Smart Agriculture and Food Engineering (SAFE) Lab

Refereed Publications

(*equal contribution, #corresponding author)

πŸ† Intellectual Properties

[6]

Tao, Yang, Wang, C., HEVAGANINGE, A., Wang D., and Ali, M.A.

"Systems and methods for compound concentration sensing in fluids."

U.S. Patent 12,474,258, issued November 18, 2025.

[5]

Tao, Y., Hevaganinge, A., Chiao-Yi, W. A. N. G., Wang, D., & Ali, M. A.

Systems and methods for pH sensing in fluids.

U.S. Patent 12,007,324, issued June 11, 2024.

[4]

Tao, Y, Vinson R., Wang D., Holmes M., and Seibel G.

"Automated crab meat picking method."

U.S. Patent 11,882,843, issued January 30, 2024.

[3]

Tao, Y., Wang D., Vinson R., Cheng X., Holmes M., and Seibel G.

"Automatic vision guided intelligent fruits and vegetables processing system and method."

U.S. Patent 11,531,317, issued December 20, 2022.

[2]

Tao, Y, Vinson R., Wang D., Holmes M., and Seibel G.

"Automated crab meat picking system and method."

U.S. Patent 11,337,432, issued May 24, 2022.

[1]

Tao, Y., Wang, D., Ali, M.

'Machine Vision Guided Robotic Loading and Processing on Manufacturing Lines'.

U.S. Patent App. 63/262327

πŸ“„ Refereed Journal Publications

2026

[65]

Tian, Y., Liu, Z., Pallerla, C., Mahmoudi, S., Bist, R. B., Xiao, Y., ... & Wang, D.#

Portable Electrochemical Impedance Biosensing with DRT-Enabled Machine Learning for Detecting E. coli O157: H7 in Poultry Meat.

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 9, 1741144.

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[64]

Vinson, S., Wang, D.#

Cross-Facility Reliable Deep Learning Based Beef Marbling Assessment Via Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Regression

Journal of ASABE

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[63]

Mahmoudi, S., Davar, A., Wang, D.#

A State-Adaptive Koopman Control Framework for Real-Time Deformable Tool Manipulation in Robotic Environmental Swabbing

Advanced Robotics Research, e202500142.

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[62]

Bist R., Wang, D., Chai, L., Xiong, Y.

Precision Farming Technologies for Monitoring Livestock and Poultry

AgriEngineering, 8(2), p.64

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[61]

Davar, A., Xu, Z., Mahmoudi, S., Sohrabipour, P., Pallerla, C., She, Y., ... & Wang, D.#

ChicGrasp: Imitation‐Learning‐Based Customized Dual‐Jaw Gripper Control for Manipulation of Delicate, Irregular Bio‐Products.

Advanced Robotics Research, e202500149.

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[60]

Feng, Y., Pallerla, C., Lin, X., Suresh, A., Sohrabipour Sr, P., Crandall, P., Shou, W., … & Wang, D.#

Synthetic data augmentation for enhanced chicken carcass instance segmentation.

IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.

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2025

[59]

Griscom, C., Wang, D., O'Bryan, C. A., Ráám, R., & Crandall, P. G.

Rapid Detection of Chicken Residues on Poultry Plant Surfaces Using Color and Fluorescence Spectrometry.

Foods, 14(24), 4352.

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[58]

Pallerla, C., Bist, R. B., Owens, C. M., Weimer, S., Subbiah, J., & Wang, D.#

Thermal imaging-guided detection of transparent plastic contaminants on chicken breast: A combined vision and simulation approach.

Food Research International, 117993.

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[57]

Bist R., Asnayanti A., Do A., Tian Y., Pallerla C., Wang, D.#, Alrubaye A.#

Automated Detection of Kinky Back in Broiler Chickens Using Optimized Deep Learning Techniques.

AgriEngineering, 7(12), 415.

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[56]

Bist R., Chai L., Subedi S., Tian Y., Wang, D#

Enhancing poultry multi-behavior detection with semi-supervised auto-labeling and prompt-driven zero-shot recognition.

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 240, 111178.

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[55]

Crandall, P. G., O'Bryan, C. A., McFadden, B. R., Wang, D., Obe, T., Houlroyd, J., … & Feng, Y.

A review of successful workplace interventions to mitigate work-related musculoskeletal disorders in poultry processing plant workers: current knowledge and future prospects.

Safety and Health at Work.

