About me
Junfeng is a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor in US) in Agri-Robotics of the Lincoln Agri-Robotic Centre (LAR) and the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (LCAS) at the University of Lincoln.
His research mainly focuses on the development of computational models using computer vision and deep learning in the domain of Agriculture, particularly in the robotic applications for autonomous navigation and crop care. Previously, He completed his PhD in machine learning and computer vision for precision farming at Ghent University, Belgium. He also worked at Wageningen University and Research, University of Nottingham, SLU Sweden on agri-robotics and computer vision. He has been serving as deputy programme chair for TAROS 2021. He is one of guest editors for Agricultural Robotics special issue for current Robotics Reports and was invited as reviewer for multiple SCI journals.
His research lies at the interaction of robotics, computer vision, and machine learning for Agri-food applications.
Project
AI Unleashed awarded £242152 by Ceres in 2021.
Autonomous Blackgrass Detection awarded £214975 by Ceres in 2020.
EPSRC CDT studentship — awarded £96540 by EPSRC & BBRO in 2021
EPSRC CDT studentship — awarded £96540 by EPSRC & DBT in 2021
Opportunity
Please check the EPSRC AgriFoRwArdS CDT programme (Lincoln, Cambridge and East Anglia) and contact me for the fully funded PhD opportunity.
Joint PhD students and visiting scholars are also welcomed!
Recent News
Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems book editored by Charles Fox, Junfeng Gao, Amir Ghalamzan Esfahani, Mini Saaj, Marc Hanheide, Simon Parsons is now published online by Springer.
GaoLab Github is online. Please get access to our research dataset and submission for ICRA 2022!
- Calling for paper: the spcial issue on robotics for crop care and breeding is online in the frontiers in plant science journal.
- The book chapter on computer vision and less complex image analysis for monitoring potato traits is published by Springer. Please check this link .
- TAROS 2021 conference goes virtually and the registration fee is free now for everybody!
- Agricultural roboics special issue for Current Robotics Reports