Publications

Detection, communication, and individual identification with deep audio embeddings: A case study with North Atlantic right whales

Tolkova I, Klinck H, Cusano DA, Kügler A, Parks SE

PLOS Computational Biology, 22(6), e1013321

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Traditional bioacoustic analyses and machine-learning methods indicate weak vocal dimorphism in four Cerrado antbird species

Breviglieri EL, Sugai LSM, Sementili-Cardoso G, Donatelli RJ, Tolkova I

Journal of Ornithology

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Acoustic abundance estimation for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, USA

Garcia ML*, Tolkova I*, Madhusudhana S, Rahaman A, Baker SC, Mayo CA, Hudak CA, Klinck H

Endangered Species Research, 56, 101–115

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Image cognition using contour curvature statistics

Marantan A*, Tolkova I*, Mahadevan L

Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 479(2274), 20220662

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A continuous statistical-geometric framework for normative and impaired gaits

Swaminathan K*, Tolkova I*, Baker L, Revi DA, Awad L, Walsh C, Mahadevan L

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

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Source separation with an acoustic vector sensor for terrestrial bioacoustics

Tolkova I, Klinck H

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(2), 1123–1134

DOI

The ecology and evolution of human-wildlife cooperation

Cram DL, van der Wal J, Uomini N, …, Tolkova I, …, Spottiswoode CN (42 authors)

People and Nature

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Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation

van der Wal J, Spottiswoode C, Uomini N, …, Tolkova I, …, Cram DL (43 authors)

Conservation Letters

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Screening of Parkinson’s disease using geometric features extracted from spiral drawings

Chandra J*, Muthupalaniappan S*, Shang Z*, Deng R*, Lin R, Tolkova I, Butts D, Sul D, Marzouk S, Bose S, Chen A

Brain Sciences

Article

Spatial, interannual, and generational sources of trait variability in a marine population

Ciannelli L, Tolkova I, Lauth R, Puerta P, Helser T, Gitelman A, Thompson G

Ecology

DOI

Classification of animal movement behavior through residence in space and time

Torres LG, Orben RA, Tolkova I, Thompson DR

PLOS ONE

DOI

Agentic discovery of multi-channel bioacoustic association algorithms

Mohapatra P, Tolkova I, Sarkar A, Sehgal A, Salisbury DP, Von Duyke AL, Bouffaut L, Klinck H, Sun JJ

Foundation Models for Science Workshop, ICLR 2026

Workshop page

Fighting poaching through targeted deep learning and sensor integration

Dhar N, Tolkova I

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on AI for Non-Human Animal Communication

Workshop page

Parsing birdsong with deep audio embeddings

Tolkova I*, Chu B*, Hedman M*, Kahl S, Klinck H

AI for Social Good Workshop, IJCAI 2021

arXiv

Feature representations for conservation bioacoustics: Review and discussion

Tolkova I

AI for Social Good Workshop, IJCAI 2021

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Acoustic source separation, contour classification, and trajectory optimization

Tolkova I

Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University

Passive acoustic monitoring in the Mariana Islands: Density estimation of beaked whales along the west coast of Guam

Klinck H, Yack T, Tolkova I, Salisbury DP, Harris D

Final report prepared for Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet

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Integrating standard identity metrics and machine learning methods to assess acoustic identity encoding in humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Smith MA, Cusano DA, Hood D, Robbins J, Tolkova I, Weinrich MT, Wiley DN, Parks SE

The cockatiel party problem: Source separation in a dawn chorus

Tolkova I, Klinck H

Acoustic analysis of the 2025 abundance survey of the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort bowhead whale population near Point Barrow, Alaska

Bouffaut L, Tolkova I, Pepper BE, Salisbury D, Rahaman A, Ponirakis D, Furtado HSC, Eagen S, Von Duyke AL, Givens GH, Citta JJ, Klinck H

Diel niche partitioning in passive acoustic monitoring of beaked whales offshore Guam

Tolkova I, Harris D, Yack T, Salisbury DP, Klinck H

What do BirdNET embeddings capture: The singer, the song, or the setting?

Akashram, Tolkova I