Professor Colin Torney

  • Professor of Applied Mathematics (Mathematics)

Research interests

My research uses mathematical modelling and machine learning to study ecology and animal movement.

Please see my website for further information:
https://www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~ctorney/

Research groups

Publications

List by: Type | Date

Jump to: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2011
Number of items: 34.

2024

Masolele, M. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. and Torney, C. J.T. (2024) Efficient approximate Bayesian inference for quantifying uncertainty in multiscale animal movement models. Ecological Informatics, (Accepted for Publication)

Kavwele, C. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Morales, J. M. , Nyafi, G., Kimuya, N. and Torney, C. J. (2024) Real‐time classification of Serengeti wildebeest behaviour with edge machine learning and a long‐range IoT network. Canadian Journal of Zoology, (Accepted for Publication)

Kavwele, C. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Davy, D. and Torney, C. J. (2024) Automated and repeated aerial observations of GPS‐collared animals using UAVs and open‐source electronics. Ecosphere, 15(4), e4841. (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4841)

2023

Rathore, A., Sharma, A., Shah, S., Sharma, N., Torney, C. and Guttal, V. (2023) Multi-Object Tracking in Heterogeneous environments (MOTHe) for animal video recordings. PeerJ, 11, e15573. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.15573) (PMID:37397020) (PMCID:PMC10309051)

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2023) Stochastic variational inference for scalable non-stationary Gaussian process regression. Statistics and Computing, 33(2), 44. (doi: 10.1007/s11222-023-10210-w)

Gaskell, J. , Campioni, N., Morales, J. M. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2023) Inferring the interaction rules of complex systems with graph neural networks and approximate Bayesian computation. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 20(198), 20220676. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0676) (PMID:36596456)

Torney, C. J. , Laxton, M., Lloyd‐Jones, D. J., Kohi, E. M., Frederick, H. L., Moyer, D. C., Mrisha, C., Mwita, M. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2023) Estimating the abundance of a group-living species using multi-latent spatial models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13941)

2022

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. , Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Masolele, M. M. and Torney, C. J. (2022) Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous-time velocity model. Ecology Letters, 25(12), pp. 2726-2738. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14117) (PMID:36256526)

Kavwele, C. M., Torney, C. J. , Morrison, T. A. , Fulford, S., Masolele, M. M., Masoy, J. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2022) Non‐local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(3), e12159. (doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12159)

2021

Campioni, N., Husmeier, D. , Morales, J. , Gaskell, J. and Torney, C. J. (2021) Inferring microscale properties of interacting systems from macroscale observations. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043074. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043074)

Torney, C. J. , Morales, J. M. and Husmeier, D. (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. Movement Ecology, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-021-00242-0) (PMID:33602302)

2020

Campioni, N., Husmeier, D. , Morales, J. M. , Gaskell, J. and Torney, C. J. (2020) Modelling multiscale collective behavior with Gaussian processes. In: Ladde, G. and Samia, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 124. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.124)

Gaskell, J. , Campioni, N., Morales, J. M. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2020) Approximate Bayesian inference for individual-based models with emergent dynamics. In: Ladde, G. and Samia, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 125. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.125)

2019

Evans, J. C., Torney, C. J. , Votier, S. C. and Dall, S. R. X. (2019) Social information use and collective foraging in a pursuit diving seabird. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222600. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222600) (PMID:31545848) (PMCID:PMC6756525)

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. (2019) A Study on Discrete-Time Movement Models. In: International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA’19), Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 Aug 2019, p. 27. ISBN 9781927877647 (doi: 10.11159/icsta19.27)

Torney, C. J. , Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Chevallier, M., Moyer, D. C., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Kohi, E. M. and Hopcraft, J.G.C. (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), pp. 779-787. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13165)

2018

Torney, C. J. , Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Morrison, T. A. , Couzin, I. D. and Levin, S. A. (2018) From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170012. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0012) (PMID:29581397) (PMCID:PMC5882982)

Torney, C. J. , Lamont, M., Debell, L., Angohiatok, R. J., Leclerc, L.-M. and Berdahl, A. M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170385. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0385) (PMID:29581404)

Westley, P. A.H., Berdahl, A. M., Torney, C. J. and Biro, D. (2018) Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170004. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0004) (PMID:29581389)

Faust, C. L. , McCallum, H. I., Bloomfield, L. S.P., Gottdenker, N. L., Gillespie, T. R., Torney, C. J. , Dobson, A. P. and Plowright, R. K. (2018) Pathogen spillover during land conversion. Ecology Letters, 21(4), pp. 471-483. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12904) (PMID:29466832)

