Pruning is one of the most important tree fruit production activities, which is highly
dependent on human labor. Skilled labor is in short supply, and the increasing cost of labor …

This paper describes a robot system for the automatic pruning of grape vines. A mobile
platform straddles the row of vines, and it images them with trinocular stereo cameras as it …

Image and video tools for analyzing crop scenes and plants are essential for applying
precision agriculture to crop maintenance, harvesting, or pruning. In this paper, we are …

Global Megatrends tells a story about how the world will change over the next 20 years."
Megatrends" are gradual yet powerful trajectories of change that have the potential to throw …

Due to its perennial nature and size, the acquisition of phenotypic data in grapevine
research is almost exclusively restricted to the field and done by visual estimation. This kind …

In viticulture, there are several applications where bud detection in vineyard images is a
necessary task, susceptible of being automated through the use of computer vision methods …

Develo** computer vision systems for agricultural tasks that work in real-world conditions
and in real time is challenging, especially if they need to be deployed on embedded …

Grapevine pruning is conducted during winter, and it is a very important and expensive task
for wine producers managing their vineyard. During grapevine pruning every year, the past …

Labour shortage is a reality in agriculture. Farmers are asking for solutions to automate
agronomic tasks, such as monitoring, pruning, spraying, and harvesting. The automation of …

The AlphaGarden is an automated testbed for indoor polyculture farming which combines a
first-order plant simulator, a gantry robot, a seed planting algorithm, plant phenoty** and …