News

1. [Oct 2024] [Presentation] Six posters from SAFE lab was presented at Arkansas Session ASABE annual meeting.
2. [Oct 2024] [Journal] One paper authored by Siavash for Leveraging Imitation Learning in Agricultural Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Analysis was accepted by Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Congrats!
3. [Sept 2024] [Award] Siavash, Yihong, and Pouya won 2024 UARK College of Engineering Fellowship. Congrats!
4. [Sept 2024] [Proceeding] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for EAGLE: Efficient Adaptive Geometry-based Learning in Cross-view Understanding was accepted by NeuraIPS. Congrats!
5. [Sept 2024] [Journal] One paper authored by Dr. Bist for Sustainable poultry farming practices: A critical review of current strategies and future prospects was accepted by Poultry Science. Congrats!
6. [Sept 2024] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Review of deep learning-based methods for non-destructive evaluation of agricultural products was accepted by Biosystems Engineering.
7. [June 2024] [Journal] One paper authored by Dr. Wang for Is human perception reliable? Toward illumination robust food freshness prediction from food appearance—Taking lettuce freshness evaluation as an example was accepted by Journal of Food Engineering.
8. [June 2024] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AFRI to develop hyperspectral solutions for chicken woody breast detection and texture regression.
9. [May 2024] [Lab] Dr. Ramesh Bist joined in the lab as a PostDoc. Welcome!
10. [May 2024] [Journal] One paper authored by Dr. Wang for MEMO: dataset and methods for robust multimodal retinal image registration with large or small vessel density differences was accepted by Biomedical Optics Express
11. [April 2024] [Award] Pouya Sohrabipour won first place in the student poster competition at the third USDA-sponsored AI in Ag conference. Congrats!
12. [Mar 2024] [Lab] Amirreza Davar joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
13. [Dec 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Environmental monitoring in food manufacturing: Current perspectives and emerging frontiers was accepted by Food Control
14. [Dec 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Genome-wide association mapping reveals loci for enzymatic discoloration on cut lettuce was accepted by Postharvest Biology and Technology
15. [Nov 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor: Response surface methodology and artificial neural network was accepted by Applied Energy.
16. [Sept 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AMS to develop a domain transferrable beef marbling evaluation system.
17. [Sept 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang has a presentation at Arkansas Session ASABE annual meeting.
18. [Sept 2023] [Lab] Peng Zhou joined in the lab as a PostDoc. Welcome!
19. [Aug 2023] [Lab] Siavash Mahmoudi joined in the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
20. [Aug 2023] [Lab] Pouya Sohrabipour joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
21. [July 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang, Yihong, and Chaitanya have 3 presentations at ASABE annual meeting.
22. [July 2023] [Service] Dr. Wang and Dr. Cengiz Koparan formed the first AG robotic team at UARK who attended the robotic competition for cotton harvest at ASABE 2023.
23. [June 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AFRI A1521 program for develop robotic solutions for facilitating the blue crab industry. The program is led by University of Maryland.
24. [June 2023] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for A review of three-dimensional vision techniques in food and agriculture applications was accepted by Smart Agricultural Technology.
25. [May 2023] [Presentation] Dr. Wang made a presentation about robust vision intelligence for food industry in USDA AMS seminar.
26. [March 2023] [Presentation, Best paper award] Dr Swarna Murugan presented at 2023 International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNWC)
27. [Jan 2023] [Funding] The lab was funded by USDA AFRI Meat and Poultry Processing and Food Safety program for developing mobile robotic platform for autonomous bio-mapping in chicken processing plant.
28. [Dec 2022] [Funding] The lab was funded by NSF NRI 3.0/USDA AFRI program for developing autonomous and intelligence solutions for chicken handling
29. [Nov 2022] [Presentation] Dr Swarna Murugan presented at The 27th NSF EPSCoR National Conference
30. [Nov 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by NSF I-Corp program to train postdoc Dr. Sethu for technology transfer.
31. [Sept 2022] [Award] Dr. Wang won UARK New Faculty teaching award. Congrats!
32. [Aug 2022] [Lab] Chaitanya Pallerla joined in the lab as a M.S. student. Welcome!
33. [July 2022] [Award] Dr. Wang and his previous teammate Mohamed Ali won the second prize in the oral presentation competition at ASABE 2022 annual meeting, Houston. Congrats!
34. [May 2022] [Lab] Gabriel Cox joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
35. [May 2022] [Lab] Yihong Feng joined in the lab as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
36. [May 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by UADA research incentive award to develop a digitalized and portable chicken fleshing score measurement instrument.
37. [May 2022] [Funding]The lab was funded by UARK Engineering Research and Innovation Seed Funding Program to develop 3D imaging devices for food 3D scanning.
38. [May 2022] [Award] Dr. Murugan won the second prize in the poster presentation competition at NSF EPSCoR DART annual meeting. Congrats!
39. [Mar 2022] [Proceeding] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Active-Laser Scanning and Intelligent Picking for Automated Loading of Agricultural Commodities to Processing Machines accepted by 2022 ASABE Annual meeting.
40. [Mar 2022] [Lab] Robert Blindauer joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
41. [Jan 2022] [Lab] Olivia Torres joined in the lab as an undergraduate assistant. Welcome!
42. [Jan 2022] [Funding] The lab was funded by South Region Small Fruit Consortium (SRSFC) to evaluate grape properties from non-invasive hyperspectral imaging system.
43. [Dec 2021] [Lab] Dr. Swarna Murugan voluteered at the lab as a research associate. Welcome!
44. [Dec 2021] [Proceeding] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Prediction of aqueous glucose concentration using hyperspectral imaging was accepted by 2021 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (IEEE EMBC).
45. [Oct 2021] [Journal] One paper co-authored by Dr. Wang for Novel application of long short-term memory network for 3D to 2D retinal vessel segmentation in adaptive optics—optical coherence tomography volumes was accepted by Applied Sciences
46. [Sept 2021] [Funding] The lab was funded by Arkansas NSF EPSCoR Data Analytics that are Robust and Trusted (DART) program to develop illumination robust deep learning models.
47. [Aug 2021] [Funding] The lab was funded by FY22 UADA Infrastructure and Equipment Funding for HSI systems
48. [July 2021] [Presentation] Dr. Wang presented his recent work on Designs of a customized active 3D scanning system for food processing applications at ASABE 2021 annual meeting
49. [June 2021] [Lab] Dr. Wang joined University of Arkansas as an Assistant Professor