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[54]

Mahmoudi, S., Griscom, C., Sohrabipour, P., Tian, Y., Pallerla, C., Crandall, P., & Wang, D.#

Evaluation of Robotic Swabbing and Fluorescent Sensing to Monitor the Hygiene of Food Contact Surfaces.

Foods, 14(19), 3311.

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[53]

Tian, Y., Liu, Z., Huang, Y., Bist, R. B., Xiao, Y., Howe, S. M., … & Wang, D.#

Deep-Learning-Enhanced Automated Coherent-Light Diffraction System for High-Speed, Highly Accurate Strain-Specific Foodborne Bacterial Recognition.

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 102357.

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[52]

Xue, S., Li Z., Wang, D., Zhu T., Zhang B., & Ni C.

YOLO-ALDS: an instance segmentation framework for tomato defect segmentation and grading based on active learning and improved YOLO11.

Computer and Electronics in Agriculture, Vol 238, 110820.

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[51]

Tuhanioglu, A., Wang, D., & Ubeyitogullari, A.

Machine Learning-Guided Wax Fractionation from Bioethanol Side-Stream Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide.

ACS Sustainable Resource Management.

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[50]

Tian, Y., Kelso, L., Xiao, Y., Pallerla, C., Bist, R., Mahmoudi, S., … & Wang, D.#

Palm-size Wireless Piezoelectric Immune-biosensing System for Rapid E. coli O157: H7 Detection.

Sensors International, 100341.

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[49]

Fei, Y., Li, Z., Wang, D., & Ni, C.

The Rapid Detection of Foreign Fibers in Seed Cotton Based on Hyperspectral Band Selection and a Lightweight Neural Network.

Agriculture, 15(10), 1088.

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[48]

Xu, Z., Uppuluri, R., Zhang, X., Fitch, C., Crandall, P. G., Shou, W., Wang, D. & She, Y.

UniT: Data Efficient Tactile Representation with Generalization to Unseen Objects.

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.

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[47]

Sohrabipour, P., Pallerla, C. K. R., Davar, A., Mahmoudi, S., Crandall, P., Shou, W., … & Wang, D.

Cost-Effective Active Laser Scanning System for Depth-Aware Deep-Learning-Based Instance Segmentation in Poultry Processing.

AgriEngineering, 7(3), 77.

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2024

[46]

Agyemang, P., Kwofie, E. M., Baum, J. I., & Wang, D.

Insights from consumers' exposure to environmental nutrition information on a dashboard for improving sustainable healthy food choices.

Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 100241.

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[45]

Agyemang, P., Kwofie, E. M., Baum, J. I., Wang, D., & Kwofie, E.

Environmental-Health Convergence: A deep learning-oriented decision support system for catalyzing sustainable healthy food systems.

Environmental Modelling & Software, 106309.

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[44]

Tagoe, A., Silva, A., Koparan, C., Poncet, A., Wang, D., Johnson, D., & Worthington, M.

Blackberry Growth Monitoring and Feature Quantification with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Remote Sensing.

AgriEngineering, 6(4), 4549-4569.

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[43]

Pallerla, C., Feng, Y., Owens, C. M., Bist, R. B., Mahmoudi, S., Sohrabipour, P., … & Wang, D.#

Neural network architecture search enabled wide-deep learning (NAS-WD) for spatially heterogenous property awared chicken woody breast classification and hardness regression.

Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture.

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[42]

Mahmoudi, S., Davar, A., Sohrabipour, P., Bist, R. B., Tao, Y., & Wang, D.#

Leveraging Imitation Learning in Agricultural Robotics: A Comprehensive Survey and Comparative Analysis.

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 11, 1441312.

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[41]

Bist, R. B., Bist, K., Poudel, S., Subedi, D., Yang, X., Paneru, B., … Wang, D., & Chai, L.

Sustainable poultry farming practices: a critical review of current strategies and future prospects.

Poultry Science, 104295.

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[40]

Li, Z.*, Wang, D.*, Zhu, T., Tao, Y., & Ni, C.

Review of deep learning-based methods for non-destructive evaluation of agricultural products.

Biosystems Engineering, 245, 56-83.

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[39]

Wang, D.#, Sethu, S., Nathan, S., Li, Z., Hogan, V. J., Ni, C., … & Seo, H. S.

Is human perception reliable? Toward illumination robust food freshness prediction from food appearanceβ€”Taking lettuce freshness evaluation as an example.

Journal of Food Engineering, 112179.

