no code implementations • 21 Jul 2023 • Eric Schneider, Sushanth Jayanth, Abhisesh Silwal, George Kantor
Robotic pruning of dormant grapevines is an area of active research in order to promote vine balance and grape quality, but so far robotic efforts have largely focused on planar, simplified vines not representative of commercial vineyards.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2022 • Harry Freeman, Mohamad Qadri, Abhisesh Silwal, Paul O'Connor, Zachary Rubinstein, Daniel Cooley, George Kantor
We provide quantitative results on data collected in an apple orchard, and demonstrate that our system is able to predict abscise rates within 3. 5% of the current method with a 6 times improvement in speed, while requiring significantly less manual effort.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2021 • Abhisesh Silwal, Tanvir Parhar, Francisco Yandun, George Kantor
While transfer learning and data augmentation to some extent reduce the need for large amount of data to train deep neural networks, the large variety of cultivars and the lack of shared datasets in agriculture makes wide-scale field deployments difficult.