2017

Ioannou, C. C., Ramnarine, I. W. and Torney, C. (2017) High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish. Science Advances, 3(5), e1602682. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602682)

Valletta, J. J., Torney, C. , Kings, M., Thornton, A. and Madden, J. (2017) Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies. Animal Behaviour, 124, pp. 203-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005)

2016

Berdahl, A., van Leeuwen, A., Levin, S. A. and Torney, C. J. (2016) Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations. Movement Ecology, 4(1), 18. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-016-0083-8) (PMID:27429757) (PMCID:PMC4946155)

Torney, C. J. , Dobson, A. P., Borner, F., Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Moyer, D., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Fredrick, H., Borner, M. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2016) Assessing rotation-invariant feature classification for automated wildebeest population counts. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0156342. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156342) (PMID:27227888) (PMCID:PMC4881999)

2015

Hein, A. M., Rosenthal, S. B., Hagstrom, G. I., Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. and Couzin, I. D. (2015) The evolution of distributed sensing and collective computation in animal populations. eLife, 4, e10955. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10955) (PMID:26652003) (PMCID:PMC4755780)

Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. , Schertzer, E. and Levin, S. A. (2015) On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Evolution, 69(6), pp. 1390-1405. (doi: 10.1111/evo.12664)

Torney, C. J. , Lorenzi, T., Couzin, I. D. and Levin, S. A. (2015) Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 12(103), (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0893) (PMID:25519991) (PMCID:PMC4305405)

2014

Kao, A. B., Miller, N., Torney, C. , Hartnett, A. and Couzin, I. D. (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(8), e1003762. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003762) (PMID:25101642) (PMCID:PMC4125046)

2013

Strandburg-Peshkin, A. et al. (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology, 23(17), R709-R711. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.059) (PMID:24028946) (PMCID:PMC4780851)

Coburn, L., Cerone, L., Torney, C. , Couzin, I. D. and Neufeld, Z. (2013) Tactile interactions lead to coherent motion and enhanced chemotaxis of migrating cells. Physical Biology, 10(4), 046002. (doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/4/046002) (PMID:23752100)

Torney, C. J. , Levin, S. A. and Couzin, I. D. (2013) Decision accuracy and the role of spatial interaction in opinion dynamics. Journal of Statistical Physics, 151(1-2), pp. 203-217. (doi: 10.1007/s10955-013-0700-5)

Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. , Ioannou, C. C., Faria, J. J. and Couzin, I. D. (2013) Emergent sensing of complex environments by mobile animal groups. Science, 339(6119), pp. 574-576. (doi: 10.1126/science.1225883) (PMID:23372013)

2011

Couzin, I. D., Ioannou, C. C., Demirel, G., Gross, T., Torney, C. J. , Hartnett, A., Conradt, L., Levin, S. A. and Leonard, N. E. (2011) Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups. Science, 334(6062), pp. 1578-1580. (doi: 10.1126/science.1210280) (PMID:22174256)

Torney, C. J. , Berdahl, A. and Couzin, I. D. (2011) Signalling and the evolution of cooperative foraging in dynamic environments. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(9), e1002194. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002194) (PMID:21966265) (PMCID:PMC3178622)

This list was generated on Wed Nov 20 16:50:05 2024 GMT.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 34.

Articles

Masolele, M. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. and Torney, C. J.T. (2024) Efficient approximate Bayesian inference for quantifying uncertainty in multiscale animal movement models. Ecological Informatics, (Accepted for Publication)

Kavwele, C. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Morales, J. M. , Nyafi, G., Kimuya, N. and Torney, C. J. (2024) Real‐time classification of Serengeti wildebeest behaviour with edge machine learning and a long‐range IoT network. Canadian Journal of Zoology, (Accepted for Publication)

Kavwele, C. M., Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Davy, D. and Torney, C. J. (2024) Automated and repeated aerial observations of GPS‐collared animals using UAVs and open‐source electronics. Ecosphere, 15(4), e4841. (doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4841)

Rathore, A., Sharma, A., Shah, S., Sharma, N., Torney, C. and Guttal, V. (2023) Multi-Object Tracking in Heterogeneous environments (MOTHe) for animal video recordings. PeerJ, 11, e15573. (doi: 10.7717/peerj.15573) (PMID:37397020) (PMCID:PMC10309051)

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2023) Stochastic variational inference for scalable non-stationary Gaussian process regression. Statistics and Computing, 33(2), 44. (doi: 10.1007/s11222-023-10210-w)

