Program for the Live Event from March 28 to 30, 2022

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Marija Popović (University of Bonn)
Agriculture with Intelligent Robots: Mapping and Planning for Active Sensing
Paper Pal: Cyrill Stachniss

Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Learned Visual Navigation for Under-Canopy Agricultural Robots
Paper Pal: Chen Peng

Duke Pauli (University of Arizona)
Phenomics Data: From Spreadsheets to Virtual Reality (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Daniel Runcie

Maurice Fallon (University of Oxford)
Towards Real-Time Forest Inventory with Mobile Robotic Mapping (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Chris McCool

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Jana Kierdorf (University of Bonn)
GrowliFlower: A time series dataset for GROWth analysis of cauLIFLOWER
Paper Pal: Ixchel M. Hernández-Ochoa

Zbyněk Malenovský (University of Bonn)
Potentials of 3D radiative transfer modelling in plant phenotyping (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Ribana Roscher

Heike Bach/Franziska Brohmeyer (Q&A) (Vista)
Digital Twins for Sustainable Fertilization
Paper Pal: Heiner Kuhlmann

Xin Liu (University of California Davis)
Autonomous Greenhouse Control: A Bayesian Optimization and Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Md Shamim Ahamed

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Asheesh Singh (Iowa State University / AIIRA)
Soybean yield improvement strategies with digital technologies (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Thomas Döring

Marion Deichmann (University of Bonn)
An experimental system to develop non-invasive detection methods of nutrient deficiencies in field crops
Paper Pal: Uwe Rascher

Sibghat Ullah (FZ Jülich)
Rhizosphere processes and yield decline in wheat crop rotations (RhizoWheat)
Paper Pal: Thomas Gaiser

Joshua Viers (University of California, Merced)
AI for Ag for the San Joaquin Valley: using inclusive innovation to break the productivity paradox (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Carsten Montzka

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Soumik Sarkar (Iowa State University / AIIRA)
Role of Interpretable Machine Learning in Cyber-Agricultural Systems (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Christian Bauckhage

Sumer Johal (Ag Stack)
Ag-Net: The case for building and maintaining an open-source tagged image repository for Machine Learning for Agriculture applications
Paper Pal: Xin Liu

Emre Mengi et al. (University of California Berkeley)
MLA Applications for Agricultural Production (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Zhenghao Fei

Mason Earles (University of California Davis)
AgML: Building an open framework for AgML data, models & evaluation (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Jens Behley

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Steve Fennimore (University of California Davis)
Automated Weed Removal Technologies Greatly Improve the Resilience of Vegetable Weed Management Programs (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Ali Moghimi

Elias Maritan/ James Lowenberg-DeBoer (Q&A) (Harper Adams University)
Economically optimal farmer supervision of crop robots
Paper Pal: Aaron Smith

Thomas Daum (University of Hohenheim)
Farm robots: ecological utopia or dystopia
Paper Pal: Matin Qaim

Alexander Langer (Schmiede.one)
Labor shortages and robotic automation in root crop farming
Paper Pal: Sven Behnke

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 28, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Tsu-Wei Chen (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
The functions of phenotypic plasticity in plant-plant interactions and canopy productivity (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Ulrich Schurr

Grégoire Hummel (Phenospex)
Towards digital agriculture
Paper Pal: Marija Popović

Fabio Fiorani (FZ Jülich)
Analysis and exploitation of phenotypic diversity in Chilean quinoa germplasm (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Heiner Kuhlmann

Baskar Ganapathysubramaniam (Iowa State University / AIIRA)
Plant phenotyping with limited annotation: Doing more with less (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Zbyněk Malenovský

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 29, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Gert Kootstra (Wageningen University & Research)
Agricultural robotics: the challenge of variation (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Lasse Klingbeil

Abubakr Muhammad (Lahore University of Management Sciences)
Robotic Crop Phenotyping Testbed for Sustainable Agriculture
Paper Pal: Rajkishan Arikapudi

Karim Fahmy (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems)
APV-Bot Demonstrator (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Stavros Vougioukas

Guoqiang Ren (Zhejiang University)
Mobile Robotics Platform for Strawberry Inspection and Harvesting within Precision Indoor Farming Systems
Paper Pal: Omar Betancourt

