Research

Current Projects:

      1. Automated crab meat picking machine: Design a vision-based robotic machine to mimick the human pickers behaviors to harvest crab jumbo meat and chamber meat.
        • Wang, Dongyi, Robert Vinson, Maxwell Holmes, Gary Seibel, and Yang Tao. “Convolutional neural network guided blue crab knuckle detection for autonomous crab meat picking machine.” Optical Engineering 57, no. 4 (2018): 043103.
        • Wang, Dongyi, Maxwell Holmes, Robert Vinson, Gary Seibel, and Yang Tao. “Machine Vision Guided Robotics for Blue Crab Disassembly—Deep Learning Based Crab Morphology Segmentation.” In 2018 ASABE Annual International Meeting, p. 1. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2018.
      2. Automated strawberry decalyx machine: Design a computer vision guided strawberry calyx removal machine based on high pressure waterjet
        • Wang, Dongyi, Robert Vinson, Maxwell Holmes, Gary Seibel, Xuemei Cheng, and Yang Tao. “Vision Intelligence guided strawberry decalyx machine–automatic vision-guided intelligent decalyxing network (AVIDnet).” In 2019 ASABE Annual International Meeting, p. 1. American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, 2019.
        • Lin, John, Maxwell Holmes, Robert Vinson, Canran Ge, Frank C. Pogoda, Luke Mahon, Ryan Gentry, Gary E. Seibel, Xin Chen, and Yang Tao. “Design and testing of an automated high-throughput computer vision guided waterjet knife strawberry calyx removal machine.” Journal of Food Engineering 211 (2017): 30-38.
        • Tao, Yang, John Lin, Robert Vinson, Maxwell Holmes, and Gary Seibel. “Machine Vision-Guided Food Processing Automation.” Chemical Engineering Transactions 57 (2017): 1765-1770.
        • Tao, Yang, John Lin, Xin Chen, and Gary E. Seibel. “Automated fruit and vegetable calyx or stem removal machine.” U.S. Patent 9,364,020, issued June 14, 2016.
      3. Erythrocyte Mediated Angiography Automated Velocimetry: Develop a new retinal microvascular blood flow velocity estimation tool.
        • Wang, D., Haytham, A., Pottenburgh, J., Saeedi O., & Tao Y., (2020) “Hard Attention Net for Automatic Retinal Vessel Segmentation,” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI)  (in press)
        • Wang, Dongyi, Ayman Haytham, Lakyn Mayo, Yang Tao, and Osamah Saeedi. “Automated retinal microvascular velocimetry based on erythrocyte mediated angiography.” Biomedical Optics Express 10, no. 7 (2019): 3681-3697. (EVA-AV python) (Test_dataset) (Vis 46.1fps)(Vis 24.6fps) (cardiac cycle plot)
      4. Development of a Robotic Inspection System for Early Identification and Locating of Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Greenhouse Crops
        • Wang, Dongyi, Robert Vinson, Maxwell Holmes, Gary Seibel, Avital Bechar, Shimon Nof, and Yang Tao. “Early Detection of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus by Hyperspectral Imaging and Outlier Removal Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Nets (OR-AC-GAN).” Scientific reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 4377.
        • Puwadol Oak Dusadeerungsikul, Shimon Y. Nof, Avital Bechar, Yang Tao. “Collaborative Control Protocol for Agriculture Cyber-Physical System.” International Conference on Production Research Manufacturing Innovation, 2019, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Past Projects:

      1. X-ray and laser range imaging system to detect bones in boneless poultry
      2. Identification of stem/calyx of apples
      3. Use of hyperspectral imaging to detect fecal contamination on canteloupes, apples and strawberries
      4. Defect detection for apples and cucumbers
      5. Use of hyperspectral imaging to detect walnut shells
      6. Infrared and laser range imaging system for noninvasive estimation of internal cooking temperature in poultry fillets
      7. Use of thermography, laser Doppler imaging, and near-infrared spectroscopy to detect radiation tissue damage;
      8. Using multi-modality imaging techniques to assess vascularity in AIDS-related Kaposi’s sarcoma;
      9. Ultra-low-dose X-ray Multi-slice Helical CT
      10. Source analysis-based brain-computer interface (BCI) for wheelchair control by neurologically disabled patients