Gaskell, J. , Campioni, N., Morales, J. M. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2023) Inferring the interaction rules of complex systems with graph neural networks and approximate Bayesian computation. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 20(198), 20220676. (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2022.0676) (PMID:36596456)

Torney, C. J. , Laxton, M., Lloyd‐Jones, D. J., Kohi, E. M., Frederick, H. L., Moyer, D. C., Mrisha, C., Mwita, M. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2023) Estimating the abundance of a group-living species using multi-latent spatial models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(1), pp. 77-86. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210x.13941)

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. , Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Masolele, M. M. and Torney, C. J. (2022) Inferring spatially varying animal movement characteristics using a hierarchical continuous-time velocity model. Ecology Letters, 25(12), pp. 2726-2738. (doi: 10.1111/ele.14117) (PMID:36256526)

Kavwele, C. M., Torney, C. J. , Morrison, T. A. , Fulford, S., Masolele, M. M., Masoy, J. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2022) Non‐local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 3(3), e12159. (doi: 10.1002/2688-8319.12159)

Campioni, N., Husmeier, D. , Morales, J. , Gaskell, J. and Torney, C. J. (2021) Inferring microscale properties of interacting systems from macroscale observations. Physical Review Research, 3(4), 043074. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043074)

Torney, C. J. , Morales, J. M. and Husmeier, D. (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. Movement Ecology, 9, 6. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-021-00242-0) (PMID:33602302)

Evans, J. C., Torney, C. J. , Votier, S. C. and Dall, S. R. X. (2019) Social information use and collective foraging in a pursuit diving seabird. PLoS ONE, 14(9), e0222600. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222600) (PMID:31545848) (PMCID:PMC6756525)

Torney, C. J. , Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Chevallier, M., Moyer, D. C., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Kohi, E. M. and Hopcraft, J.G.C. (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(6), pp. 779-787. (doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.13165)

Torney, C. J. , Hopcraft, J. G. C. , Morrison, T. A. , Couzin, I. D. and Levin, S. A. (2018) From single steps to mass migration: the problem of scale in the movement ecology of the Serengeti wildebeest. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170012. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0012) (PMID:29581397) (PMCID:PMC5882982)

Torney, C. J. , Lamont, M., Debell, L., Angohiatok, R. J., Leclerc, L.-M. and Berdahl, A. M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170385. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0385) (PMID:29581404)

Westley, P. A.H., Berdahl, A. M., Torney, C. J. and Biro, D. (2018) Collective movement in ecology: from emerging technologies to conservation and management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170004. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2017.0004) (PMID:29581389)

Faust, C. L. , McCallum, H. I., Bloomfield, L. S.P., Gottdenker, N. L., Gillespie, T. R., Torney, C. J. , Dobson, A. P. and Plowright, R. K. (2018) Pathogen spillover during land conversion. Ecology Letters, 21(4), pp. 471-483. (doi: 10.1111/ele.12904) (PMID:29466832)

Ioannou, C. C., Ramnarine, I. W. and Torney, C. (2017) High-predation habitats affect the social dynamics of collective exploration in a shoaling fish. Science Advances, 3(5), e1602682. (doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1602682)

Valletta, J. J., Torney, C. , Kings, M., Thornton, A. and Madden, J. (2017) Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies. Animal Behaviour, 124, pp. 203-220. (doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005)

Berdahl, A., van Leeuwen, A., Levin, S. A. and Torney, C. J. (2016) Collective behavior as a driver of critical transitions in migratory populations. Movement Ecology, 4(1), 18. (doi: 10.1186/s40462-016-0083-8) (PMID:27429757) (PMCID:PMC4946155)

Torney, C. J. , Dobson, A. P., Borner, F., Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Moyer, D., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Fredrick, H., Borner, M. and Hopcraft, J. G. C. (2016) Assessing rotation-invariant feature classification for automated wildebeest population counts. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0156342. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156342) (PMID:27227888) (PMCID:PMC4881999)

Hein, A. M., Rosenthal, S. B., Hagstrom, G. I., Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. and Couzin, I. D. (2015) The evolution of distributed sensing and collective computation in animal populations. eLife, 4, e10955. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.10955) (PMID:26652003) (PMCID:PMC4755780)

Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. , Schertzer, E. and Levin, S. A. (2015) On the evolutionary interplay between dispersal and local adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Evolution, 69(6), pp. 1390-1405. (doi: 10.1111/evo.12664)

