Juicing AI: University of Florida Taps Computer Vision to Combat Citrus Disease
Florida orange juice is getting a taste of AI.
With the Sunshine State’s $9 billion annual citrus crops plagued by a fruit-souring disease, researchers and businesses are tapping AI to help rescue the nation’s largest producer of orange juice.
University of Florida researchers are developing AI applications for agriculture. And the technology – computer vision for smart sprayers – is now being licensed and deployed in pilot tests by CCI, an agricultural equipment company.
The efforts promise to help farmers combat what’s known as ‘citrus greening,’ the disease brought on by bacteria from the Asian citrus psyllid insect hitting farms worldwide.
“It’s having a huge impact on the state of Florida, California, Brazil, China, Mexico – the entire world is battling a citrus crisis,” said Yiannis Ampatzidis, assistant professor at UF’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering focusing on automation in agriculture.
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