Nuria Aleixos
Papers
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Total Citations
880
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About
Nuria Aleixos is a pioneering researcher in agricultural automation, machine vision, and precision horticulture, whose work has fundamentally advanced the intersection of computer vision and smart farming. Best known for her groundbreaking 2003 paper on machine vision systems for automatic fruit quality grading — now cited over 330 times — Aleixos has dedicated her career to developing intelligent, automated systems that transform how crops are inspected, classified, and managed. Her extensive contributions to citrus fruit inspection, documented in both field-based mobile platforms and comprehensive review articles, have established her as a leading authority in postharvest automation. In more recent years, Aleixos has expanded into agricultural robotics, leading the development of innovative field robots such as RobHortic and Xf-Rovim, which deploy proximal sensing technologies — including hyperspectral and multispectral imaging — to detect pests, diseases, and bacterial infections like Xylella fastidiosa in olive trees. Her 2017 work integrating tactile sensing with near-infrared spectroscopy in a robotic gripper further demonstrates her creative, interdisciplinary approach. With a research career spanning over two decades and hundreds of citations, Aleixos continues to shape the future of precision agriculture and intelligent sensing systems.
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Top Papers
- 1Machine Vision System for Automatic Quality Grading of Fruit332 citations · 2003
- 2AE—Automation and Emerging Technologies149 citations · 2002
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- 8A Survey of Bayesian Techniques in Computer Vision2 citations · 2010
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