and T. H. Kunz. "Thermal Imaging Reveals
Significantly Smaller Brazilian Free-tailed Bat Colonies than
Previously Estimated."
Journal of
Mammalogy, 89(1):18-24, February 2008.
Abstract,
pdf.
Also discussed in Nature, 452, Research Highlights, p. 507, pdf
- C. J. Cleveland, M. Betke, P. Federico, J. D. Frank, T. G. Hallam, J. Horn, J. D. Lopez Jr., G. F. McCracken, R. A. Medellin, A. Moreno-Valdez, C. G. Sansone, J. K. Westbrook, and T. H. Kunz. "Economic Value of the Pest Control Service Provided by Brazilian Free-tailed Bats in South-central Texas." Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 4(5):238-248, June 2006. pdf (restricted access).
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:
- D. H. Theriault, Z. Wu, N. I. Hristov, S. M. Swartz, K. S. Breuer, T. H. Kunz, and M. Betke. "Reconstruction and analysis of 3D trajectories of Brazilian free-tailed bats in flight." In Workshop on Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, August, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010. 4 pp.
- Z. Wu, N. I. Hristov, T. H. Kunz, and M. Betke. "Tracking-Reconstruction or Reconstruction-Tracking? Comparison of Two Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Approaches to Interpret 3D Object Motion from Several Camera Views." IEEE Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC) Snowbird, Utah, December 2009. 8 pp. pdf.
- Z. Wu, N. I. Hristov, T. L. Hedrick, T. H. Kunz, and M. Betke "Tracking a Large Number of Objects from Multiple Views." IEEE 12th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto Japan, September/October 2009. 8 pp. pdf.
- M. Betke, D. E. Hirsh, A. Bagchi, N. I. Hristov, N. C. Makris, and T. H. Kunz. Tracking large variable numbers of objects in clutter. In Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, MN, June 2007. 8 pp. pdf.