Image Analysis for Agricultural Processes and Products Working Group

INTRODUCTION

Established in 2008 by joining researchers from different institutions, countries and continents with the aim of enhancing CIGR actions for the collaboration between institutions, enterprises and individuals in the field of computer vision and image analysis in agriculture. The WG is open to all researches interested in optical systems for agricultural products and processes. This technology has grown considerably in recent years due to the increase of their technological capacity and lower prices of equipment.

These systems allow the automation of tasks and analysis in regions of the electromagnetic spectrum that are invisible to the human eye, are capable of monitoring from far distances, can penetrate into the tissues and allow inspecting products at a high speed that would otherwise not be possible. There is a need to develop new methods, systems and algorithms capable of deal with the large amount of information provided by these systems, and to create innovative developments that can be transferred to the industry.

Chair: Dr. Jose Blasco-Ivars

Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias (IVIA), CV-315, km 10,7 – 46113 Moncada, Valencia, Spain

ES Spain

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E-mail: jblasco.ivia@gmail.com
Vice Chair: Prof. Thomas Banhazi

University of Southern Queensland. School of Civil Engineering and Surveying. Toowoomba Campus. West St, Darling... read-more

AU Australia

TEL: +61 7 4631 1191; +61 8 8303 7781

E-mail: Thomas.Banhazi@usq.edu.au; banhazi.thomas@saugov.sa.gov.au
Vice Chair: Dr. Bosoon Park

USDA, U.S. National Poultry Research Center, 950 College Station Road, Athens, GA 30605, USA read-more

US United States

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E-mail: bosoon.park@usda.gov

Mission

  • To advance on new image processing technologies for the inspection of the quality and safety of agricultural products.
  • To enhance the scientific knowledge and contribute to technological advances for field monitoring using remote sensing technologies.
  • To facilitate the introduction of new technologies and applications based on computer vision in the agricultural processes, from the field to the table.

Objectives

  • To meet recent demands on process monitoring in agricultural production, during storage and processing of raw material
  • To develop objective, sensitive, and reliable optical tools for receiving analytical data in a non-destructive way
  • Applications of machine vision and image processing in the agricultural and food industry

Scope

Monitoring

  • Gathering recognition parameters for image processing in on-site monitoring of plants and animals
  • Interdisciplinary exchange and development of advanced image processing methods in different applications
  • Exchange between science and industry for bringing new optical compounds in the focus of scientific working groups supporting new applications
  • Technologies: Fluorescence, near infrared, colour, real-time, multispectral, hyperspectral and thermal imaging, satellite imaging X-Rays, magnetic resonance imaging, microscopic imaging

Process management

  • Terrestrial and aerial mapping of natural resources
  • Non-destructive, on-site inspection of product properties and quality control
  • Crop monitoring, precision agriculture, precision horticulture and automatic guidance
  • Robotics or any other process automation
  • Changes of recognized parameters in on-site monitoring as a function of time
  • Livestock farming (both on and off farm applications)
  • Classification in processing lines based on external and internal quality
  • Real-time automatic inspection of fresh and processed agricultural products
  • Image processing with respect to geometric and structure analyses
  • Development of phantoms (gold standards)

Activities

  • Organization and contribution with events together with CIGR Sections and other organizations
  • Organise and operate groups of discussion
  • Capture the state-of-the-art of image analyses applications in agronomy
  • Enhancement of the collaboration of industry and scientists
  • Publication of recent trends and future needs of industry on Image Processing in Agriculture under the guidelines of the CIGR
  • Promote research partnership

Publication of a Special Issue. Selected papers from the IV International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture. Aleixos N, Blasco J, Molto E (Eds) (2014) Biosystems Engineering. Special Issue on Image Analysis in Agriculture. Volume 117.

Events organized by the working group

Title Date Event type Location Country
VII CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture. Special Parallel Conference of CIGR World Congress 2018 Sun, 22/04/2018 to Wed, 25/04/2018 Workshop Antalya TR Turkey
VI CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture. Special Parallel Conference of Joint CIGR-AgEng 2016 Sun, 26/06/2016 to Wed, 29/06/2016 Workshop Aarhus DK Denmark
V CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture. Special Event under Annual ASABE Meeting. Sat, 12/07/2014 to Sun, 13/07/2014 Workshop Montreal CA Canada
IV CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture. Special Parallel Conference of Joint CIGR-AgEng 2012 Sun, 08/07/2012 to Thu, 12/07/2012 Workshop Valencia ES Spain
III CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture Fri, 08/07/2011 to Tue, 12/07/2011 Workshop Adelaida AU Australia
II CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture Thu, 26/08/2010 to Fri, 27/08/2010 Workshop Budapest HU Hungary
I CIGR International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis and Spectroscopy in Agriculture Thu, 27/08/2009 to Fri, 28/08/2009 Workshop Potsdam DE Germany