Torney, C. J. , Lorenzi, T., Couzin, I. D. and Levin, S. A. (2015) Social information use and the evolution of unresponsiveness in collective systems. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface, 12(103), (doi: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0893) (PMID:25519991) (PMCID:PMC4305405)

Kao, A. B., Miller, N., Torney, C. , Hartnett, A. and Couzin, I. D. (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(8), e1003762. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003762) (PMID:25101642) (PMCID:PMC4125046)

Strandburg-Peshkin, A. et al. (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology, 23(17), R709-R711. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.07.059) (PMID:24028946) (PMCID:PMC4780851)

Coburn, L., Cerone, L., Torney, C. , Couzin, I. D. and Neufeld, Z. (2013) Tactile interactions lead to coherent motion and enhanced chemotaxis of migrating cells. Physical Biology, 10(4), 046002. (doi: 10.1088/1478-3975/10/4/046002) (PMID:23752100)

Torney, C. J. , Levin, S. A. and Couzin, I. D. (2013) Decision accuracy and the role of spatial interaction in opinion dynamics. Journal of Statistical Physics, 151(1-2), pp. 203-217. (doi: 10.1007/s10955-013-0700-5)

Berdahl, A., Torney, C. J. , Ioannou, C. C., Faria, J. J. and Couzin, I. D. (2013) Emergent sensing of complex environments by mobile animal groups. Science, 339(6119), pp. 574-576. (doi: 10.1126/science.1225883) (PMID:23372013)

Couzin, I. D., Ioannou, C. C., Demirel, G., Gross, T., Torney, C. J. , Hartnett, A., Conradt, L., Levin, S. A. and Leonard, N. E. (2011) Uninformed individuals promote democratic consensus in animal groups. Science, 334(6062), pp. 1578-1580. (doi: 10.1126/science.1210280) (PMID:22174256)

Torney, C. J. , Berdahl, A. and Couzin, I. D. (2011) Signalling and the evolution of cooperative foraging in dynamic environments. PLoS Computational Biology, 7(9), e1002194. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002194) (PMID:21966265) (PMCID:PMC3178622)

Book Sections

Campioni, N., Husmeier, D. , Morales, J. M. , Gaskell, J. and Torney, C. J. (2020) Modelling multiscale collective behavior with Gaussian processes. In: Ladde, G. and Samia, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 124. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.124)

Gaskell, J. , Campioni, N., Morales, J. M. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. J. (2020) Approximate Bayesian inference for individual-based models with emergent dynamics. In: Ladde, G. and Samia, N. (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA'20). Avestia Publishing: Ottawa, Canada, p. 125. ISBN 9781927877685 (doi: 10.11159/icsta20.125)

Conference Proceedings

Paun, I. , Husmeier, D. and Torney, C. (2019) A Study on Discrete-Time Movement Models. In: International Conference on Statistics: Theory and Applications (ICSTA’19), Lisbon, Portugal, 13-14 Aug 2019, p. 27. ISBN 9781927877647 (doi: 10.11159/icsta19.27)

This list was generated on Wed Nov 20 16:50:05 2024 GMT.

Supervision

  • Antunes Costa De Andrade, Renato
    Heterogeneity in Population Dynamics: Impacts of Spatial Heterogeneity and Senescence on Species Movement and Abundances
  • Duffield, Christine
    The Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
  • Lindeman, Mathilde
    The Leverhulme Programme for Doctoral Training in Ecological Data Science
  • Masolele, Majaliwa
    MODELLING THE EFFECTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE ON THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS
  • Tiddy, Isabelle
    The effects of climate-related stressors on fish social behaviour

Research datasets

Jump to: 2022 | 2021 | 2019 | 2018
Number of items: 4.

2022

Kavwele, C. M., Torney, C. , Morrison, T. , Fulford, S., Masolele, M., Masoy, J. and Hopcraft, G. (2022) Non-local effects of human activity on the spatial distribution of migratory wildlife in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. [Data Collection]

2021

Torney, C. , Morales, J. and Husmeier, D. (2021) A hierarchical machine learning framework for the analysis of large scale animal movement data. [Data Collection]

2019

Torney, C., Lloyd-Jones, D. J., Chevallier, M., Moyer, D. C., Maliti, H. T., Mwita, M., Kohi, E. M. and Hopcraft, G. (2019) A comparison of deep learning and citizen science techniques for counting wildlife in aerial survey images. [Data Collection]

2018

Torney, C., Lamont, M., Debell, L., Angohiatok, R. J., Leclerc, L.-M. and Berdahl, A. M. (2018) Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Thu Nov 21 05:23:47 2024 GMT.