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Congratulations to our labmates Dylan Stewart and Connor McCurley for being awarded the Wilson and Marie Collins Endowment for Graduate Fellowship!

Congratulations to our labmate Guahao Yu for successfully defending his research proposal!  Defending an oral research proposal is the second of four milestones to completing a Ph.D. at the University of Florida.  Guohao is planning to advance image segmentation techniques using artificial neural networks trained with weak annotations.   We are excited to see where your […]

Yesterday, Dr. Alina Zare presented at the University of Florida Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department’s weekly seminar.  In her talk, titled “Plant Root Analysis with Multiple Instance Learning”, Alina stressed the importance of root analysis for understanding drought resistance, crop yield, greenhouse gas mitigation and more.  She also showed how the Machine Learning and […]

The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab is excited to welcome Trung Tran as a new Master’s student! Trung previously completed a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In our lab, Trung will be working on machine learning techniques for synthetic aperture sonar analysis. Welcome to the lab, Trung!

Congratulations to Gatorsense alumna, Xiaoxiao Du!  Her paper, titled “Multiple Instance Choquet Integral with Binary Fuzzy Measures for Remote Sensing Classifier Fusion with Imprecise Labels”, was recently accepted for publication with The 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE SSCI 2019).  Xiaoxiao will present her work at the conference in Xiamen, China later this […]

Commitment to a Safe and Inclusive Learning Environment The Machine Learning and Sensing Lab and Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering values broad diversity within our community and is committed to individual and group empowerment, inclusion, and the elimination of discrimination. It is expected that every person in this lab will treat one another with dignity […]

Classes begin this week in the Swamp and all of us in the Gator Sense lab could not be more excited! Fall in Gainesville means football (go Gators!), the end to a rainy, rainy summer, and most importantly, new research opportunities! We are excited to see our friends and collaborators in other labs, welcome back […]

Our labmate and postdoctoral researcher Rene Heim was recently published in Tropical Plant Pathology.  His paper, titled “Breaking down barriers between remote sensing and plant pathology”,  elucidates current hindrances present in interdisciplinary science.  Rene and co-authors specifically address obstacles between remote sensing and plant pathology and provide potential solutions.   Check it out here: “Breaking down […]

Abstract: A critical component for enhancing productivity and quality of food and fiber is the ability to quickly detect and monitor plant diseases in order to prevent or minimize losses to agricultural and forest products (Mahlein 2016). The earlier (prior to or at first symptoms) the diseases can be detected, the lower the risk of control […]

Our labmate and postdoctoral researcher Susan Meerdink recently published three papers in Remote Sensing of Environment. These publications feature a publicly available spectral library, thermal research using an airborne spectrometer, and temporal classification of plant species. Check them out here: “The ECOSTRESS spectral library version 1.0” “Plant species’ spectral emissivity and temperature using the hyperspectral thermal […]