Valentin Stefan

I will likely close this account. For those who want to stay in touch, you can find me as usual on GitHub (valentinitnelav) and LinkedIn (valentin-stefan), and as of today, also on this new Bluesky thing at veralis.bsky.social (hopefully it doesn’t get X-ed also)

University of South Bohemia seeks PhD student to study how pollinator biodiversity, plant-pollinator interactions and pollinator services respond to grassland restoration. Research in the White Carpathians as part of SEPPI. More info: researchgate.net/job/1008088_A_…

Week 1 (of 3) in the books at #CV4Ecology2023 ! We're working hard while still enjoying the California sunshine, and celebrating our wins as they come 😀!

📸🐝 Is automated monitoring of pollinators possible? Can cameras in the field and AI image processing really do what an ecologist can? Find out at out webinar on 10th November including talks from @LucaPegoraro3 @Claire_Carvell @HjalteMann wildlabs.net/event/workshop…

📢Job Alert📢 We have an exciting postdoc position to advance #image-based #deeplearning methods for #insect #ecology and #monitoring within a world-class 🇪🇺Horizon Europe consortium of experts in ecology and computer science @MAMBO_EU international.au.dk/about/profile/…

#MaximilianSittinger on a simple, low-cost, solar-powered camera trap for automated insect detection and biodiversity monitoring - very cool hardware setup!

Extremely excited to start my @GreenTalents research stay at the Spatial Interaction Ecology group at @idiv. During my stay, I will explore how we can use #AI and #ComputerVision to advance and automate pollination monitoring for #biodiversity research. 🐝📹📊 #Sustainability

"Nature conservation is one of the biggest drivers of AI." @EdgeImpulse just announced a new product in collaboration with Conservation X Labs: an AI-powered camera for conservation & field research! #2022Imagine

🌼 Automated quantification of flower phenology across full growing seasons! 🌼 I am proud to present our new paper demonstrating that time-lapse cameras and #deeplearning can substitute traditional methods for monitoring flower #phenology. doi.org/10.1002/rse2.2… @TokeHoye

#FaunaPhotonics sensors digitally monitor flying insects’ activities to calculate a #biodiversity index in various habitats e.g. wetlands, fields - but also in (sub)urban environments. The #data can then be accessed in our customer portal. #weseeinsects #greencity #sustainability

Job in Statistical Consulting, Teaching and Coordination @ UFZ Leipzig lnkd.in/eg6qQhyV

Research assistant / PostDoc / Data Scientist in Forest research - Thünen Institute, Eberswalde Germany. lnkd.in/eYujCu2F

@FaunaPhotonics Really fascinating work! My colleagues and I study plant-pollinator interactions. Do you plan to focus your work in that direction as well? We are currently exploring with using mobile phone cameras and training model for pollinator detection and classification.

Some of our colleagues here at FaunaPhotonics have been a part of writing a novel and interesting paper about the technology we use. The paper has now been published in Nature: Scientific Reports. Congratulation to everyone involved!👇 nature.com/articles/s4159…

How can #AI / #ML methods be used in the field of pollination ecology and taxonomy?🌻🐝 🎯The aim: automatic classification of insect pollinators! Learn more in today’s #HelmholtzAIproject #showcase, a collaboration between @DLR_en & @UFZ_de:➡️bit.ly/PAI_project

Robin Spanier @DLR_de presents his interesting application of #AI to classify insects from crowdsourcing images at the Helmholtz AI conference #HelmholtzAIcon. Impressive work as a master thesis.

Now PhD student Robin Spanier from @DLR_en is talking about 'Pollination #ArtificialIntelligence (PAI): Using #DeepLearning to identify pollinators'. 🐝🐞🌻

Super grateful to our iDiv slam presenters for sharing the art behind their science @idiv 🥳🎉🥂🍻 #idivconf22 #biodiversity

Kicking off of the annual @idiv conference 2022, this time fully virtual w >340 participants. WELCOME! Claire Fortunel @ird_fr as 1st keynote on processes shaping tropical forest biodiversity #idivconf22 Looking forward to 2 days full of inspiring science & interactions.

Why do so many incompetent men become leaders? And what can we do about it? ideas.ted.com/why-do-so-many…