On March 6, 2018, Kcomber successfully held
the First International Artificial Intelligence (Agrotech) Seminar in Leshan
City, China. The event was divided into two parts. In the first part, AI
research experts from Kcomber’s brand Yonoop as well as Chinese governmental
officials and professors have presented the newest results in crop protection
image recognition and pathology. The second part was an academic discussion
about the presented topics.
Besides the Chairman Wu Zhonghui, Vice
General Manager Xie Zhongbo, and deputy general Manager Cheng Hongshan from
Kcomber, government officials from the technological and agricultural bureaus
of Leshan City as well as officials from committees of the High-tech industrial
Development Zone in Leshan City took part. The seminar hosted a great amount of
highly skilled experts in the fields of AI and aggrotech, including Dr. Ben
Goertzel, a pioneer in the research and application of artificial intelligence
as well as the Chief Scientist of CCM’s Agricultural Technology Research
Institute.
Dr. Goertzel has introduced the progress of
AI image recognition of Kcomber’s brand Yonoop, after the general idea and the
purpose was outlined by Mr. Wu. He talked about the deep learning algorithm and
explained the algorithm to identify user images and set them into known
categories automatically.
After this, Professor Peng Yunliang from
the Sichuan Agricultural University and Crop Protection Institute of
Agricultural Science, has introduced the latest research methods of pathology
in China. After the presentations, the seminar went on in the second part with
several academic discussions among all participants. The engaging conversations
have been around comparisons of methods of image acquisition, agricultural
disease and pest image processing and AI recognition as well as methods of
research object selectin and processing on agricultural economy and biological
diversity.
The event was a full success, as all
participants got new impressions on the opportunities of crop pest and disease
image recognition and the development of AI technology in the agricultural
sector.
About
Yoonop
Yoonop, a brand of Kcomber, is a cloud
service platform starts from AMP store and provides full ranges of
comprehensive business management, based on AI-driven agriculture. Meanwhile,
Yoonop embeds household, manufacturers and big data service modules to realize
the connectivity of information on all elements of the agricultural supply
chain and consumption chain through three different aspects technology
platforms of manufacturer, agricultural material store and farmers.
Besides, Yoonop provides integrated
solutions for agricultural big data collection, agricultural product
circulation, agro-technical popularization service, disease pest control,
agricultural information early warning and so on.
Yoonop enables trend analysis to get
diseases symptoms easily and convenient. Historical transaction analysis and
correlation analysis will evaluate users credit risk. Agricultural products
trade analysis to conclude regional food security risks. Furthermore, get
recommended agricultural knowledge based on the condition of the user planting
and breeding stage
Yoonop uses a combination algorithm based
on utility recommendation and knowledge recommendation. Get a product quantity
recommendation. The innovative deep learning algorithm identifies user images
to recognize and categorize results automatically.