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Abstract: Fresh fruit and vegetables are invaluable for human health; however, their quality often deteriorates before reaching consumers due to ongoing biochemical processes and compositional changes. We currently lack any objective indices which indicate the freshness of fruit or vegetables resulting in limited capacity to improve product quality eventually leading to food loss and waste. […]

Another semester is wrapping up here at UF!   While we are excited for a break, we are also taking some time to reflect an a very… well, different… semester.  During this crazy and unprecedented time, we are so proud of all our graduates, undergraduates, faculty, staff and administration for teaming up and making the semester […]

Congratulations to our labmate, Sarah Walker, for accepting an internship at Ultimate Software! Sarah will be working on the data science team to develop natural language processing tools for human sentiment analysis. Great job, Sarah!

Abstract: Broad scale remote sensing promises to build forest inventories at unprecedented scales. A crucial step in this process is designing individual tree segmentation algorithms to associate pixels into delineated tree crowns. While dozens of tree delineation algorithms have been proposed, their performance is typically not compared based on standard data or evaluation metrics, making […]

  Dylan Stewart recently presented as a guest speaker for Stevenson Elementary School’s “Engineering Week”.  During his presentation, Dylan showed a class of Russellville, KY first graders how he flies drones to “help farmers find healthy and dead plants”.  Additionally, Dylan fielded a variety of questions about a “day in the life” of a PhD […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Nicholas Signori!  Nicholas is majoring in Computer Engineering at the University of Florida and will be investigating the null space of artificial neural networks for sonar image analysis. Welcome to our lab, Nicholas!

  Dr. Alina Zare recently presented in the University of Florida Informatics Institute’s virtual seminar on AI Advances and Applications. During her talk, Alina discussed how the Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is using AI methods to advance the understanding of plant root systems.   Check out our Publications page for more info on the exciting […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome our newest lab member, Zoe Frongillo!  Zoe is a fourth year Computer Engineering major at the University of Florida and will be working on our project for the National Science Foundation. Welcome to our lab, Zoe!

Abstract: In this work, we developed a simple and easily reproducible method to measure the interconnectivity of fission gas pore phases in irradiated nuclear fuels. The formation, growth and interconnection of fission gas pores contribute to the release of fission gases from the fuel meat to the fuel cladding resulting in swelling, delamination, pillowing and […]

Congratulations to our labmates and collaborators: Charlyne A. Smith, Yiming Cui, Brandon D. Miler, Dennis D. Keiser, Alina Zare and Assel Aitkaliyeva!  Their paper, “New approach for measuring interconnectivity of fission gas pores in nuclear fuels from 2D micrographs” was recently accepted to the Journal of Materials Science.   In their paper, the authors introduce a […]