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Toward Estimating the Crop Coefficient of Vineyards Using a Smartphone Camera

Jonathan Jaramillo, Justine Vanden Heuvel, Kirstin Petersen

American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 2025

We developed a smartphone camera and computer vision-based method to estimate vineyard crop coefficient by measuring shaded area, providing a low-cost, accessible alternative to Paso Panel measurements.

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Inexpensive, Automated Pruning Weight Estimation in Vineyards

Jonathan Jaramillo, Aaron Wilhelm, Nils Napp, Justine Vanden Heuvel, Kirstin Petersen

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

We present a low-cost, computer vision-based approach using smartphones and structured light to estimate vineyard pruning weight, outperforming existing methods for VSP vines and extending to HC vines.

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Mobile and Inflatable Interface for Human Robot Interaction

Jonathan Jaramillo, Andrew Lin, Emma Sung, Isabel Jane Hunt Richter, Kirstin Petersen

2021 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2024

We introduce a low-cost mobile robot platform with an inflatable human-scale interface, designed for safe and engaging human-robot interaction in crowded environments.

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Low-Cost, Computer Vision-Based, Prebloom Cluster Count Prediction in Vineyards

Jonathan Jaramillo, Justine Vanden Heuvel, Kirstin Petersen

Frontiers in Agronomy, 2021

We developed a computer vision system that uses videos taken with a smartphone to estimate grape yield more accurately and efficiently than traditional manual counting methods.

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