A University of Nebraska research team has been awarded $50,000 to help research a plant's make-up. The grant was given by the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative. The project is one of 11 seed grants awarded to 20 institutions across the country.
Das Choudhury, a research assistant professor in computer science and engineering, is the lead project investigator for the Nebraska project: “Event-based Plant Phenotyping Using Deep Learning: Algorithms, Tools and Datasets.”
She and the research team intend to establish datasets for plant dynamics through images captured at various angles from plant emergence through several growth stages. The datasets will help them create a tool for plant segmentation, which is a fundamental problem when separating plant images from each other and the background. The created datasets and tools will be shared with others in the plant breeding and genetics community.
The University said this project will also help connect crop and livestock scientists to each other to work in data science, statistics, engineering and social sciences.
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