Funded Projects
Ministry of Agriculture
Grants from the National Science and Technology Council, technology programmes of the Ministry of Agriculture, and industry partnerships, carried through to validation in industry and in the field.
8grants
Ministry of Agriculture
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2025Ministry of Agriculture
Intelligent automation and service value-add for poultry production and marketing
Integration of modules for poultry vocalisation alerts, light-beam disturbance, production management advisory systems, disease consultation, humane stunning and a digital production and distribution platform.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Project team member
- Award
- NT$ 10,170,000
- Grant no.
- PW11408-0477
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2025Ministry of Agriculture
Classification of soybean waterlogging resilience based on machine vision and data analysis
Physiological indicators, hyperspectral imaging and deep learning detect early leaf chlorosis in soybean under flooding stress, below the threshold of visual inspection.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Award
- NT$ 640,000
- Grant no.
- 114農科-1.3.2-科-21
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2025Ministry of Agriculture
Deep learning based image recognition of livestock and poultry carcasses
Remote cameras and embedded systems at two rendering plants capture images of dead livestock and poultry as collection vehicles enter the frame, building an annotated dataset for deep-learning recognition models.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Award
- NT$ 1,500,000
- Grant no.
- PW11408-0845
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2025Ministry of Agriculture
Multi-module integration for poultry production management and disease consultation
Poultry production management and disease consultation modules are integrated into a traceable production and health database across breeds and sites, forming the basis for early-warning algorithms.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Award
- NT$ 1,500,000
- Grant no.
- PW11412-0919
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2025Ministry of Agriculture
Strengthening education and inspection resources for food and agriculture education
Teaching and testing resources for food and agriculture education: a meat processing classroom, pest identification and biopesticides, a hyperspectral agricultural inspection platform, halal food testing and a virtual animal dissection teaching system.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Project team member
- Award
- NT$ 11,365,000
- Grant no.
- PW11412-0929
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2024Ministry of Agriculture
Intelligent automation of poultry production and marketing
Vocalisation alerts, smart poultry houses, inspection robots for layer houses and spectral egg quality assessment are introduced to improve efficiency, product quality and animal welfare in the poultry industry.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Project team member
- Award
- NT$ 12,230,000
- Grant no.
- 113農科-11.1.3-牧-01(Z)
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2024NCHU internal grant
Intelligent dairy cow management based on objective body condition assessment and automated image recognition
Automated image analysis replaces subjective body condition scoring, quantifying the gap between subjective and objective measurement and predicting body condition trends with machine learning.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Grant no.
- 113ST001H
- Agri & Livestock
Ministry of Agriculture2024Ministry of Agriculture
Automated Pachira aquatica health inspection with machine vision and sorting mechanism
Machine vision assesses the health of Malabar chestnut seedlings alongside a conveyor and sorting mechanism: visible and thermal image features are compared under different illumination, with the recognition model deployed on a PLC-controlled line.
- PI
- Wen-Lin Chu
- Role
- Principal Investigator
- Award
- NT$ 850,000
- Grant no.
- PW11308-1666