The Danish Technological Institute is a tech transfer agency (not-for-profit private company) which, amongst other expertise, writes programs for agricultural applications. Denmark is one of the 5 countries which may supply experts for the current ICT-Agri/SmartAgriFood call. We would like to talk with SMEs requiring a vision/robot expert for this call.

We tailor our solution based on libraries such as Halcon and Cognex, or invent new methods if the standard methods cannot cope. Outdoor vision algorithms normally centre around LIDAR and augmented reality, using the latest lighting and camera models. A specialized R&D solution from DTI is state of the art because it can make use of methods that have not yet entered the commercial vision libraries.

Here are some projects illustrating our experience in the three representative domains:

1. Arable farming : QUAD-AV (Artemis), where we processed output from a suite of visual sensors including LIDAR and thermal imaging http://www.issia.cnr.it/wp/?portfolio=quad-av-ambient-awareness-for-autonomous-agricultural-vehicles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUPEiKwrmVM
2. Horticulture : a commercial project for early detection of gall mites in blackcurrant buds, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.3920/978-90-8686-778-3_63 . We also do greenhouse projects.
3. Livestock farming : StaldTek Clean,  where we developed algorithms to determine when a cleaner had finished cleaning animal stalls. http://www2.atb-potsdam.de/cigr-imageanalysis/images/images12/tabla_137_C0555.pdf

Our VisionBox system, which gets tailor-made for the specific task has been used as described on http://www.dti.dk/services/dti-vision-box-quality-control-and-inspection-in-2d-and-3d/35124