Publishing the result of algorithm contest!!



Rux2000 Project

Study Group on Machine Vision for Bio-production



Project leader: Naoshi Kondo (Kyoto Univ.)
Secretary: Tomoo Shiigi (Kyoto Univ.)



What is Study Group on Machine Vision for Bio-production (Bio-Vision)?

    Today’s technologies on machine vision for Bio-production have turned into an actual utilization stage such as many TV cameras in grading facilities, and contribute in bio-production field for laborsaving, informatization and traceability to keep safety and security of food. As our journals of JSAM and EAEF have shown so far, a lot of researches using machine visions have been reported: harvesting robots, autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, product inspection systems, monitoring systems and etc. It is expected that those researches may assist to solve problems in Japanese agriculture on aging of farmer, missing successor, low food self-sufficiency, worry about food and agricultural products. Because importance of machine vision in bio-production field is increasing and machine vision technologies have been spread widely, we raised this study project as a RUX 2000 project, JSAM in order to learn and exchange techniques on machine vision in bio-production and started an algorithm contest since last year (2009). Any researchers and students who are interested in machine vision in bio-production are welcome to join this Study Group.


Main objectives

  There are two main objectives in this project as below.

  1. To improve techniques on machine vision by exchanging information among members

  2. To raise motivations of young researchers including students to study machine vision by holding study meetings and contests

Main activity

  1. Algorithm contest of image processing for Bio-production

  2. Study meeting

    Algorithm contest of image processing for Bio-production (ALCON) will be held once in a year. An assignment about image for Bio-production is given and algorithms (exe. files) to solve the assignment are collected. Excellent two algorithms are selected as the best algorithms. A study meeting is held on the date of JSAM meeting (Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery) and persons who received the best algorithm award explain the algorithms in the meeting. Participants in this meeting can learn programming techniques and knowledge on image processing in Bio-production.