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  • PACMAN Briefings – Session IV

    Beyond Commercialization – Engineering Research for Crop Load Management March 9 @ 9:00 am – 11:00 am (Pacific Time) This session provides updates on engineering-related research that looks to the future for apple crop load management. See what is being developed for further sensing and automation to assist with orchard production. Presentations are provided by researchers at

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  • Mask R-CNN based apple flower detection and king flower identification for precision pollination

    “Identification of individual king flowers within flower clusters is a critical step for developing a robotic apple pollination system. Typically, each cluster has five to six individual flowers, and the king flower can be occluded by the lateral flowers because of their central position in a flower cluster. King flowers share identical features (e.g., color,

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  • PACMAN Briefings Chat Transcript 3

    January 26, 2023 Chat Transcript Recording(s) here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLajA3BBVyv1zc9xkiCSPqj3rEjW2vJ4Yb Today’s Guests: Oli Hilbourne (Outfield); Jenny Lemieux (Vivid Machines); Karina Lau (AgerPix); Steve Mantle (Innov8); Mauricio Guerra Funes (Cornell University) 00:45:26 GK: Any use of drones for pest scouting?00:45:53 BA: How big does fruiot have to be to detect in mm00:46:35 BA: How small can you define a

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