Category: News

Congratulations to our labmates, Lucia Carrero and MaTais Caldwell!   Lucia and MaTais recently presented on their summer REU work — both did a great job!  

Dr. Jose F. Ruiz-Munoz of @Gator_Sense Lab will start a new position as an Assistant Professor at the National University of Colombia. He will join the computer programming and data analysis faculty team of the statistics program at La Paz campus. Congratulations, Jose! He is broadly interested in data analysis, signal processing, and machine learning applications. […]

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators: V. R. Merenda, Jose Ruiz-Munoz, Alina Zare,  R. C. Chebel!  Their paper, “Predictive models to identify Holstein cows at risk of metritis and clinical cure and reproductive/productive failure following antimicrobial treatment”, was recently accepted to Preventive Veterinary Medicine.  In the paper, the authors investigated whether the use of behavioral […]

Abstract: Precision dairy farming, specifically the design of management strategies according to the animal’s needs, may soon become the norm since automated technologies that generate large amounts of data for each individual are becoming more affordable. Our objectives were to determine whether the use of behavioral changes could improve the accuracy of prediction of the […]

Abstract: We present a histogram layer for artificial neural networks (ANNs). An essential aspect of texture analysis is the extraction of features that describe the distribution of values in local spatial regions. The proposed histogram layer directly computes the spatial distribution of features for texture analysis and parameters for the layer are estimated during backpropagation. […]

Congratulations to our labmate, Xiaolei Guo, for passing her Oral Qualifying Exam and becoming a PhD candidate!  For the remainder of her PhD work, Xiaolei plans to investigate fundamental research questions on “Interactive Segmentation with Deep Metric Learning”. We are excited to see what comes from her work! Great job, Xiaolei!

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators: Ben Weinstein, Sarah Graves, Sergio Marconi, Aditya Singh, Alina Zare, Dylan Stewart, Stephanie Bohlman and Ethan P. White!  Their paper, “A benchmark dataset for individual tree crown delineation in co-registered airborne RGB, LiDAR and hyperspectral imagery from the National Ecological Observation Network”, was recently accepted to PLOS Computational Biology.  […]

Abstract: Supervised methods for object delineation in remote sensing require labeled ground-truth data. Gathering sufficient high quality ground-truth data is difficult, especially when targets are of irregular shape or difficult to distinguish from background or neighboring objects. Tree crown delineation provides key information from remote sensing images for forestry, ecology, and management. However, tree crowns […]

Congratulations to UF’s graduating class of Spring 2021!  The MLSL would like to recognize our very own undergraduate researcher, Chandler Trousdale!  After graduation, Chandler will be entering the workforce as a software engineer at OMP. Chandler is going to do great things and we are excited to follow his achievements in industry.  Later, Gator!

Congratulations to UF’s graduating class of Spring 2021!  The MLSL would like to recognize our very own undergraduate researcher, Anna Hampton!  Anna will be helping out in the lab this summer while she decides on her next steps. Anna is going to do great things and we are excited to follow her achievements.  Later, Gator!