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Dr Derek Long

Dr Derek Long
Name Derek Long
Position Lecturer
Section School of Agriculture and Environmental Science
Office T322
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 1515
Extension 1515
Email
Qualifications BEng(Hons) USQ , PhD USQ
Homepage https://create.usq.edu.au/dereklong/
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Biography

Derek Long (BEng UniSQ, PhD UniSQ) works at the University of Southern Queensland as a researcher with the Centre for Agricultural Engineering and a lecturer at the School of Agriculture and Environmental Science. Specialising in image analysis for agricultural applications, Derek has worked with a range of camera platforms including drones, tractors and smartphones to enable machine monitoring in typically labour-intensive applications across the cotton, grains and livestock industries. His current research focuses heavily on tapping into the potential of smartphone sensing for crop scouting on-farm.

Research Career


  • Agricultural Engineering ( 099901 )
  • Agricultural Engineering ( 409901 )
  • Other Engineering ( 409900 )
  • Video Processing ( 460309 )
  • Image Processing ( 460306 )
  • Neural Networks ( 461104 )
  • Machine Learning ( 461100 )
  • Computer Vision And Multimedia Computation ( 460300 )
  • Deep Learning ( 461103 )
  • Computer Vision ( 460304 )

Applied computer vision in agriculture


  • Centre for Agricultural Engineering (CAE)

Teaching


AGR2202 Instrumentation and Automation in Agriculture
AGR3105 Smart Data Farming


3 Years

Supervision


  • Agricultural Engineering ( 099901 )
  • Agricultural Engineering ( 409901 )
  • Other Engineering ( 409900 )
  • Video Processing ( 460309 )
  • Image Processing ( 460306 )
  • Neural Networks ( 461104 )
  • Machine Learning ( 461100 )
  • Computer Vision And Multimedia Computation ( 460300 )
  • Deep Learning ( 461103 )
  • Computer Vision ( 460304 )