Sebastian Varela

Postdoc, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PI: Leakey)

Recent Publications

• Breaking the Barrier of Human-annotated Training Data for Machine Learning-aided Plant Research using Aerial Imagery
• Machine Learning-enabled Computer Vision for Plant Phenotyping: A Primer on AI/ML and Case Study on Stomatal Patterning
• Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Exploit High-Spatial- and -Temporal-Resolution Aerial Imagery to Phenotype Key Traits in Miscanthus
• Implementing Spatio-Temporal 3D-Convolution Neural Networks and UAV Time Series Imagery to Better Predict Lodging Damage in Sorghum
• Understanding growth Dynamics and Yield Prediction of Sorghum Using High Temporal Resolution UAV Imagery Time Series and Machine Learning

Recent Datasets

• Breaking the Barrier of Human-Annotated Training Data for Machine-Learning-Aided Plant Research Using Aerial Imagery
• Influence of Particle Size on NIR Spectroscopic Characterization of Sorghum Biomass for the Biofuel Industry
• UAV Remote Sensing Imagery of Miscanthus — 2020
• UAV-Based Multispectral Time-Series Imagery of Biomass Sorghum — 2019