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Zongmei Gao is a prominent researcher specializing in agricultural computer vision, machine learning, and intelligent robotic harvesting systems. Her work focuses on developing and refining deep learning-based detection and segmentation methods to enable autonomous agricultural robots to identify, locate, and harvest crops with high precision in complex real-world environments. Gao's most celebrated contribution is her application of YOLO-based architectures to agricultural challenges, most notably her 2022 study on tea bud identification and picking-point detection using YOLOv3, which has garnered over 106 citations and established her as a leading voice in smart tea harvesting technology. She has extended these methodologies to other challenging crops, including litchi fruits and Sichuan peppers, addressing persistent difficulties such as occlusion, variable illumination, and complex field backgrounds. Her 2024 work on green fruit detection introduces innovative approaches drawing from camouflage object detection and multilevel feature mining, demonstrating her commitment to pushing methodological boundaries. With a growing body of work encompassing semantic segmentation, cloud-platform integration, and lightweight neural network design, Gao's research collectively advances the automation of labor-intensive harvesting tasks, contributing meaningfully to sustainable agricultural development and the broader field of precision agriculture.