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AgriPotential – A Multi-Temporal Multispectral Dataset for Agricultural Potential Mapping in Southern France
🧑 Mohammad El Sakka, Caroline De Pourtales, Lotfi Chaari, Josiane Mothe Resources Description Published as part of AI4AGRI, the AgriPotential dataset provides an open-access benchmark for modeling and predicting agricultural potentials using remote sensing and machine learning. It integrates multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery across 2019 and expert-labeled ground truth from the BD Sol – GDPA…
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Newsletter N°13 – June 2025
Members highlight Andreea Nițu – Transilvania University of Brașov, Brașov (Romania) Andreea Nițu received her B.S. in Information Technology from Transilvania University of Brașov and her M.S. in “Optimal Dynamic Systems and Economic-Financial Models” (SDOMEF) from the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the National University of Science and Technology Politehnica of Bucharest. She is currently…
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O3T Key Challenge annual seminar 2025
📅 Thursday 3 July 2025
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Multi-year multi-crop correlation analysis in Brasov area
📅 May 2025 🧑 Ioana C. Plajer, Alexandra Băicoianu, Matei Debu, Maria Ștefan, Mihai Ivanovici, Corneliu Florea, Adrian Ghinea, Luciana Majercsik
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Newsletter N°12 – May 2025
Member highlight: Antonio Di Noia – Tor Vergata University, Roma (Italy) Antonio Di Noia received his M. S., cum laude, in Telecommunications engineering and his Ph. D. in Geoinformation from the Tor Vergata University of Rome in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He currently holds an assistant professor position at the same university, after holding post-doctoral…
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Spectral Image Data Fusion for Multisource Data Augmentation
📅 April 2025 🧑 Roberta Iuliana Luca | Alexandra Băicoianu | Ioana Cristina Plajer
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Newsletter N°11 – April 2025
Member highlight: Olivier Teste – IRIT / UT2J, Toulouse (France) Olivier Teste is a member of the Toulouse Institute of Computer Science (IRIT), CNRS Laboratory, and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Toulouse 2. His work primarily focuses on information systems, data management, and OLAP. He has published numerous scientific articles in these…
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AI4AGRI Summer School 2025: EO Big Data for Agriculture; Call for participation – extended
📅 Mon. 14 – Sat. 19 July 2025
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UNIVERSEH PhD Workshop on AI and Space (online)
📅 Tue. 3 – Wed. 4 June 2025
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UNIVERSEH PhD Workshop on AI and Space (online); Call for Contributions
📅 Tue. 3 – Wed. 4 June 2025
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UNIVERSEH Spring school 2025: Space is all around; An introduction to Space Sciences
📅 Mon. 21 – Sun. 27 April 2025
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Brașov AI4AGRI members visit Toulouse University
🧑 Mihai Ivanovici (UTBV); Josiane Mothe (UT); Andreea Nițu (UTBV); Matei Debu (UTBV) 📅 Mon. 17 – Fri. 21 March 2025 📍UT – Toulouse (France)
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TIRIS Summer School 2025: Space and Sustainability (Call for Participation)
📅 Mon. 30 June – Fri. 11 July 2025
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Peak IT 007: The technical conference in Brașov from the IT community to the IT community
📅 Thu. 3 – Fri. 4 July 2025
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Newsletter N°10 – March 2025
Member highlight: Luciana Majercsik – UNITBV, Brașov (Romania) Luciana Majercsik is a lecturer at Transilvania University of Brașov, within the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Department of Mathematics and Informatics. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and informatics from the University of Bucharest and obtained her PhD in Informatics in September 2024 from…
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DACIA5 – A Sentinel 2-based Multispectral Dataset for Agricultural Crop Identification Applications over Brasov area, Romania
As part of the AI4AGRI project, a new dataset is now available that combines Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery to support research in crop identification using machine learning and remote sensing. Covering the years 2020 to 2024 over an agricultural area north of Brașov, Romania, this dataset is structured to address two key tasks:…
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Invitation to Webinar on Hyperspectral Remote Sensing – 19 February 2025, online
