The Benefits of Machine Vision
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i’m delighted
and honored to be here to tell you my
story
it is about how the company i co-founded
listen feel you make life better for
farmers
and for the rest of us i believe that
our api integration platform will help
farmers to produce more clean food
in the way that make our planet more
sustainable
i grew up in bangna the village of paddy
fields
in the kona york province 100 kilometers
from bangkok
i was typical of many thai girls until
we lost my father when i was just 14
years old
we felt like we were in the small boat
lost at sea we suffered
but along the way good thing has also
happened
so much so that i’m able to be here with
you today
i was a good student but never the best
i did not like the routine of standing
in the sun for smb
each morning before the cast begin
so i try to sneak over the school
friends just before the class begin
definitely not a good long term strategy
i found a better way i volunteered to
help look after the school computers
every morning it was from this
that i learned to write and do my last
computer program
programming remained and important of my
life to this day
one thing led to another and one day
i obtained a degree in computer study
from king mongood institute of
technology like
bang i then continue my study at
asian institute of technology
my thesis apply advanced image
processing technology
to convert two-dimensional digital
images
into three-dimensional shape of corals
in so doing we were able to monitor
the growth and determine the health of
coral reefs
i then turned my interest to agriculture
a proud moment for me was the success
we had in boston in real time
images of spinner’s plants in xiangdao
to the university of tokyo our sensor
also monitor soil acidity
availability of water temperature
and moisture in the air
why was this important japan used to
impose spinach from another country
but foul chemical residues and need to
find another sort of surprise
when processed and analyzed
chiang dao images allow japanese
consumers
to see with their own eyes how we
in thailand are growing fresh organic
spinach
using the minimum amount of fertilizer
we want japanese consumer confidence
they know about the thought of surprise
and can see with their own eyes
how spinach spent growing in real time
back then in 2006 there was no internet
in chiang dao
a remote part of thailand so we built
field server essentially computer
that processed the data on site
in the field to economize on the use of
information which was then transmitted
via ipsta satellite to the computer
network had
information on the screen
this project create
a lot of winner and with this
we in thailand our technology
can empower huge high farmers
to grow fresh organic spinach
which won japanese consumer confidence
moreover this birthday also attacked
such a wide interest
that more japanese academics visited the
area
they kindly gained more scholarship to
huge high children to further their
education
this project creates many winners and
it opened up a new world for me from
then on
i knew what i was born to do and this is
what listenfield will do
in the years to come i then received
a scholarship from the national
agricultural research institute
of japan professor kiyoshi honda was my
advisor
he guided me to do a phd dissertation
at chubu university in nagoya
on an api integration platform
for economic models definitely
not a catchy title but
i believe that our work could be an
important
contribution to precision agriculture
because it provides insight into
three things which are most important
for all plants
first is soil japan already survey
and therefore know the quality of the
country top soil
the top 15 centimeter using this data
and deeper soil sample i built what i
call
a soil fusion model that can determine
deeper soil sample
deeper to 60 centimeter that can tell
about the soil quality everywhere in
japan
this information available for anyone
using api
second is climate and weather condition
for this i use 30 years of
climatological data
as the benchmark this weather pattern
can determine the climate condition
at precise location with the help of
on-site sensor
our sensor monitor rainfall
and combined with past data can help
anticipate short-term trends
our sensors also monitor moisture
and other factors that are important for
plant growth
that is our model can provide
detailed and timely data about climate
conditions
as well as their outlook at precise
location
anywhere in japan first
is cultiva coefficient
plants have their own unique genotype
this means that they will grow and
reproduce
differently in the response of
environmental condition
this cultural fight that listenfield
have put together
can help tell you how your plants
are growing under prevailing condition
even better we can tell you
how your plants will turn out if they
are fed differently
or if the soil or climate condition
change
it is as if you can see the food
being digested and how this food is
making your body grow
putting all these things together we now
have a very powerful platform
that can produce actionable data
this information allows farmers
to improve their crop yields using the
right amount of fertilizers
at the right places and at the right
time
farmers would also know the best type of
