David Jacobs, professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, will give a presentation in Avery Hall on Tuesday, January 22 at 3:30 p.m. He will present "Using Computer Vision for Species Identification".
The presentation will be preceded by an informal talk and reception at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. respectively.
Biography:
Jacobs is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment in the university's Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Jacobs' research has focused on human and computer vision, especially in the areas of object recognition and perceptual organization. He will describe the first mobile app for identifying plant species using automatic visual recognition. The system called Leafsnap identifies tree species from photographs of their leaves.
This seminar is part of the Big Ideas- Big Collaborations- Big Innovation Seminar Series, which is supported by the Agricultural Research Division. The seminar series in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at UNL will cover a broad area of research topics and is meant to bring together collaborations among faculty members across all of UNL.