Dept. of Sustainable Bioproducts
Mississippi State University
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This New AI Forensic Tool is Fighting Illegal Logging
Renew September 2019
Want to Identify Wood Species? This Device Does It in Two Seconds
UNIDO SUPPORTS GHANA TIMBER INDUSTRY WITH XYLOTRON FUNDED BY SWISS GOVERNMENT (SECO)
Publications
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Recent Publications
Costa, A., Giraldo, G., Bishell, A., He, T., Kirker, G., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2022. Organellar microcapture to extract nuclear and plastid DNA from recalcitrant wood specimens and trace evidence. Plant Methods 18(51): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-022-00885-z
Ravindran, P., Wade, A. C., Owens, F. C., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2022. Towards sustainable North American wood product value chains, Part 2: Computer vision identification of ring-porous hardwoods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 52:1-14. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0077
Ravindran, P., Wade, A. C., Owens, F. C., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft , A. C. 2022. Towards sustainable North American wood product value chains, Part I: Computer vision identification of diffuse porous hardwoods. Frontiers in Plant Science 12(758455). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.758455
Ravindran, P., Owens, F. C., Wade, A. C., Vega, P., Montenegro, R. A., Shmulsky, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2021. Field-deployable computer vision wood identification of Peruvian timbers. Frontiers in Plant Science 12(647515). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.647515
Ravindran, P., Thompson, B. J., Soares, R. K., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2020. The XyloTron: flexible, open-source, image-based macroscopic field identification of wood products. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11(1015). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.01015
Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2020. The XyloPhone: toward democratizing access to high-quality macroscopic imaging for wood and other substrates. IAWA Journal 41(4), 699-719. https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-bja10043
Wiedenhoeft, A. C., Simeone, J., Smith, A., Parker-Forney, M., Soares, R., Fishman, A. 2019. Fraud and misrepresentation in retail forest products exceeds U.S forensic wood science capacity. PLOS ONE 14(7): e0219917. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219917
Ravindran, P., Ebanyenle, E., Ebeheakey, A. A., Abban, K. B., Lambog, O., Soares, R., Costa, A., Wiedenhoeft, A. 2019. Image based identification of Ghanaian timbers using the XyloTron: opportunities, risks and challenges. In: 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada.
Ravindran, P., Costa, A., Soares, R., Wiedenhoeft, A. C. 2018. Classification of CITES-listed and other neotropical Meliaceae wood images using convolutional neural networks. Plant Methods 14, 25 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-018-0292-9