crop to plant in a particular area
as their crop grow farmers would be
given
early warning to avoid costly
infestation
finally our technology
could also tell farmer when is the best
time to plan
and when is the best time to harvest
that crop
how does all these come together in
terms of serving the planet
in 2019 listenfield received
the undp low carbon award
the undp evaluated our farming model
and estimate that we could deliver
an average of 48 to 66
reduction of carbon dioxide emission
compared to conventional farming
to further develop
we set up listenfield japan
i’m glad to say that professor kiyoshi
honda
was my co-founder for this company
the name listenfield reflects our
realization
that nato have always been trying to
tell us many important things
if only we could know how to
listen taking one step further
listenfield is now looking at dna
sequencing of plants
this is how the plants interact with
environmental condition
can produce the quality in fruit and
vegetable
that we desire texture
taste nutritional content
and so on
another technology that we are using to
help farmers to produce
more clean food and more more productive
is multi-spectral emerging technology
this technology allow machine to see
what we human cannot see a kind of
exploration from the sky
how is this useful i will give you two
examples
first is to manage nitrogen stress
multispectral imaging can help determine
whether crop have enough fertilizer
at particular location in the pot of
land
then we can manage fertilizer by added
or cut back
and then we can also help
farmer to maintain the high yields as
well as
manage the minimum amount of fertilizer
in some plants if we add too much
fertilizer
it increase the risk of lodging
which means that the stem of the plants
bend
over making is very difficult to harvest
the grain
and gas re-reduce the yield this is how
we economize on the use of fertilizer
and at the
same time maintaining high yields
second example is we use multi-spectral
images
to manage water stress
for example in oranges
if not enough water oranges cannot
survive
but just enough water stress
the oranges will become sweeter
this is what i’m saying machine vision
in this case multi-spectral imaging
is precision agriculture that
would help farmers to cut cost
risk output and making our planet
more sustainable at the same time
not long ago we submitted our technology
and our model to japanese
to the government of japan
it is now a part of japan agricultural
reform i believe that
japanese authorities think as we do
that investing and an in an api
integration platform
could help to transform agriculture
practice into precision agriculture
this could be the technological
infrastructure
that helped redefine agriculture
into precision agriculture
and can help farmers to produce
the better product at the same time
i also set up listenfield thailand
two years ago to promote adoption of
this technology
while in my country we made a good
progress
there are 30 000 farmers on our platform
over farmland of seventeen thousand
hectares
more importantly seventy percent of
our farmers are producing organic
farming
in general agricultural data in thailand
is
numerous but really fragmented
and scattered and therefore not helpful
for thai farmers
our api integration platform will
integrate this data
in such a way that farmers can easily
use them
to make informed important information
important decision in terms of
planting harvesting
and minimizing cost
imagine how comforting it will be
for farmers if they could see
their fields in all dimension
up close with our machine vision
imagine how farmer welfare
will improve if
uncertainty about their harvest are
greatly reduced
imagine how assure
we consumers would feel if we know that
chemical use have been reduced to a
minimum
i believe that our api integration
platform
with machine learning technology
could help to transform agricultural
practice
into precision agriculture at the same
time
help farmers to produce more
better product
my life story have given me
some important lessons
if something fascinates me i will do my
best
to list out for it in life
i have to deal with many setbacks
a lacking skill such as english
this being that i need to work myself
much harder to limit my endurance
but working hard have been rewarding
so far i only have to cope with
setback never failer
i cannot claim that i found success
but i can say this many people that i
have met
have been really kind and thoughtful
i always admit that i don’t know
please help me learn and i will show
them that
i will work really hard to learn and
truly understand it
the bottom line is this
whenever i was given the opportunity
i would never back away
it is a great privilege for me to be
here with you today
but all good things must come to an end
i would like to leave you with this
thought
where you come from need not matter
this is about how you decide what you do
today and every day to
defy your life tomorrow
promise yourself as i have made promise
to myself
live your life in the way that make this
world a better place
find time to be nice to yourself
but always be nice to your neighbor
and please listen to
what our planet is telling us
my name is la celine chinese and i thank
you very much for watching my talk
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