Intelligent Information Technologies in Fruit Industry

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsLie DengL. Deng received B.Sc. degree in Pomology from Southwest Agricultural College, China in 1982. His research interests include intelligent systems, citrus physiology and culture technology, systems modeling and analysis. Professor Deng is the Elite researcher of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, standing committee member of the Chinese Society of Citriculture, Vice-president of the Citrus Research Institute under the Southwest University and the deputy director of the Chongqing Society of Horticulture, and Editor-in-chief of the China Fruit News.Qiang LyuQ. Lyu received B.Sc. degree in Food Sciences from Henan Institute of Technology, Xinxiang, China in 2002, M.Sc. degree in Food Sciences from Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China in 2008, and Ph.D. degree in Food Sciences from the Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China in 2010. Associate Professor Lyu joined the Citrus Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in 2011. His research interests include remote sensing for precision application, harvesting robot, and image processing.Simon X. YangS. X. Yang received B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics from Beijing University, China in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in Biophysics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, USA in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1999. Professor Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada. His research interests include intelligent systems, robotics, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, control systems, soft computing, systems modeling and analysis, and computational neuroscience. Professor Yang serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and International Journal of Complex Systems – Computing, Sensing and Control, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many conferences. He is the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Logistics and Automation.