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Polina Kurtser

Postdoctoral associate with specialization in ML and Robotics. Skilled in Medical Devices, Agricultural Robotics and AI.

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polina.kurtser@umu.se
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Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Computing Science
Location
MIT-huset, Umeå universitet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Associate proffespecialization in ML and Robotics. Skilled in Medical Devices, Agricultural Robotics and AI. Obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Agri-Robotics from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in 2019 folowed by a postdoctoral researh position at the Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS), Örebro. 

Robust scan registration for navigation in forest environment using low-resolution LiDAR sensors
Sensors, MDPI 2023, Vol. 23, (10)
Gupta, Himanshu; Andreasson, Henrik; Lilienthal, Achim J.; et al.
NDT-6D for color registration in agri-robotic applications
Journal of Field Robotics, John Wiley & Sons 2023, Vol. 40, (6) : 1603-1619
Gupta, Himanshu; Lilienthal, Achim J.; Andreasson, Henrik; et al.
RGB-D datasets for robotic perception in site-specific agricultural operations: a survey
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 212
Kurtser, Polina; Lowry, Stephanie
Controlled mechanical stimuli reveal novel associations between basil metabolism and sensory quality
Food Chemistry, Elsevier 2023, Vol. 404, (Part A)
Seeburger, P.; Herdenstam, Anders P. F.; Kurtser, Polina; et al.
Nature versus machine: a pilot study using a semi-trained culinary panel to perform sensory evaluation of robot-cultivated basil affected by mechanically induced stress
International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, Elsevier 2022, Vol. 29
Herdenstam, Anders P. F.; Kurtser, Polina; Swahn, Johan; et al.
Nature versus machine: Sensory evaluation of robot-cultivated basil affected by mechanically induced stress
Elsevier 2022
Herdenstam, Anders P. F.; Kurtser, Polina; Swahn, Johan; et al.
Development of novel robotic platforms for mechanical stress induction, and their effects on plant morphology, elements, and metabolism
Scientific Reports, Springer Nature 2021, Vol. 11, (1)
Kurtser, Polina; Castro Alves, Victor; Arunachalam, Ajay; et al.
Development of a sweet pepper harvesting robot
Journal of Field Robotics, John Wiley & Sons 2020, Vol. 37, (6) : 1027-1039
Arad, Boaz; Balendonck, Jos; Barth, Ruud; et al.
Planning the sequence of tasks for harvesting robots
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 131
Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Robotic Platform for Precise Mechanical Stress Induction in Greenhouses Cultivation
2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), IEEE 2020 : 1558-1565
Kurtser, Polina; Hanell, Ulf; Andreasson, Henrik
PointNet and geometric reasoning for detection of grape vines from single frame RGB-D data in outdoor conditions
Proceedings of the Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop, Septentrio Academic Publishing 2020 : 1-6
Kurtser, Polina; Ringdahl, Ola; Rotstein, Nati; et al.
In-field grape cluster size assessment for vine yield estimation using a mobile robot and a consumer level RGB-D camera
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE 2020, Vol. 5, (2) : 2031-2038
Kurtser, Polina; Ringdahl, Ola; Rotstein, Nati; et al.
Crop design for improved robotic harvesting: a case study of sweet pepper harvesting
Biosystems Engineering, Elsevier 2020, Vol. 192 : 294-308
van Herck, Liesbet; Kurtser, Polina; Wittemans, Lieve; et al.
Controlled Lighting and Illumination-Independent Target Detection for Real-Time Cost-Efficient Applications: The Case Study of Sweet Pepper Robotic Harvesting
Sensors, MDPI 2019, Vol. 19, (6)
Arad, Boaz; Kurtser, Polina; Barnea, Ehud; et al.
Mobile apps and employee behavior: An empirical investigation of the implementation of a fleet-management app
International Journal of Information Management, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 49 : 355-365
Levi-Bliech, Michal; Kurtser, Polina; Pliskin, Nava; et al.
Evaluation of approach strategies for harvesting robots: case study of sweet pepper harvesting
Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer Netherlands 2019, Vol. 95, (1) : 149-164
Ringdahl, Ola; Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Performance of RGB-D camera for different object types in greenhouse conditions
2019 European conference on mobile robots (ECMR): conference proceedings September 4- 6, 2019 Prague Czech Republic
Ringdahl, Ola; Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Automatic Parameter Tuning for Adaptive Thresholding in Fruit Detection
Sensors, MDPI 2019, Vol. 19, (9)
Zemmour, Elie; Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Statistical models for fruit detectability: spatial and temporal analyses of sweet peppers
Biosystems Engineering, Academic Press 2018, Vol. 171 : 272-289
Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
The use of dynamic sensing strategies to improve detection for a pepper harvesting robot
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE 2018 : 8286-8293
Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
The effects of a fleet-management app on driver behavior
26th European Conference on Information Systems: Beyond Digitization - Facets of Socio-Technical Change, ECIS 2018
Levi-Bliech, Michal; Kurtser, Polina; Pliskin, Nava; et al.
Strategies for selecting best approach direction for a sweet-pepper harvesting robot
Towards autonomous robotic systems: 18th annual conference, TAROS 2017, Guildford, UK, July 19–21, 2017, proceedings, Cham: Springer 2017 : 516-525
Ringdahl, Ola; Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Dynamic thresholding algorithm for robotic apple detection
2017 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), IEEE 2017 : 240-246
Zemmour, Elie; Kurtser, Polina; Edan, Yael
Sweet pepper maturity evaluation via multiple viewpoints color analyses
CIGR-AgEng Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, June 26-29, 2016.
Harel, Ben; Kurtser, Polina; van Herck, Liesbet; et al.
Robotic data acquisition of sweet pepper images for research and development
The 5th Israeli Conference on Robotics 2016, Air Force Conference Center Hertzilya, Israel, April 13-14, 2016.
Kurtser, Polina; Arad, Boaz; Ben-Shahar, Ohad; et al.
Operational flow of an autonomous sweetpepper harvesting robot
The 5th Israeli Conference on Robotics 2016, Air Force Conference Center Hertzilya, Israel, April 13-14, 2016.
Ringdahl, Ola; Kurtser, Polina; Barth, Ruud; et al.
Detection and classification of ECG chaotic components using ANN trained by specially simulated data
Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2012 : 193-202
Kurtser, Polina; Levi, Ofer; Gontar, Vladimir
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Research groups

Group member
Tufve Nyholm Lab

Experienced Lecturer and Teaching Assistant in Statistics and Operations Research