Villanelle O'Reilly
Cohort 1 (2024/25)
University of Lincoln
Supervisors
Prof Marc Hanheide (University of Lincoln), Prof Georgios Leontidis (University of Aberdeen)
Project
Robotics and AI to Support Scalable Agronomy (RAISSA)
About Me
Exploring a simulated tactile SLAM system in my undergraduate dissertation gave me a taste for research, and I joined the CDT as an opportunity to learn about and engage in research full-time! My favourite thing about Lincoln is the collaboration between the agricultural and compsci schools. Having access to a farm emulating a commercial environment and a well established robotics research centre will I'm sure make for some very good datasets! My PhD project is exploring anomaly detection on hyperspectral spatio-temporal data in agriculture, initially looking at strawberry crops. In my spare time, I enjoy playing tabletop role-playing games and Minecraft!
Research Interests
Computer vision anomaly detection, robotics and autonomous systems, machine learning, self-supervised learning and hyperspectral imaging.