News archive

JUL 22, 2020

We are delighted to inform you the Special Issue Acquire and Perceive: Novel Approaches for Imaging-based Plant Phenotyping on Remote Sensing (MPDI) is now live. More info here!

JUN 12, 2020

The Phenotiki team has published a new paper entitled “Affordable and robust phenotyping framework to analyse root system architecture of soil‐grown plants.

MAY 10, 2020

CVPPP 2020 Workshop announced. This time our workshop will be held in conjunction with ECCV (Glasgow, UK). This workshop will be online due to the conseguences of the COVID-19 global pandemic. More info here!

FEB 20, 2020

The Phenotiki team has published a new paper entitled “Doing More With Less: A Multi-Task Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping.Code available here!

DEC 18, 2019

We got a special session at the World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2020) entitled Deep Learning for Crop Science. More info here!

NOV 15, 2019

We got invited to present at the AI between Plant and Agricultural Science organised by The Alan Turing Institute.

JUL 17, 2019

The Phenotiki team has published 3 papers at the CVPPP 2019 workshop. Check our Credits page out to read them!

MAR 13, 2019

CVPPP 2019 Workshop announced. This time our workshop will be held in conjunction with CVPR (Long Beach, CA, USA). More info here!

FEB 20, 2019

The Phenotiki team has published a new paper entitled “Sharing the Right Data Right: A Symbiosis with Machine Learning”. Have a look to the associated website to see how Phenotiki is positively impacting the research community.

SEP 13, 2018

We started the PhenomUK Network. Join the network!.

AUG 13, 2018

CVPPP 2018 Workshop announced. It will be held in conjunction with BMVC (Newcastle, UK). More info here!

AUG 12, 2018

The Phenotiki team has published a new paper entitled “Pheno‐Deep Counter: a unified and versatile deep learning architecture for leaf counting

JAN 9, 2018

The Phenotiki team has published a new paper entitled “Citizen crowds and experts: observer variability in image-based plant phenotyping

JAN 22, 2018

Invited for a talk on our recent findings (paper currently under review) on observer variaiblity in image-based plant phenotyping at IAMPS 2018, Nottingham (UK).

JUL 17, 2017

New CVPPP 2017 challenge held in conjunction with ICCV 2017. More info here!

MAY 15, 2017

Our Phenotiki sensor will be part of the Chickpea Project (PI Peter Doerner from the University of Edinburgh). BBSRC grant BB/P023487/1.

MAY 13, 2017

The Phenotiki team has been invited to give a demo at the IPPN workshop at the Forschungszentrum Jülich

MAY 2, 2017

We started a citizen science project for leaf annotation. Get involved here!

OCT 20, 2016

Seminar about affordable phenotyping and Phenotiki at the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment (DAFNAE) of the University of Padova, Italy.

SEP 5, 2016

Keynote and hands-on session about Phenotiki at IAMPS 2016 in Angers, France.

JUN 22, 2016

Phenotiki to be presented at Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), UK.

MAY 25, 2016

We are updating the Phenotiki device software to work with the new Rasbperry Pi.

MAY 24, 2016

Phenotiki paper is submitted!

MAY 15, 2016

Dr. Tsaftaris, Phenotiki (PI) joins the IPPN Imaging for Phenotyping Working Group.

MAY 12, 2016

Phenotiki presented at the Scientific Board of Edinburgh Plant Sciences, UK.

MAY 5, 2016

Phenotiki device being tested at the University of Padova, Italy.

APR 22, 2016

Phenotiki device being tested at the University of Wisconsin, USA.

APR 2, 2016

Phenotiki device being tested at CONICET, Argentina.

FEB 18, 2016

The challenges and opportunities of affordable phenotyping are presented at the ITA-PPN workshop in Rome, Italy.

NOV 20, 2015

Phenotiki presented at the University of Nottingham, UK.

NOV 11, 2015

Phenotiki is presented at the EPPN Symposium in Barcelona, Spain.

OCT 27, 2015

New software packages and user guides available for download.

SEP 25, 2015

Phenotiki is presented at the European Researchers' Night at IMT Lucca, Italy.

SEP 10, 2015

2nd Computer Vision Problems in Plant Phenotyping (CVPPP) workshop at BMVC 2015 in Swansea, UK.

SEP 7, 2015

“The significance of image compression in plant phenotyping applications” published in Functional Plant Biology.

JUL 28, 2015

LeafAnnotationTool is now available for download.

JUN 16, 2015

“Image analysis: The new bottleneck in plant phenotyping” published in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.

FEB 6, 2015

The website phenotiki.com is launched.