📅 Wed. 19 February 2025
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Water Challenges in Occitania – Webinar Series
📅 Every Month until February
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Newsletter N°09 – Feb. 2025
Member highlight: Davide De Santis – Tor Vergata University, Roma (Italy) Davide De Santis received the Ph.D. in Computer Science, Control and Geoinformation and the M.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering (cum laude) from Tor Vergata University of Rome (TVU) in 2022 and 2017, respectively. He is currently a researcher at TVU affiliated to the Civil…
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A Review of CNN Applications in Smart Agriculture Using Multimodal Data
📅 January 2025 🧑 Mohammad El Sakka | Mihai Ivanovici | Loft Chaari | Josiane Mothe
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Newsletter N°08 – Jan. 2025
Member highlight Professor Josiane Mothe – INSPÉ Toulouse Occitanie-Pyrénées, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, UMR5505 CNRS, Univ. de Toulouse, France Josiane Mothe is a distinguished professor at the Institut National Supérieur du Professorat et de l’Éducation (INSPÉ) within the Université de Toulouse, France. She leads the Data Science department at the Institut de…
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muDACIA5: Sentinel-2 Brasov area 2020-2024 multi-spectral dataset for crop monitoring and identification
As part of the AI4AGRI project, a new dataset is now available for researchers focusing on crop identification using remote sensing and machine learning techniques. The dataset consists of Sentinel-2 MSI images acquired between 2020 and 2024 over an area north of Brașov, Romania. It is designed to support two specific tasks: The dataset includes:…
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Newsletter N°07 – Dec. 2024
The AI4AGRI newsletter relies on submissions from members of the project, please do not hesitate sharing AI4AGRI related news such as newly published papers, participation to conferences and events as well as information about related events and courses. Please send your submissions at the following address: serge.molina+ai4agri@irit.fr Member highlight: Alexandra BAICOIANU, Transilvania University of Brasov…
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Paper presentation: “Towards Geospatial Foundation Models via Continual Pretraining”
🧑 Hugo Carlesso (IRIT, FR) 📅 Thu. 28 Nov. 2024 📍Thesis room, IRIT – Toulouse (France)
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Creative Space Challenge 24
📅 Mon. 25 – Sun. 29 November 2024 📍University of Toulouse
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Good Practices Meeting in Toulouse
🧑 Lucie Loyon (UT2J); Rodica Florea (UTBV); Daniela Voinescu (UTBV) 📅 Thu. 31 October 2024 📍UT2J – Toulouse (France)
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Newsletter N°06 – Nov. 2024
The AI4AGRI newsletter relies on submissions from members of the project, please do not hesitate sharing AI4AGRI related news such as newly published papers, participation to conferences and events as well as information about related events and courses. Please send your submissions at the following address: serge.molina+ai4agri@irit.fr Highlight: Lorenzo Giuliano Papale, University of Rome Tor…
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AIDA: A European initiative aimed at promoting PhD-level AI education
The International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA) is a key initiative within the AI4Media project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. It aims to facilitate inter-university collaboration in AI education at the PhD level, providing a rich selection of AI courses led by lecturers from prominent institutions. By connecting universities and industry partners, AIDA…
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Newsletter N°05 – Oct. 2024
The AI4AGRI newsletter relies on submissions from members of the project, please do not hesitate sharing AI4AGRI related news such as newly published papers, participation to conferences and events as well as information about related events and courses. Please send your submissions at the following address: serge.molina+ai4agri@irit.fr Member Highlight: Nathalie Neptune, Teaching and Research Associate…
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Training material for wheat and lucerne detection in a PRISMA hyperspectral image
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_LmmqkwC-SPNALjUA7Wyx9XNi2XiY3v#scrollTo=yGjBSDSkECrl This was delivered at the International Summer School on Advanced Remote Sensing, 7 – 12 October 2024, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. https://fifim.ro/international-summer-school-on-advanced-remote-sensing There was a total of 41 participants.
