• by appointment

As a fellow of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), I use my expertise in image processing and machine learning to investigate fascinating and challenging questions in apidology.

• Machine Learning

• Computer Vision

• Quantitative Biology

Publication list

• P. Borlinghaus, ‘Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Apidology: A Focus on Data Acquisition, Object Detection, Colour Calibration, and Representation Learning’, Dissertation, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2025. Accessed: May 26, 2025, LINK.
• S. Huber, S. Wolf, T. Friedenberger, and P. Borlinghaus, ‘Wax Arts With Honeybees – Taking First Steps Toward Multispecies Co-Creation’, presented at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI), Bordeaux, Oct. 2024, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus, J. M. Gülzow, and R. Odemer, ‘In-Hive Flatbed Scanners for Non-Destructive, Long-Term Monitoring of Honey Bee Brood, Pathogens and Pests’, Smart Agricultural Technology, vol. 9, p. 100655, Nov. 2024, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus, R. Odemer, and F. Tausch, ‘Natural color dispersion of corbicular pollen limits color-based classification’, Open Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Mar. 2024, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus, J. Jung, and R. Odemer, ‘Introducing Pollenyzer: An App for Automatic Determination of Colour Diversity for Corbicular Pollen Loads’, Smart Agricultural Technology, p. 100263, Jun. 2023, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus and O. Grothe, ‘Improving Animal re-Identification by incorporating animal location information into probabilistic re-identification signals.’, presented at the German Probability and Statistics Days, Essen, Mar. 10, 2023, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus, F. Tausch, and L. Rettenberger, ‘A Purely Visual Re-ID Approach for Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)’, Smart Agricultural Technology, vol. 3, p. 100135, Feb. 2023, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus, R. Odemer, F. Tausch, K. Schmidt, and O. Grothe, ‘Honey bee counter evaluation – Introducing a novel protocol for measuring daily loss accuracy’, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, vol. 197, p. 106957, Jun. 2022, LINK.
• P. Borlinghaus and S. Huber, ‘Comparing Apples and Oranges: Human and Computer Clustered Affinity Diagrams Under the Microscope’, in 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, in IUI ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Apr. 2021, pp. 413–422. LINK.