Research initiatives, datasets, and open-source software.
USDA-funded research developing transformer-based AI systems for real-time methane emission detection and dietary classification in livestock using optical gas imaging.
Funding
USDA NIFA Award #2022-70001-37404
Publications
Gasformer · CVPR Workshop, 2024
GasTwinFormer · ICCV Workshop, 2025
IET Image Processing, 2025
Calibration flag photos from 62 trail cameras at two Illinois forest sites: 122 photos with 4,395 ground-contact markers, collected with the Center for Wildlife Sustainability Research at SIU Carbondale.
Reference-Conditioned Distance Intervals on Unseen Camera Traps · CV4E Workshop at ECCV, 2026
Multi-task temporal dataset of 16 weed species with pixel-level segmentation masks, height measurements, and growth stage labels across an 11-week growth cycle.
WeedSense: Multi-Task Learning for Weed Segmentation, Height Estimation, and Growth Stage Classification · ICCV Workshop, 2025
4,885 methane plume images captured with a FLIR GF77 OGI camera across four dietary treatment conditions for studying rumen fermentation and enteric methane emission.
Optical gas imaging and deep learning for quantifying enteric methane emissions from rumen fermentation in vitro · IET Image Processing, 2025
A Windows desktop app that measures the distance to each white-tailed deer in camera-trap photos with MegaDetector, SpeciesNet, and a reference-conditioned distance network, built for the Center for Wildlife Sustainability Research at SIU Carbondale.
Python · PyTorch · WebView2
A web tool for boxing muskrat huts on drone orthomosaics of up to 780 megapixels, served as map tiles in the browser.
React · Leaflet · Vercel · Neon Postgres · Cloudflare R2
A desktop mask annotation tool with polygon, freehand, and brush tools and dual layers, used to label the GasGround optical gas imaging dataset.
Python
A fast, keyboard-driven labeler for distance-flag calibration in wildlife camera-trap surveys, available as a desktop app and on the web.
React · TypeScript · Rust · Tauri · Supabase
A retrieval-augmented study assistant for a graduate deep learning course, with citation-backed answers, quizzes, and audio review episodes.
Next.js · TypeScript · Pinecone · Supabase