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Training material for Hyperspectral Image Visualization
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1n_LmmqkwC-SPNALjUA7Wyx9XNi2XiY3v#scrollTo=yGjBSDSkECrl This was delivered at the International Summer School on Advanced Remote Sensing, 7 – 12 October 2024, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest. https://fifim.ro/international-summer-school-on-advanced-remote-sensing There was a total of 41 participants.
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Startech 4.0 Nawa Edition (on-site workshop)
📅 Mon 30 September – Fri 4 October 2024 📍AGH University of Krakow, Poland
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Presentation: Introduction to F.A.I.R. principles (French)
🧑 Pascal DAYRE 📅 Fri. 27 September 2024 📍IRIT – Toulouse (France)
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European Researchers’ Night (international event)
📅 Fri 27 September 2024
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Romanian AI Days
📅 Thu. 26 – Fri. 27 September 2024 📍Politehnica University of Bucharest (România)
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Presentation: Image analysis (features, segmentation) for applications in agriculture
🧑Serban Opriescu 📍Salle des thèses, IRIT – Toulouse (France) 📅Wed. 25 September 2024 – 11:00 (Fr time) | 12:00 (Ro time)
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University visit: Șerban OPRIȘESCU at Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier
🧑 Șerban OPRIȘESCU 📅 Tue. 24 – Sat. 28 September 2024 📍IRIT – Toulouse (France)
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Pape Ibrahima THIAM: a new PhD student joins the AI4AGRI project!
🧑 Pape Ibrahima THIAM 📍IRIT – Toulouse (France) / INRAE Montpeller (France)
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Introduction to Machine Learning for Earth Observation (Online course)
📍https://eo-college.org/courses/introduction-to-machine-learning-for-earth-observation/
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AI4AGRI Monthly meeting: September 2024
📅 Tue. 10 September – 14:00 (Fr time) | 15:00 (Ro time) 📍Online (Zoom)
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Artificial Intelligence to Advance Earth Observation: A review of models, recent trends, and pathways forward
📅 September 2024 🧑 Devis Tuia, Konrad Schindler, Begüm Demir, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Mrinalini Kochupillai, Sašo Džeroski, Jan N. van Rijn, Holger H. Hoos, Fabio Del Frate, Mihai Datcu, Volker Markl, Bertrand Le Saux, Rochelle Schneider, Gustau Camps-Valls
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World Space Week 2024 (international event)
📅 Fri 4 October – Thu 10 October 2024 📍https://www.worldspaceweek.org/nations/
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Newsletter N°04 – Sept. 2024
Forenote: the AI4AGRI newsletter relies on submissions from members of the project, please do not hesitate sharing AI4AGRI related news such as newly published papers, participation to conferences and events as well as informations about related events and courses. Please send your submissions at the following address: serge.molina+ai4agri@irit.fr Member Highlight: Prof. Fabio Del Frate, Full…
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Training material for ESRs
https://ai4agri.unitbv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/AI4AGRI-Traning-material-for-ESRs.pdf
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Digital Transformation in Agriculture
📅 August 2024 🧑 M. Ivanovici, G. Olteanu, C. Florea, R. Coliban, M.Ștefan, K. Marandskiy
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Soil Roughness Estimation using Digital Images and Artificial Intelligence
http://ai4agri.unitbv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AI4AGRI-soil-roughness-estimation-slides.pdf
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AI4AGRI Summer School 2024 support material
https://ai4agri.unitbv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AI4AGRI_Summer_school_2024.pdf
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PhD defense: Advanced Methodologies for Atmospheric Remote Sensing using AI
Ilaria Petracca 📍Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Italy 📅Fri. 26 July. 2024 – 10h30 / 11h30 (Italy/Romania)
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PhD defense: Application of AI algorithms for satellite on-board image processing
🧑 Giorgia Guerrisi 📍Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Italy 📅Fri. 26 July. 2024 – 10h30 / 11h30 (Italy/Romania)
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Ilaria Petracca and Giorgia Guerrisi PhD defense: The two defended theses were a success!
