WACV 2018: Recognition of pollen bearing bees
Congratulation to Iván Rodriguez for having presented his work on the recognition of pollen-bearing bees at WACV2018 at Lake Tahoe, NV. The new approach using Convolutional Neural Networks reaches 96.1% of accuracy [1], and outperforms previous approaches. The image dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/piperod/PollenDataset. [1] I. Rodriguez, R. Mégret, E. Acuña, J. L. Agosto, […]
Start of pilot study at Gurabo
For a bit more than a week, the data collection system has been set up in the UPR Agricultural Experimental Station in Gurabo. Bees will be monitored continuously for a month. Right now, only unmarked bees are daring outside of the colony, but we expect the first marked bees to show up soon ! First […]
3rd Project Meeting
The 3rd project meeting took place on May 24, 2017, at the UPR Agricultural Experimental Station of Gurabo. Apart from the technical discussion, participants visited the Bee Facility and learned about the bee keeping process and understand how the data collection system works. [foogallery id=”105″]
Second meeting
On Feb 27, 2017 was held the second meeting of the project, organized at UPR Mayagüez. We thank Pr. Charles I. Abramson (Oklahoma State University) for his participation to the discussion as Comparative Animal Behavior specialist.
Kickoff meeting
The Kickoff Meeting has taken place at the College of Natural Sciences, UPR Río Piedras, October 14, 2106. All partners were present to discuss the very exciting work ahead of us.