Tony Moura Salgueiro
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The Vitibox sensor, a dark green case with yellow lights and a GPS antenna, mounted on a tracked vehicle at the end of a vine row, under a blue sky.

● careerDec 2024 — present

Vitivisio, computer vision in the vineyard

role
Data engineer · AI and computer vision
company
Vitivisio

The company

Vitivisio builds a precision viticulture solution that combines a vision sensor, artificial intelligence and an online platform. The principle: observe every vine during mechanised work, analyse the images with computer vision, and return the information as maps and histories, on a computer, tablet or smartphone. The climate weakens the vine; data becomes a decision tool.

Vitivisio's chain: the Vitibox sensor, mounted on any machine, photographs every vine with a centimetre-level RTK position; vision models detect, count and classify; the eVitivisio platform returns the results as maps.

The sensor

The Vitibox fits any vineyard machine: tractor, straddle tractor, tracked vehicle, quad or robot. As it passes, it photographs every vine, lit by its own lights, and geolocates each image to the centimetre with RTK GPS.

A tracked vineyard robot fitted with the Vitibox sensor, parked at the edge of a field, with the plain and a blue sky behind.
The Vitibox on a vineyard robot, at a demonstration in Saint-Amand-sur-Fion.

My work

Since December 2024, I have been working on the artificial intelligence and vision side: the chain that turns the sensor's images into useful information. Building and preparing the vine image datasets, training and evaluating the detection models, and making sure their results reach the winegrowers' maps, reliably.

A photo of a vine taken at night by the sensor, lit by its lights: bunches boxed in red by the model, each with a confidence score between 0.90 and 0.97.
Automatic bunch detection, in Champagne.

The analyses cover bunch counting, mapping dead and missing vines, the vine's vigour and balance, tracking decline, and scouting for flavescence dorée, a vine disease under mandatory control.

The platform

The results arrive in eVitivisio: the whole vineyard seen from above, plot by plot (Vitiparcel), every geolocated image viewable on site, from a smartphone (Vitiview), and the analyses rendered as maps (Vitimap).

eVitivisio's home screen: an aerial view of a vineyard with the monitored plots coloured in red, with indicators and the list of acquisitions.
The vineyard in eVitivisio.
A plot seen from above, each vine marked with a green, yellow or red dot by its condition, with a photo of a vine beside it.
Every vine, on the plot.
A vine row highlighted in green on an aerial view, with the photo of the selected vine beside it.
A row, and the image of every vine.

Photos and screenshots: © Vitivisio.