Image Analysis and Machine Learning for Cyber-Agricultural Systems

Scope

Today, efficient and cost-effective sensors, as well as high-performance computing technologies, are looking to transform traditional plant-based agriculture into an efficient cyber-physical system. The easy availability of cheap, deployable, connected sensor technology has created an enormous opportunity to collect a vast amount of data at varying spatial and temporal scales at both experimental and production agriculture levels. Therefore, both offline and real-time agricultural analytics that assimilate such heterogeneous data and provide automated, actionable information is critically needed for sustainable and profitable agriculture. The application of advanced image processing and machine learning methods to this critical societal need can be viewed as a transformative extension for the agriculture community. These papers present image analysis and machine learning algorithms, experimental technologies, software, pipelines, and new results for Cyber-Agricultural applications.

Guest Editors

Wei Guo, University of Tokyo
Soumik Sarkar, Iowa State University

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