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Jan Weyler is a researcher specializing in computer vision and machine learning for agricultural applications, with a particular focus on precision farming, plant phenotyping, and agricultural robotics. His work addresses one of the most pressing challenges in modern agriculture: enabling autonomous systems to reliably perceive, classify, and analyze crops and weeds across diverse field environments. Weyler's most notable contributions include developing methods for joint plant instance detection and leaf count estimation for in-field phenotyping (68 citations), advancing semantic segmentation techniques that generalize across different crops, fields, and robotic platforms, and leading the creation of PhenoBench (48 citations), a large-scale benchmark dataset that has become a valuable resource for the agricultural vision community. A recurring theme in his research is domain adaptation — designing systems that maintain robust performance when deployed in new environments without costly retraining, a critical requirement for real-world agricultural deployment. With work spanning unsupervised domain adaptation, panoptic segmentation, domain-specific pre-training, and UAV-UGV collaborative inspection, Weyler has accumulated over 220 citations, demonstrating meaningful impact in the intersection of robotics, deep learning, and sustainable agriculture. His research contributes directly to reducing agrochemical use and supporting more efficient, environmentally conscious farming practices.