🧑 Ilaria Petracca / Giorgia Guerrisi 📍Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Italy 📅Fri. 26 July. 2024 – 10h30 / 11h30 (Italy/Romania)
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Presentation: AI in Smart Agriculture
🧑Mohammad El Sakka 📍Salle des thèses, IRIT – Toulouse (France) 📅Wed. 3 July. 2024 – 2 pm (Fr time) | 3 pm (Ro time)
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Newsletter N°03 – July 2024
The July newsletter highlights events, research initiatives, and collaborations happening as part of the AI4AGRI project. Key upcoming events include a visit by Șerban Oprișescu, a lecturer from Transilvania University of Brașov, to Université Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier in September 2024, where he will deliver a talk on hyperspectral satellite imaging for agricultural applications. Additionally,…
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Soil roughness estimation dataset
https://ai4agri.unitbv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/AI4AGRI_soil_roughness_dataset_2024.zip
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DoCO 2024 presentation: Crop Identification Using Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 Data
🧑Kamal Marandinskiy 📍41A, Iuliu Maniu St., Brașov (Romania) 📅Wed. 26 June 2024 – 15:30 (Ro time) | 14:30 (Fr time)
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Newsletter N°02 – June 2024
In this issue, we highlight Mohammad El Sakka, a PhD student at IRIT, who is advancing satellite image analysis and crop classification using deep neural networks. We recap the AI4AGRI summer school in Brasov, Romania, which provided hands-on experience with AI and Earth observation technologies for sustainable agriculture. Upcoming events include an online presentation by…
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Images and CNN applications in smart agriculture
📅 May 2024 🧑 M. El Sakka, J. Mothe, M. Ivanovici #deep learning #multispectral images #vegetation index #agricultural datasets #smart farming #smart agriculture
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AI4AGRI Summer school 2024
📍Transilvania University of Brașov 📅 8 – 14 May 2024
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Newsletter N°01 – May 2024
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the AI4AGRI newsletter!We are thrilled to have you join us on this exciting journey as we explore the intersection of Earth observation, artificial intelligence and agriculture. Launched in October 2022, AI4Agri is dedicated to transforming the agricultural landscape through innovative AI solutions, enhancing productivity, sustainability, and resilience in the…
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Deep automatic soil roughness estimation from digital images
📅 March 2024 🧑 M Ivanovici, S Popa, K Marandskiy, C Florea #Soil roughness #convolutional neural networks #VGG-11 #ResNet-18
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Multisource Remote Sensing Data Visualization using Machine Learning
📅 March 2024 🧑 I. Cristina Plajer, A. Băicoianu, L. Majercsik, M. Ivanovici #Multisource multispectral (MS) and hyperspectral (HS) images #neural network #normalization #remote sensing #standardization #visualization
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Workshop: Anomaly and specificity in agricultural crops
📍 National Institute of Research – Development for Potato and Sugar Beet, Brasov, Romania 📅 22 February 2024
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SPOC Entrepreneurship
https://www.space-academy.it/course/startechprogram
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SPOC Soft Skills
https://www.space-academy.it/course/spocsoftskill
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SPOC Machine Learning for Earth Observation (ML4EO)
https://www.space-academy.it/course/machinelearningeo
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2nd workshop on soil roughness estimation using digital images and artificial intelligence
📍 IRIT, Toulouse, France 📅 19 December 2023
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La Nuit De L’info 2023
📍 France 📅 1-2 December 2023
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Workshop on soil roughness estimation using digital images and artificial intelligence
📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov 📅 24 November 2023
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World Space Week 2023
📅 4-10 October 2023 📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov
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Multispectral Fractal Image Analysis for Soil Roughness Estimation at Various Altitudes
📅 October 2023 🧑 K. Marandskiy, M. Ivanovici, S. Corcodel and S. Costache #Estimation #Soil #Gray-scale #Autonomous aerial vehicles #Fractals #Complexity theory #Remote sensing
