Blair Costelloe
@blaircostelloe.bsky.social
Behavioral ecologist using drones to study collective behavior of African ungulates. Leader of HerdHover project and co-PI of WildDrone project. Project Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior, currently on TT job market. She/her.
Reposted by Blair Costelloe
FERAL goes wild:
🦓 Drone footage of Grevy’s zebras (with @blaircostelloe.bsky.social, Ben Koger and @icouzin.bsky.social)
Pose-estimation pipelines struggled to detect vigilance behavior from overhead drone videos.
FERAL identifies vigilance bouts directly from video.
🦓 Drone footage of Grevy’s zebras (with @blaircostelloe.bsky.social, Ben Koger and @icouzin.bsky.social)
Pose-estimation pipelines struggled to detect vigilance behavior from overhead drone videos.
FERAL identifies vigilance bouts directly from video.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
FERAL goes wild:
🦓 Drone footage of Grevy’s zebras (with @blaircostelloe.bsky.social, Ben Koger and @icouzin.bsky.social)
Pose-estimation pipelines struggled to detect vigilance behavior from overhead drone videos.
FERAL identifies vigilance bouts directly from video.
🦓 Drone footage of Grevy’s zebras (with @blaircostelloe.bsky.social, Ben Koger and @icouzin.bsky.social)
Pose-estimation pipelines struggled to detect vigilance behavior from overhead drone videos.
FERAL identifies vigilance bouts directly from video.
Reposted by Blair Costelloe
Give FERAL:
1. videos
2. behavioral annotations
FERAL fine-tunes a video foundation model on your data.
FERAL outputs:
- segmented ethograms
- model weights you can reuse
All in few lines of code (no ML or coding expertise needed). It runs easily on Google Colab.
Try it yourself: www.getferal.ai
1. videos
2. behavioral annotations
FERAL fine-tunes a video foundation model on your data.
FERAL outputs:
- segmented ethograms
- model weights you can reuse
All in few lines of code (no ML or coding expertise needed). It runs easily on Google Colab.
Try it yourself: www.getferal.ai
FERAL Documentation
www.getferal.ai
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Give FERAL:
1. videos
2. behavioral annotations
FERAL fine-tunes a video foundation model on your data.
FERAL outputs:
- segmented ethograms
- model weights you can reuse
All in few lines of code (no ML or coding expertise needed). It runs easily on Google Colab.
Try it yourself: www.getferal.ai
1. videos
2. behavioral annotations
FERAL fine-tunes a video foundation model on your data.
FERAL outputs:
- segmented ethograms
- model weights you can reuse
All in few lines of code (no ML or coding expertise needed). It runs easily on Google Colab.
Try it yourself: www.getferal.ai