Tree-ring research (TRR) in South America (SA) continues to make important contributions in multiple sub-disciplines, including dendrochemistry and dendrohydrology. This report describes some of the advances in TRR in SA presented in a two-day International Meeting Research entitled "An International Network to Promote Advances in Dendrochronology in South America", organized by the Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Environmental Studies of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso in Valparaíso, Chile, on January 21-22, 2019. The objective of the meeting was to communicate recent advances in TRR within a network of laboratories in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Uruguay. Novel methodologies and results in dendrochemistry and wood anatomy were also presented by collaborating researchers from German institutions. This report describes some of the research within the subdisci...

Texture is an important visual property which has been largely employed for image characterization. Recently, Convolutional Networks has been the predominant approach on Computer Vision, and their application on texture analysis shows interesting results. However, their popularity steers around object recognition, and several convolutional architectures have been proposed and trained for this task. Therefore, this works evaluates 17 of the most diffused Deep Convolutional Neural Networks when employed for texture analysis as feature extractors. Image descriptors are obtained through Global Average Pooling over the output of the last convolutional layer of networks with random weights or learned from the ImageNet dataset. The analysis is performed under 6 texture datasets and using 3 different supervised classifiers (KNN, LDA, and SVM). Results using networks with random weights indicates...