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Project Description

This is "The Multimedia Signal Processing and Security Lab", short WaveLab, website. We are a research group at the Artificial Intelligence and Human Interfaces (AIHI) Department of the University of Salzburg led by Andreas Uhl. Our research is focused on Visual Data Processing and associated security questions. Most of our work is currently concentrated on Biometrics, Media Forensics and Media Security, Medical Image and Video Analysis, and application oriented fundamental research in digital humanities, individualised aquaculture and sustainable wood industry.
   

Biometric fingerprints of trees: log tracing from forest to sawmill and early estimation of wood quality (TreeTrace)

 

Project Description:

TreeTrace (FWF project I 3653) is an international project with three French and two Austrian partners. On the Austrian side, this is a joint project with the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (School of Forest Products Technology), where we have the role of a national research partner. The project considers two application cases for log cross-section imaging as follows: The first application case is the question of tracing tree logs from the forest harvesting site to the sawmill by using biometrics related tree log recognition techniques based on image processing of cross - section data only. This approach of course assumes the additional availability of imaging sensors in the forest. Since there is a trend for installing CT imaging devices at sawmills, which are of course not available in the forest, the challenging issue of cross modality matching arises. The second application case is the determination of wood quality from cross - section imagery, applicable already in the forest, and/or at the sawmill.

 
 

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Timeframe:

  • Feb 2018 - Jan 2022
 
 

Publications:

  1. [Wimmer24b  ] Log cross section quality metrics: Assessing the usability of roundwood image data for roundwood tracking Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Alexander Petutschnigg, Andreas Uhl Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 221, pp. 108945, 2024
  2. [Wimmer22b  ] Robustness of texture-based roundwood tracking Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Heinz Hofbauer, Alexander Petutschnigg, Andreas Uhl European Journal of Wood and Wood Products 81, pp. 669-683, 2023
  3. [Wimmer22c ] Roundwood Tracking from the Forest to the Sawmill using filter approaches to highlight the annual ring pattern Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Alexander Petuschnigg, Andreas Uhl In 24th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2022)2022
  4. [Wimmer22a   ] An analysis of the use of hyperspectral data for roundwood tracking Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Heinz Hofbauer, Alexander Petutschnigg, Andreas Uhl In Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2022 Workshops, pp. 294–307, Malaga, Springer LNCS, 13379, July 4 - July 7, 2022
  5. [Schraml21b  ] Physical Object Identification and Authentication Applications Rudolf Schraml PhD thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Salzburg, AUSTRIA, March 2021
  6. [Wimmer21b   ] Cross-Modality Wood Log Tracing Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Lukas Lamminger, Alexander Petutschnigg, Andreas Uhl In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2021), pp. 191-195, 2021
  7. [Wimmer21a  ] Two-Stage CNN-Based Wood Log Recognition Georg Wimmer, Rudolf Schraml, Heinz Hofbauer, Alexander Petutschnigg, Andreas Uhl In Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2021, pp. 115-125, Cham, LNCS, 12955, Springer International Publishing, 2021
  8. [Decelle20a  ] Neural Networks for Cross-Section Segmentation in Raw Images of Log Ends (Best Session Paper Award) Remi Decelle, Ehsaneddin Jalilian In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Applications and Systems (IPAS 2020), pp. 1-6, Genova, Italy, December 9 - December 11, 2020
  9. [Schraml20a  ] Matching Score Models for Hyperspectral Range Analysis to Improve Wood Log Traceability by Fingerprint Methods Rudolf Schraml, Karl Entacher, Alexander Petutschnigg, Timothy Young, Andreas Uhl Mathematics 8:7, pp. 10, 2020