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[38]

Zhou, C., Li, Z., Wang, D., Xue, S., Zhu, T., & Ni, C.

SSNet: Exploiting Spatial Information for Tobacco Stem Impurity Detection with Hyperspectral Imaging.

IEEE Access.

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[37]

Hao, L., Cao, P., Li, C., & Wang, D.

The CESAE multiple objection optimization network of the ACO-OFDM VLC system.

Optics Communications, 558, 130365.

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[36]

Agyemang, P., Kwofie, E. M., Baum, J. I., & Wang, D.

The design and development of a dashboard for improving sustainable healthy food choices.

Science of The Total Environment, 172726.

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[35]

Wang, C. Y., Sadrieh, F. K., Shen, Y. T., Chen, S. E., Kim, S., Chen, V., … Wang, D., Saeedi O. & Tao, Y.

MEMO: dataset and methods for robust multimodal retinal image registration with large or small vessel density differences.

Biomedical Optics Express, 15(5), 3457-3479.

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[34]

Ali, M. A., Wang, D., & Tao, Y.

Active Dual Line-Laser Scanning for Depth Imaging of Piled Agricultural Commodities for Itemized Processing Lines.

Sensors, 24(8), 2385.

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[33]

Wang, Y., Liu, Y., Zhao, Y., Sun, Y., Wang, H., Wang, D., … & Jia, F.

A systematic investigation of direct and indirect-cold atmospheric plasma treatment on Bacillus cereus and the application in black pepper.

Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies, 92, 103583.

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[32]

Peng, H., Luo, Y., Teng, Z., Zhou, B., Pearlstein, D., Wang, D., … & Simko, I.

Genome-wide association mapping reveals loci for enzymatic discoloration on cut lettuce.

Postharvest Biology and Technology, 207, 112577.

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[31]

Crandall, P. G., O'Bryan, C. A., Wang, D., Gibson, K. E., & Obe, T.

Environmental monitoring in food manufacturing: Current perspectives and emerging frontiers.

Food Control, 110269.

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2023

[30]

Zhan, Y., Zhu, J., Schrader, L. C., & Wang, D.

Modeling and optimization of bioenergy production from co-digestion of poultry litter with wheat straw in anaerobic sequencing batch reactor: Response surface methodology and artificial neural network.

Applied Energy, 345, 121373.

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[29]

Xiang, L., & Wang, D.#

A Review of Three-dimensional Vision Techniques in Food and Agriculture Applications.

Smart Agricultural Technology, 100259.

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[28]

Sethu, S., Nathan, S., Wang, D., Jayanthi, D., Seo, H., & Hogan, V. J.

Sensory predictive analysis of freshness of food products under different lighting conditions.

2023 International Conference on Networking and Communications (ICNWC), pp. 1-5. IEEE.

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[27]

Li, Z., Wang, D.*, Zhu, T., Ni, C., & Zhou, C.

SCNet: A deep learning network framework for analyzing near-infrared spectroscopy using short-cut.

Infrared Physics & Technology, 104731.

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[26]

Allotey, D. K., Miezah Kwofie, E., & Wang, D.

Sustainability Implications of Adopting Industry 4.0 at Different Scales in the Poultry Processing Industry.

In Sustainable Manufacturing in Industry 4.0, pp. 143-156. Springer, Singapore.

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[25]

Li, J.*, Wang, D.*, Pottenburgh, J., Bower, A. J., Asanad, S., Lai, W. C., … & Saeedi, O. J.

Visualization of erythrocyte stasis in the living human eye in health and disease.

iScience, 105755.

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2022

[24]

Yeboah, W. O., Kwofie, E. M., & Wang, D.

Circular bioeconomy potential of rice husk as a bioplastic resource: Techno-environmental assessment.

Bioresource Technology Reports, 20, 101248.

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[23]

Sethu, S., & Wang, D.#

A novel illumination condition varied image dataset-Food Vision Dataset (FVD) for fair and reliable consumer acceptability predictions from food.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.06967.

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[22]

Sethu, S., Jayanthi D. & Wang, D.#

A Comprehensive Review of Deep Learning based Illumination Estimation.

preprints.org: 202302.0478.v1

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[21]

Pallerla C., Xiang L. & Wang, D.#

Non-invasive Machine Vision Methods For Fish and Meat Quality Assessment.

Image Processing Applications.

2021

[20]

Wang, C.*, Hevaganinge, A.*, Wang, D.*, Ali, M., Cattaneo, M., and Tao, Y.

