October 2024. Johnanna Elsensohn led a study concerning an invasive insect, spotted laternfly, and its ability to spread through a landscape by hitchiking on vehicles. It was published by Royal Society Open Science back in July 2024, open access here.
May 2024. I gave a talk on multi-camera calibration method CALICO as part of the ICRA 2024 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomy.
April 2024. We refreshed the multi-camera calibration method CALICO and it is now on arXiv, with matching code on GitHub, and data on Zenodo.
March 2024. The Image Matching Challenge 2024 - Hexathlon is live on Kaggle! I contributed image data from our research orchard for the challenge. Entry deadline is May 28, 2024 and total prize monies available are $50,000. Good luck! The challenge is a companion to the CVPR 2024 workshop, Image Matching: Local Features & Beyond.
February 2024. A paper with collaborator Rachel Naegele and others on table grapes was published by the Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science, and our paper was featured on the cover (JASHS).
January 2024. I moved Mastodon servers! Now at @[email protected]
or link.
April 2023. Abubakar Siddique, co-author, received his Ph.D. in ECE from Marquette University!
December 2022. Social media – you’re more likely to find me on Mastodon than Twitter these days. @[email protected]
or link.
Fall 2022. Two papers on totally different subjects were published. One with my entomology collaborators, on computing insect size from images (Florida Entomologist) and the second, first-authored by PhD student Abubakar Siddique, is on panoptic segmentation of fruit tree flowers (IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters).
July 2022. Our protocol, CASS, was published as a protocol in High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping, arXiv link.
Summer 2022. I will not be attending any conference or event which requires me to travel by air for quite some time.
November 2021. I’m giving a talk in the Tartan SLAM series.
October 2021. I’m giving a talk at the P\(^2\)IRC 2021 Symposium on Thursday, October 21.
October 2021. Mitchell Feldmann and I have a preprint up describing a system for fruit reconstruction for phenotyping, bioRxiv.
May 2021. I’m a co-organizer of the 7th Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture workshop, which will be at (virtual) ICCV 2021. Follow our Twitter account to get updates about the workshop or contact via email from the website.
March 2021. I’m giving a keynote talk at 1st International drone week: Precision Agriculture, Forestry, and the Environment, IEEE RAS student branch of Instituto Tecnológico de Morelia.
March 2021. I’m giving a keynote talk at PhenomUK’s 3rd Annual meeting.
February 2021. I’m a co-organizer for the ICLR Rethinking ML papers workshop. Submit (due March 9) or attend.
November 2020. I’ll be an associate editor for ICRA 2021.
October 2020. Philipe A. Dias, frequent collaborator and co-author, received his Ph.D. in EECE from Marquette University!
October 2020. The blog posts I wrote with Dmytro Mishkin (1 and 2) morphed into a paper with Jiří Matas: preprint.
September 2020. Mitchell Feldmann, frequent collaborator and co-author, received his Ph.D. in Plant Sciences from University of California-Davis!
August 2020. A collaboration with entomologists was published in Environmental Entomology.
July 2020. I gave an invited (virtual) talk at EECVC (Eastern European Computer Vision Confernce). Online now.
July 2020. A collaboration with NIH is available as a TPAMI preprint.
April 2020. Congratulations to Mitchell Feldmann, for his first-authored journal paper in GigaScience!
March 2020. I’m an organizer for the virtual RSS 2020 workshop, Robots in the Wild: Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration.
February 2020. I gave a talk at the International Fruit Tree Association 2020 Annual Meeting.
January 2020. I gave two invited talks at the Plant and Animal Genome 2020 conference.
November 2019. I was elevated to Senior Member grade within the IEEE organization.
November 2019. Our preprint, data, and code for CALICO: Calibration of Asynchronous Camera Networks was released.
September 2019. I gave a talk at E&J Gallo in Modesto, California, and learned a lot about winegrape production.
August 2019. I’ll be guest editing a special issue: “Robotics Perception in Adversarial Environments” in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. flyer
May 2019. I joined the Technical Committee for the Robotics: Science and Systems 2019 conference workshop Robots in the Wild: Challenges in Deploying Robust Autonomy for Robotic Exploration. The website now includes all of the papers from the workshop.
April 2019. Our abstract for CVPPP at CVPR was accepted. Pdf from IPPN.
February 2019. The paper where I simulated ship movement for insects with a robot has been published – my first paper in an Entomology journal, part of Laura Nixon’s PhD research.
February 2019. I will give an invited talk at Phenome 2019, on Thursday February 7.
January 2019. I was elected to the Executive Board of the North American Plant Phenotyping Network (NAPPN), for 2020-2022.
January 2019. Our paper was accepted to ICRA 2019!
January 2019. Philipe Dias’ work on a publicly-available tool for annotating image datasets was presented at WACV 2019. Both he, and co-author Zhou Shen are from frequent collaborator Henry Medeiros’ lab, COVISS. Check out the paper and code here.
November 2018. I presented a webinar for the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), on camera calibration for plant biologists. The webinar and other resources are here.
September 2018. I started a co-chair role (with four other co-chairs) of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Agricultural Robotics and Automation. We now have a Twitter account (@AgRoboticsTC), which I manage. Want to know more about the TC or join? Let me know!
September 2018. I am an associate editor for ICRA 2019.
September 2018. I gave talks at the University of Minnesota (Computer Science and Engineering) and Michigan State University (Horticulture).
July 2018. I joined the program committee of the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.
June 2018. PhD student Philipe Dias’ work on fruit tree flower detection was accepted in a special issue of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, with an IROS 2018 presentation in Madrid upcoming. Philipe is in Henry’s Medeiros’ lab, COVISS. Paper and dataset here.
May 2018. I was interviewed by the Peggy Smedley show concerning automation in specialty crops, listen here.
May 2018. I gave an invited talk at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center.
May 2018. Our paper with former office neighbor Courtney Hollender, lab colleague Chris Dardick, and others on the TAC gene, was published in Horticulture Research. Paper here.
April 2018. Our PNAS paper with former office neighbor Courtney Hollender, lab colleague Chris Dardick, and others on WEEP is out! Paper here.
March 2018. Two papers presented at IEEE WACV 2018 – one on curve skeletonization and one on root segmentation of Xray CT.
February 2018. I joined the program committee of Phenome 2019. Upcoming Phenome 2019.
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