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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Jun 26

YESSS! After a year of hard work at ForestryAI@NIBIO, #ForestFormer3D is out 🥳!

Our new #SOTA transformer model 🔥 tackles tough 3D forest scenes with semantic + instance segmentation — all in one! 🌳🤖 Works across LiDAR sources (ground/airborne) 🚀

Check it out 👇

#SingleTree #AI #Forestry

SmartForest4.0 @smartforest.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌲🚀 Big leap in #SmartForest AI!

Meet #ForestFormer3D – our new SOTA model for 3D forest segmentation (semantic + instance)! 🌳

🔗 Preprint arxiv.org/abs/2506.16991
🔗 Project bxiang233.github.io/FF3D/

👏 Led by Binbin Xiang + team @NIBIO

#AI #Forestry #SOTA

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Jun 6

📢 We’re hiring a #Postdoc for SmartForest4.0 at NIBIO in Ås!

Work on AI-based decision support for sustainable forestry using LLMs, CV & agent systems.

PhD req.

Apply by June 8 www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

#postdoc #openposition #openpostdoc #computer_vision #machine_learning… | SmartForest4.0

📢 💥 We are hiring a #Postdoc for SmartForest4.0 at NIBIO in Ås! 💡 🌲 Do you want to work with us on developing and implementing AI models for decision support in sustainable forestry. This will includ...

www.linkedin.com

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SingleTree project @singletreeeu.bsky.social · May 19

🌲‪@singletreeeu.bsky.social‬ project was proudly represented at the 25th Swiss Global Change Day #SGCD25 by Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research.

Check out our poster presented 👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/single...

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 Postdoc in Computer Vision & AI!
Love forests & you are a CV ninja? Join #SmartForest at #NIBIO to build vision models for full ecosystem understanding 🌲🤖

🔥 we offer A100s, unique EU dataset, fun team

📍 Ås, Norway |

🗓 Apply by June 8 👇
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#ForestAI #DeepLearning

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Climate AI Nordics @climateainordics.com · May 15

Big thanks to all speakers and participants who joined the first Nordic Workshop on AI for Climate Change in Gothenburg, a great success! 🌍💡

Next year’s workshop is already set: June 26, 2026 in Copenhagen 🇩🇰, hosted by our core team at KU & the Pioneer Centre for AI.

Let's keep up the momentum! ⚡️

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · May 15

Great fun and great people. Looking forward to next year’s edition!

Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Apr 2

💻 code: github.com/Paulineemu/V...

GitHub - Paulineemu/VegCover

Contribute to Paulineemu/VegCover development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Apr 2

📸 data: zenodo.org/records/1336...

Towards Enhancing Field-Based Vegetation Monitoring: A Deep Learning Approach for Species Identification and Coverage Estimation from Ground-level Imagery

🌿Species Identification and Coverage Estimation from Ground-level Imagery for Vegetation Monitoring 📷 This repository contains the data and code used in Müller, Puliti, and Breidenbach (2025) to train...

zenodo.org

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Apr 2

📄 paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Towards enhancing field‐based vegetation monitoring: A deep learning approach for species coverage estimation from ground‐level imagery

Field-based vegetation mapping is important for environmental assessments. Often, the area covered by a species is estimated visually within a reference frame. However, such assessments are prone ...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚨 New #MEE paper! We used #YOLOv8 & smartphone 📷 from Norway’s #NFI to estimate blueberry 🍇& lingonberry 🍒 cover. First step in our #NFI_AI series, showing it's not just about spotting species but quantifying them too!

Huge kudos to Pauline Müller for a ✨MSc thesis!

see 👇 for resources

#AI4Nature

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AI + Environment Summit Zurich @ai-env-summit.bsky.social · Feb 10

🚀 Save the date: AI + Environment Summit Zurich 2025 🌍🤖

We’re thrilled to announce that the 3rd edition of the AI & Environment Summit will take place on October 1st, 2025! 🎉

🔹 What? A full-day event to inspire, ignite and innovate work in AI for the environment.
🔹 When? October 1st, 2025

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SingleTree project @singletreeeu.bsky.social · Feb 21

🌳How can digital technologies and single-tree information revolutionize forest-based value chains?

🤖 Discover how the @singletreeeu.bsky.social is driving sustainability and innovation in forestry!

🔗https://singletree.eu/

#ForestryInnovation #RemoteSensing #AI #CBEresearch #EUforest

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Feb 11

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Climate AI Nordics starter pack

Join the conversation

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Feb 5

Hei, er du en forsker innen #AI #KI #Klima #Miljø #Natur 🌍🍃🐻🌲🐛🐠?

Da bør du bli med i Climate AI Nordics, et ungt og dynamisk fellesskap av AI-talenter 🚀 på tvers av Norden 🇳🇴🇫🇮🇸🇪🇩🇰

Climate AI Nordics @climateainordics.com · Feb 5

Announcing Climate AI Nordics core team:

@mogren.ml,
@aleksispi.bsky.social
🇸🇪 Francesca Larosa, KTH
🇩🇰 @ankitky.bsky.social
🇳🇴 @stefanopuliti.bsky.social
🇫🇮 Hilda Sandström, Aalto University
🇸🇪 @johnmartinsson.org
🇳🇴 Sigrid P. Hellan, NORCE / @bjerknes.bsky.social

climateainordics.com/about/

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Feb 5

Thanks for joining the competition ! It’s been a fun paper 🎊

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Feb 3

🚀 FOR-species20K is out in Methods in Ecology & Evolution! 🥳 20K trees, 33 species—the largest dataset for tree species classification from TLS/MLS/ULS! 🌲🌳🎄 #OpenScience

📰 paper: tinyurl.com/2w3nm86d
💾 data: zenodo.org/records/1325...
💻 code: tinyurl.com/42r8ea7p
🎯 benchmark: tinyurl.com/2zrfpzhr

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hey #CVPR folks! What does this mean?

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Raphael Viscarra Rossel @ravr19.bsky.social · Dec 26

Good piece by @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The erosion of thinking time—driven by admin, bureaucracy, industry agendas, and unrealistic output targets—stifles curiosity-led science. These pressures undermine innovation and the intellectual freedom vital for real progress. 🧪🌱🌍 #ScienceIsNotBusiness

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Stefano Puliti @stefanopuliti.bsky.social · Dec 22

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Sara Beery @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social · Dec 13

📢📢 Happening today at #NeurIPS2024!

Eddie Vendrow and I will be presenting INQUIRE: A Natural World Text-to-Image Retrieval Benchmark

East Exhibit Hall A-C #4510
Fri 13 Dec 11 a.m. — 2 p.m. PST
arxiv.org/abs/2411.02537

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