Prediction of Aqueous Glucose Concentration Using Hyperspectral Imaging.

2021 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), pp. 3237-3240. IEEE.

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[19]

Le, C., Wang, D., Villanueva R., Liu Z., Hammer D., Tao Y., and Saeedi, O.

Novel Application of Long Short-Term Memory Network for 3D to 2D Retinal Vessel Segmentation in Adaptive Opticsβ€”Optical Coherence Tomography Volumes.

Applied Sciences, 11, no. 20: 9475.

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[18]

Chen, Z., Tsytsarev, V., Finfrock, Y.Z., Antipova, O.A., Cai, Z., Arakawa, H., Lischka, F.W., Hooks, B.M., Wilton, R., Wang, D., Liu, Y., and et.al.

Wireless Optogenetic Modulation of Cortical Neurons Enabled by Radioluminescent Nanoparticles.

ACS nano, 15(3), pp. 5201-5208.

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[17]

Hao, L., Li, C., & Wang, D.

Quantitative analysis of the stacked autoencoder method in MIMO-ACO-OFDM VLC systems.

Lighting Research & Technology, 53(1), 54-73.

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2020

[16]

Wang, D., Haytham, A., Pottenburgh, J., Saeedi, O., & Tao, Y.

Hard attention net for automatic retinal vessel segmentation.

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), 24(12), 3384-3396.

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[15]

Tao, Y., Wang, D.

Deep learning applications in Food.

International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) Scientific Information Bulletin (invited).

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[14]

Ni, C., Li, Z., … & Wang, D.#

Online Sorting of the Film on Cotton Based on Deep Learning and Hyperspectral Imaging.

IEEE Access, 8, 93028-93038.

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[13]

Shi, J., Li, Z., Zhu, T., Wang, D.#, & Ni, C.

Defect detection of industry wood veneer based on NAS and multi-channel mask R-CNN.

Sensors, 20(16), 4398.

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2019

[12]

Wang, D., Haytham, A., … & Saeedi, O.

Automated retinal microvascular velocimetry based on erythrocyte mediated angiography.

Biomedical optics express, 10(7), 3681-3697.

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[11]

Wang, D., Vinson, R., … & Tao, Y.

Early Detection of Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus by Hyperspectral Imaging and Outlier Removal Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Nets (OR-AC-GAN).

Scientific Reports, 9(1), 4377.

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[10]

Ni, C.*, Wang, D.*,#, & Tao, Y.

Variable weighted convolutional neural network for the nitrogen content quantization of Masson pine seedling leaves with near-infrared spectroscopy.

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 209, 32-39.

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[9]

Ni, C.*, Wang, D.*, … & Tao, Y.

Automatic inspection machine for maize kernels based on deep convolutional neural networks.

Biosystems Engineering, 178, 131-144.

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[8]

Hao, L.*, Wang, D.*, et.al.

Performance enhancement of ACO-OFDM-based VLC systems using a hybrid autoencoder scheme.

Optics Communications, 442, 110-116.

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[7]

Hao, L.*, Wang, D.*, et.al.

The Extended SLM Combined Autoencoder of the PAPR Reduction Scheme in DCO-OFDM Systems.

Applied Sciences, 9(5), 852.

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2018

[6]

Wang, D., Vinson, R., … & Tao, Y.

Convolutional neural network guided blue crab knuckle detection for autonomous crab meat picking machine.

Optical Engineering, 57(4), 043103.

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[5]

Ni, C., Zhang, Y., & Wang, D.

Moisture content quantization of Masson pine seedling leaf based on stacked autoencoder with near-infrared spectroscopy.

Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2018, 8696202.

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Before 2018

[4]

Chen, L., & Wang, D.

An improved acquaintance immunization strategy for complex network.

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 385, 58-65. (2015)

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[3]

Wang, M., Chen, L., Li, Q., Wang, D., Liu, Y., Zhang, Y., … & Shang, H.

An adaptive computer-aided tongue diagnosis method using colour-calibration preprocessing and multiple feature synthesis based on Android platform.

International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 9(3), 240-249. (2015)

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[2]

Chen, L., Wang, D., et.al.

A novel automatic tongue image segmentation algorithm: Color enhancement method based on L* a* b* color space.

2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 990-993. IEEE. (2015)

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[1]

Wang, M., Wang, M., Wang, D., et.al.

The syndromes of lung cancer and compatibility of medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine science treatment based on Clustering Algorithm.

2015 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 1070-1077. IEEE. (2015)

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