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NDVI Computation from Hyperspectral Images
📅 October 2023 🧑 S. Oprisescu, R. M. Coliban, M. Ivanovici #Visualization #Image color analysis #Vegetation mapping #Crops Sensors #Task analysis #Hyperspectral imaging
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European Researchers Night
📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov 📅 29 September 2023
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AI-based Applications on Earth Observation Data for Agriculture
📅 March 2024 🧑 M Ivanovici, S Popa, K Marandskiy, C Florea #Soil roughness #convolutional neural networks #VGG-11 #ResNet-18
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Annotating Satellite Images of Forests with Keywords from a Specialized Corpus in the Context of Change Detection
📅 September 2023 🧑 N. Neptune and J. Mothe
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Smart Weed Control: Real-Time Inference and On-board Data Processing using Edge-AI
📅 July 2023 🧑 S. T. Sasidharan, D. Latini, M. Ivanovici, G. Schiavon, K. Thangavel, F. Del Frate
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Exponential Features in the Fourier Domain for PRISMA Hyperspectral Image Segmentation
📅 July 2023 🧑 M. Ivanovici, S. Oprisescu, R.M. Coliban, K. Marandskiy #Reflectivity #Earth #Image segmentation #Image resolution #Forestry #Feature extraction #Surface fitting
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Exponential Feature Extraction and Learning for Pixel-Wise Hyperspectral Image Compression
📅 July 2023 🧑 M. Ivanovici, K. Marandskiy #Image coding #Image color analysis #Measurement uncertainty #Data visualization #Machine learning #Feature extraction #Molecular biology
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Convolutional neural network hardware implementation for soil roughness estimation
📅 July 2023 🧑 S. Popa, K. Marandskiy, G. Feldioreanu, M. Ivanovici #VGG #convolutional neural network #soil roughness estimation
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Soil Roughness Estimation Using Fractal Analysis on Digital Images of Soil Surface
📅 July 2023 🧑 I. C. Plajer, A. Băicoianu, L. Majercsik and M. Ivanovici #Correlation #Soil measurements #Digital images #Estimation #Land surface #Soil #Surface roughness #Fractals #Rough surfaces #Surface texture
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Hyperspectral Image Segmentation and Entropy Calculation for Qualitative Analysis of Grassland
📅 July 2023 🧑 S. Oprisescu, R. M. Coliban, M. Ivanovici #Reflectivity #Image segmentation #Histograms #Thresholding (Imaging) #Image resolution #Entropy #Indexes
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AI-Based Visualization of Remotely-Sensed Spectral Images
📅 July 2023 🧑 I. Plajer, A. Baicoianu, L. Majercsik #Visualization #Interpolation #Satellites #Image color analysis #Military computing #Neural networks #Military satellites
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Romanian Excellence Center on Artificial Intelligence in Earth Observation Data for Agriculture official opening
📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov 📅 22 June 2023
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Copernicus 25th anniversary
📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov 📅 8 June 2023
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Hyperspectral Image Visualization Based on Maximum-Reflectance Wavelength Colorization
📅 June 2023 🧑 K. Marandskiy, M. Ivanovici, #Reflectivity #Surface waves #Data visualization #Metals #Hyperspectral imaging
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A Multi-Spectral Fractal Image Model and Its Associated Fractal Dimension Estimator
📅 October 2023 🧑 M. Ivanovici #Fractal dimension #Box counting #Multi-spectral fractal images #Remotely sensed multi-spectral images
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Multi-spectral fractal images dataset
https://ai4agri.unitbv.ro/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/low_mid_high_cmplx_MSI.zip
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Inteligență artificială
📅 2023 🧑 Corneliu FLOREA, Laura FLOREA
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AI4AGRI Launch Meeting
📍 R&D Institute of the Transilvania University of Brasov 📅 19 October 2022
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kick-off meeting 19/Oct/22
Preliminary agenda – KoM AI4AGRI 14:00 – welcome word from the director of the R&D Institute of UNITBV 14:15 – presentation of the project and the introduction of the partners (me) 15:00 – presentation of UT2J and UPS (prof. Josiane Mothe) 15:15 – presentation of UNITOV (prof. Fabio Del Frate) 15:30 – coffee break 16:00 –…