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Congratulations to UF’s graduating class of Spring 2021! The MLSL would like to recognize our very own undergraduate researcher, Hayden Menge!  It was a great pleasure having you in the Gatorsense lab. Some of Hayden’s milestones achievements in our lab was training UNet segmentation model on new plant root data. In addition to feature extraction […]

Abstract: Openly available community science digital vouchers provide a wealth of data to study phenotypic change across space and time. However, extracting phenotypic data from these resources requires significant human effort. Here, we demonstrate a workflow and computer vision model for automatically categorizing species color pattern from community science images. Our work is focused on […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Melissa Uriguen! Melissa is a fourth year environmental engineering student and will be assisting Professor Alina Zare on the AI-Harvest project. You can also connect with Melissa on LinkedIn. Welcome to our lab, Melissa!

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Rosario Firmino! Rosario is pursuing a Bachelors degree in Computer Science with Minor in Mathematics. He will be working on the AI Harvest project under Professor Alina Zare and Professor Lincoln Zotarelli. In his free time he enjoys playing tennis, making […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Collin Granko! Collin is a Third year Data Science major at UF. Outside of academics, He enjoys hiking and surfing. Welcome to our lab, Collin!

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Cameron Thomas! Cameron is a third year student studying electrical engineering at the UF department of electrical and computer engineering. She is part of the AI MESH team in our lab where she’s working on data entry and crop yield analysis. […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Ayesha Naikodi! Ayesha received a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering in 2019 and worked in the industry as an Embedded Software Engineer before deciding to get on the Machine Learning bandwagon. Ayesha is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Satya Krishna Pothapragada! Satya Krishna is pursuing his masters in ECE at UF and he’ll be working with Professor Alina Zare on an interdisciplinary project which stretches across Machine Learning and Agriculture. You can also connect with Satya Krishna on LinkedIn. […]

Abstract: Understanding a plant’s root system architecture (RSA) is crucial for a variety of plant science problem domains including sustainability and climate adaptation. Minirhizotron (MR) technology is a widely-used approach for phenotyping RSA non-destructively by capturing root imagery over time. Precisely segmenting roots from the soil in MR imagery is a critical step in studying […]

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators: Weihuang Xu, Guohao Yu, Yiming Cui, Romain Gloaguen, Alina Zare, Jason Bonnette, Joel Reyes-Cabrera, Ashish Rajurkar, Diane Rowland, Roser Matamala, Julie D. Jastrow, Thomas E. Juenger, Felix B. Fritschi! Their paper, “PRMI: A Dataset of Minirhizotron Images for Diverse Plant Root Study”, was recently accepted to AI for Agriculture […]