16.15 – 16.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.15 – 9.30 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Check-In + Welcome
Cyrill Stachniss & Heiner Kuhlmann (PhenoRob, University of Bonn)
16.30 – 17.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.30 – 10.15 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 1 – Peter Groot Koerkamp
Peter Groot Koerkamp (Wageningen University & Research)
A Systems’ Perspective on Robotization
Moderator: Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn)
17.15 – 18.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 – 11.00 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Parallel Sessions + Discussion
Room 1
Panel Discussion: Precision Robotic Harvesting in Cluttered Environments
Federico Magistri (Laudando & Associates LLC)
Improving robotic fruit harvesting within cluttered environments through 3D shape completion
Kendall Koe (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Precision harvesting in cluttered environments: Integrating end effector design with dual camera perception
Shaoxiong Yao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Safe leaf manipulation for accurate shape and pose estimation of occluded fruits
Moderator: Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn)
Room 2
Panel Discussion: AI for Decision Support and Farm Management
Giorgio Morales, John Sheppard (Montana State University)
Counterfactual analysis of neural networks used to create fertilizer management zones
Anna Massfeller (University of Bonn)
The effect of algorithm aversion on farmers’ intention to use decision support tools in crop management
Marit Hendrickx (KU Leuven)
Predicting soil moisture and optimizing irrigation scheduling with SWIM²
Moderator: Niklas Möhring (University of Bonn)
Room 3
Panel Discussion: AI and Genetics in Crop Breeding
Eva Maria Molin (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Can AI revolutionize winter wheat breeding?
Alexander Lipka (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Quantifying evidence for the omnigenic genetic architecture through a simulation study
Maria Lackmann, Meltem Cantürk (University of Bonn)
SmartBeans Project: Using prebreeding approaches in dry edible bean Phaselous vulgaris: from genetic resource to contemporary nutritional crop
Moderator: Annaliese Mason (University of Bonn)
18.00 – 18.45 (CEST, UTC+2)/11.00 – 11.45 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Parallel Sessions + Discussion
Room 1
Panel Discussion: Environmental Monitoring and Climate Smart Solutions
Jakob Wachter (Vista GmbH)
EO4CarbonFarming – A tool for monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon farming
Paulina Englert (University of Bonn)
Quantifying N2O fluxes with eddy covariance
Franziska Brohmeyer (Vista GmbH)
VariableRain – Resource-conserving irrigation providing optimal yield based on information services
Moderator: Carl Bernacchi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Room 2
Panel Discussion: Precision Data Management and Resource Optimization in Agriculture
Sven Gedicke (University of Bonn)
Light-weight algorithms for in-field data quality assessment in agricultural science
Jonathan Cox, Riccardo Polvara (University of Lincoln)
AGRIDS an integrated framework for vineyard data management and robotic deployment
Denizard Bueno (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
GMA as a pre breeding tool: Using spatial data to improve findings for tomato plant architecture breeding (Solanum lycopersicum L.)
Moderator: Afef Marzougui (ETH Zurich)
Room 3
Panel Discussion: Machine Learning and Modeling in Plant Genetics and Phenotyping
Marion Pitz (University of Bonn)
How well do GWAS methods perform on TWAS data?
Talissa Floriani (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
The role of ML in genetic association studies
Lucas Casuccio (University of Bonn)
Estimating leaf chlorophyll content from simulated imagery using 3D radiative transfer and machine learning
Moderator: Francisco Pinto Espinosa (Wageningen University & Research)
18.45 – 19.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/11.45 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 2 – Hannah M. Schneider
Hannah M. Schneider (IPK Gatersleben, University of Göttingen)
Integrated Root Cortical Tissues for Enhanced Drought Tolerance
Moderator: Andrea Schnepf (University of Bonn)
19.30 – 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/12.30 – 1.15 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Parallel Sessions + Discussion
Room 1
Panel Discussion: UAV Mapping and Optimization in Precision Agriculture
Jacob Swindell (University of Lincoln)
Discrete gaussian process representations for optimising drone-based precision weed mapping
Sicong Pan (University of Bonn)
Global optimization for view motion planning in fruit mapping
Kaiwen Wang (Wageningen University & Research)
UAV-based 3D monocular panoptic mapping for fruit shape completion in orchards
Moderator: Lasse Klingbeil (University of Bonn)
Room 2
Panel Discussion: Monitoring and Disease Detection
Yeshambel Emewodih Mihiret (University of Bonn)
Combined approaches to establish efficient strategies for non/semi-invasive diagnosis of nutrient imbalances in barley
Zhen Cao (Wageningen University & Research)
An edge offloading strategy to improve real-time grape bunch segmentation and tracking with a UAV
Tianyi Jia (Wageningen University & Research)
Potato plant disease detection by integrating UAV-based hyperspectral and RGB imagery
Moderator: Gerrit Polder (Wageningen University & Research)
Room 3
Panel Discussion: Advanced Genomics and Phenotyping for Crop Improvement
Jenifer Camila Godoy dos Santos (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Integrating transcriptomic data into genomic selection models to improve maize hybrid prediction in multi-environment trials
Leonardo da Costa (Federal University of Lavras)
Enhancing genotype predictions in Eucalyptus urophylla through environmental covariates and genotype-by-environment interactions
Lukas Krusenbaum (University of Bonn)
Rice root imaging and phenotyping for large scale characterization of rice genetic resources
Moderator: Alexander Lipka (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
20.15 – 21.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/1.15 – 2.00 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 3 – Stefano Mintchev
Stefano Mintchev (ETH Zurich)
Interactive Drones for Biodiversity Monitoring
Moderator: Gert Kootstra (Wageningen University & Research)
21.00 – 21.05 (CEST, UTC+2)/2.00 – 2.05 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Closing Remarks
Vikram Adve (AIFARMS, CDA)