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The Kerner Lab focuses on advancing the foundations and applications of machine learning to foster a more sustainable, responsible, and fair future for all.
Recent News
October 2024
- Kerner Lab’s Dr. Ana Tarano delivered a testimony to the Maui County Council’s Agriculture, Diversification, Environment, and Public Transportation (ADEPT) committee about our work to support food security and agriculture in Maui county in relation to their strategic plan!
- Our research was featured in ASU’s AI Journey report (page 51), showcasing ASU’s vision for harnessing AI’s power to elevate student success, drive groundbreaking research, and redefine the future of education and work.
- Dr. Kerner gave an invited talk for the first Computer Vision for Ecology workshop at ECCV in Milan!
September 2024
- We published a preprint of our new paper, “Fields of The World: A Machine Learning Benchmark Dataset For Global Agricultural Field Boundary Segmentation”, on Arxiv! This paper introduces our new near-global field boundary segmentation benchmark dataset and demonstrates impressive zero-shot results for FTW-trained models. See more details about the dataset and use it yourself at https://fieldsofthe.world/.
- Our team visited Maui, Molokai, and Lanai for our NASA project supporting local farmers and food security in Maui County! We talked story with community leaders and presented a project update at UH Maui County.
- Dr. Kerner gave a colloquium for the Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff! NAU is hiring faculty in AI/ML, so please apply if you are on the job market!
- Dr. Kerner gave an invited talk for the United Nations and ITU AI for Good, watch the recording!
August 2024
- Our NASA proposal, “Enabling Next-Generation Data Science in Planetary Research with Machine Learning Dataset Creation Tools in JMARS”, was selected for a Planetary Data Archiving, Restoration, and Tools (PDART) award!