Multimodal Artificial Intelligence in Precision Agriculture: Practices, Challenges, and Applications
暫譯: 精準農業中的多模態人工智慧：實踐、挑戰與應用

這本書強調雲端、邊緣和網路計算在可持續農業中的整合，以及智慧農業的未來趨勢，包括無人機（UAV）、5G 和先進人工智慧的角色。它涵蓋了使用即時環境數據來預測和追蹤農產品及牲畜健康監測。

- 提供對物聯網（Internet of Things）、人工智慧（artificial intelligence）和多模態智慧（multimodal intelligence）在精準農業中的整合的詳細探討，涵蓋從作物管理到牲畜監測的廣泛應用。
- 確認並討論在農業中使用人工智慧和多模態數據的挑戰，提供解決方案和技術以克服這些障礙。討論先進技術，如多光譜和高光譜成像、物聯網感測器和數據融合技術。
- 突出智慧農業中的新興趨勢和未來方向，包括無人機（UAV）、5G、雲邊連續體整合和聯邦學習（federated learning）。
- 包含案例研究和實際範例，展示多模態人工智慧在精準農業中的成功應用。

本書主要針對電機工程、電子與通信工程、計算機科學與工程、農業工程及資訊科技的高年級本科生、研究生和學術研究人員撰寫。

Abhilasha Sharma is currently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Computer Engineering, at National institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. She has published research papers and articles in high-impact journals and international conferences of repute including Computer Networks, Computer Communications, wireless personal communication etc. She has taught 3 postgraduate courses including machine learning, Cloud Computing and Security, and deep learning. Her research interests include cyber physical systems, wireless networks, vehicular communication, and software-defined networks.

Vishwas Rathi is currently as an assistant professor, in the Department of Computer Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. He has authored research papers in renowned venues such as IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Signal Processing: Image Communication, and IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Challenges and Workshops. His research interests encompass image processing, computational imaging and forensics, multispectral imaging systems, and applied deep learning.

Anupam Biswas is presently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at the National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. He has published over 100 research papers in prestigious international journals, conferences, and book chapters, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Social Computing, Elsevier Information Fusion, Elsevier Information Sciences, and Expert Systems with Applications, among others. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, evolutionary computation, social networks, and information retrieval.

Anil Singh is presently working as an assistant professor, in the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computing, Umea University, Sweden. He has authored research papers and articles in high-impact journals and internationally reputed conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Software: Practice and Experience, Cluster Computing, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, among others. He has also taught around 8 postgraduate courses, such as cloud infrastructure and services, agile software methodology, advanced computer architecture, advance data structures, among others. His research interests include cloud-edge-fog systems, edge artificial intelligence, energy efficiency, and distributed computing resource management.

Omer Rana is a Dean of International for the Physical Sciences and Engineering College, and a Professor of Performance Engineering with Cardiff University, Cardiff, U.K. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed papers and articles in high-impact journals and internationally reputed conferences, including IEEE Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Software: Practice and Experience, ACM computing surveys, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Cluster Computing, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, among others. His current research interests include problem solving environments for computational science and commercial computing, data analysis and management for large-scale computing, and scalability in high performance agent systems.

Abhilasha Sharma 目前擔任印度庫魯克舍特拉國立技術學院計算機工程系的助理教授。她在高影響力的期刊和國際會議上發表了多篇研究論文和文章，包括《計算機網絡》、《計算機通信》、《無線個人通信》等。她教授過三門研究生課程，包括機器學習、雲計算與安全以及深度學習。她的研究興趣包括網絡物理系統、無線網絡、車輛通信和軟體定義網絡。

Vishwas Rathi 目前擔任印度庫魯克舍特拉國立技術學院計算機工程系的助理教授。他在知名的期刊上發表過研究論文，如《IEEE計算成像期刊》、《IEEE信號處理快報》、《信號處理：影像通信》和《IEEE國際影像處理挑戰與研討會》。他的研究興趣涵蓋影像處理、計算成像與取證、多光譜影像系統以及應用深度學習。

Anupam Biswas 目前擔任印度阿薩姆邦西爾查國立技術學院計算機科學與工程系的助理教授。他在多個國際知名期刊、會議和書籍章節上發表了超過100篇研究論文，包括《IEEE模糊系統期刊》、《IEEE社會計算期刊》、《Elsevier信息融合》、《Elsevier信息科學》和《應用專家系統》等。他的研究興趣包括機器學習、深度學習、演化計算、社交網絡和信息檢索。

Anil Singh 目前擔任印度帕提亞拉的塔帕爾工程技術學院電子與通信工程系的助理教授。他曾在瑞典烏梅亞大學計算系擔任博士後研究員。他在高影響力的期刊和國際知名會議上發表了多篇研究論文和文章，包括《IEEE服務計算期刊》、《軟體：實踐與經驗》、《集群計算》和《IEEE/ACM國際公用事務與雲計算會議》等。他還教授過約8門研究生課程，如雲基礎設施與服務、敏捷軟體方法論、高級計算機架構和高級數據結構等。他的研究興趣包括雲-邊緣-霧系統、邊緣人工智慧、能源效率和分散式計算資源管理。

Omer Rana 是英國卡迪夫大學物理科學與工程學院的國際院長及性能工程教授。他在高影響力的期刊和國際知名會議上發表了超過700篇經過同行評審的論文和文章，包括《IEEE雲計算》、《IEEE服務計算期刊》、《軟體：實踐與經驗》、《ACM計算調查》、《ACM互聯網技術期刊》、《集群計算》和《IEEE/ACM國際公用事務與雲計算會議》等。他目前的研究興趣包括計算科學和商業計算的問題解決環境、大規模計算的數據分析與管理，以及高性能代理系統的可擴展性。