Future Lab: Measuring Vineyard Yields

October 25th, 2010 |
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Agriculture presents good opportunities for robotics and computer vision research. And practices, devices and algorithms developed by researchers may someday significantly benefit farmers and improve crops. Determining vineyard yields is one of Intel Labs’ computational agriculture projects.

Total time – 8:07

Interviewees:
Karl D. Wente, Senior Vice President of Winemaking, Wente Vineyards
Lily Mummert, Research Scientist, Intel Labs, Pittsburgh
Debadeepta Dey, PhD Student, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

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