Ashok Samal is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. He received Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and Ph.D. from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. His research interests include computer vision and data mining, and he has published extensively in these areas. More recently, he has focused on plant phenotyping and co-leads the Plant Vision Initiative research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sruti Das Choudhury is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an Early Career Research Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick, UK. She received Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from the West Bengal University of Technology and Master of Technology in Computer Science and Application from the University of Calcutta, India. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Warwick, UK. Her research focus is on biometrics, data science, and most recently, image-based plant phenotyping analysis. She co-leads the Plant Vision Initiative research group at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.