PhD Studentship

Warwick HRI

PhD Studentship available with Mr R N Edmondson (Warwick HRI) and Professor R Wilson (University of Warwick) from October 2005

ProjectTitle: Decision support for glasshouse ornamental production usingdigital imaging and artificial neural networks Ref: HRI07-055

Theproject will develop the potential of digital imaging for capturingvisual information on ornamental crops in glasshouses and will developartificial neural networks (ANN's) for analysing and processing digitalplant images in real-time. The aim of the work will be to exploit thepotential for tracking glasshouse ornamental and bedding crops duringproduction using complete visual information on individual plants orpacks at different stages of production. The ANN methodology will beused to match observed plant images against idealised images using adatabase of images and crop specifications. The degree of divergencebetween the matched images will be used to develop ANN rules for makingcrop management decisions such as automated sorting of a non-uniformcrop into uniform sub-batches that could then be managed separately orre-scheduled for marketing purposes. Sorting could be done repeatedlyduring production to produce as many uniform sub-batches as necessaryto meet any required level of ‘within-batch' uniformity.

The studentship is for 3 years with a start date of October 2005 and will be registered at the University of Warwick.

For further information about the project please e-mail: Rodney.edmondson@warwick.ac.uk

There is an annual stipend of £12,000 per annum.

You must have or expect to receive a first or upper second class honours degree in a relevant subject.

ThePhD Studentship is available to suitable overseas candidates but it isa requirement of the studentship that overseas (Non EU candidates) mustpay the additional overseas student fees and must pass an IELTS orTOEFL English Language proficiency test.
Minimum grades for the above are:
IELTS 7.0
TOEFL (Paper based) 620+
TOEFL (Computer based) 260


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To receive a hard copy application pack, please contact theHuman Resources Group on 02476 575231 (24 hour answerphone) or by emailto julie.carder@warwick.ac.uk.An application form MUST be completed if you wish to be considered forthis post. Please note the hard copy and on-line application pack arethe same.

Please quote reference HRI07-055.

Closing date for applications is 24 June 2005.

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