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 29, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Silke Hüttel (University of Bonn)
The Importance of Social Norm on Adopting Sustainable Digital Farming Methods (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Madhu Khanna

Elin Martinsson & Anna Massfeller (University of Bonn)
What can current agricultural technology tell us about the future?
Paper Pal: Sebastian Rasch

Madhu Khanna (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Economic Incentives for Robotic Weed Control in Row Crop Agriculture (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Joachim von Braun

Dario Schulz (University of Bonn)
Experimental evidence on the impact of providing digital information to smallholder farmers in Haiti and El Salvador
Paper Pal: Hugo Storm

Chandra Krintz (University of California Santa Barbara)
Open-Source, On-Farm Systems for Precision Agriculture Applications (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Jürgen Gall

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 29, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Christine Diepenbrock (University of California Davis)
Digital and AI technologies to improve crop nutritional quality and abiotic stress tolerance (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Peng Yu

Daniel Runcie (University of California Davis)
MegaLMM: A Statistical Model for Genomic Prediction with High-dimensional Traits (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Sassoum Lo

Boas Pucker (TU Braunschweig)
Detecting genomic regions that determine seed quality of Brassica napus through mapping-by-sequencing (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Gabriel Schaaf

Guillaume Lobet (FZ Jülich)
Virtual Phenotyping pipeline for the evaluation of Root hydraulic properties of in silico maize landraces
Paper Pal: Mathieu Javaux

Isaya Kisekka (University of California Davis)
Evaluating the effect of Soil Heterogeneity on Root Zone Water Dynamics in Almond Orchards using Electrical Resistivity Tomography (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Andreas Kemna

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Charles Rongione (Université catholique de Louvain)
Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Multi-Species Canopies using Active Learning and Fully Convolutional Neural Networks
Paper Pal: Troy Magney

Ribana Roscher (University of Bonn)
Deep Generative Models for Agriculture (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Cyrill Stachniss

George Kantor (Carnegie Mellon University / AIIRA)
A perception pipeline for modeling plant geometry and mechanics (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Andrea Schnepf

Taeyeong Choi (University of Lincoln)
Self-supervised Representation Learning of Visual Anomalies in Soft Fruits with Controlled Curricula (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Tiansi Dong

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Mattia Balestra (Università Politecnica delle Marche)
SFARM Research Centre
Paper Pal: Maryia Halubok

Sasha Loewen (Montana State University)
Precision Organic Agriculture
Paper Pal: Yufang Jin

A. K. M. Abdullah Al-Amin (Harper Adams University)
Economic Implications of Field Size for Autonomous Arable Crop Equipment
Paper Pal: Aaron Smith

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 18.00 - 19.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.00 - 10.00 (PDT, UTC-7)

Hannes Engler (Julius Kühn-Institut)
Use of artificial intelligence for grapevine yield forecast and breeding research
Paper Pal: Daniel Runcie

Maria Gerullis (University of Bonn)
From Genes to Policy – Mission-oriented Governance of Plant-Breeding Research
Paper Pal: Annaliese Mason

Anna Langstroff (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
High-Resolution Phenotyping of Drought Tolerance Traits in Wheat
Paper Pal: Lasse Klingbeil

Julie Krämer (University of Bonn)
Exploring plant physiology in mixed cropping systems by using non-invasive spectroscopy
Paper Pal: Katharina Luhmer

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Javier Muro (University of Bonn)
Modelling vegetation in grasslands with deep learning and Sentinel-2
Paper Pal: Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen

Andrea Schnepf (FZ Jülich)
Functional-structural plant models: Mathematical representation of flow and transport processes
Paper Pal: Sara Bauke

Christopher Bahr (Hochschule Geisenheim University)
Virtual Riesling - a functional-structural grapevine model for climate impact research
Paper Pal: Christopher Wong

Ixchel Hernández-Ochoa (University of Bonn)
Modeling approaches to design diversified cropping systems at the local and landscape scale and the importance of considering within field heterogeneities
Paper Pal: Jan Vanderborght

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Sierra Young (Utah State University)
Manipulating UAVs for controlled pollinations in the forestry industry (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Mark Mueller

Philipp Lottes (Pheno-Inspect)
Pheno-Inspect: Digital Experts for Plant Analysis
Paper Pal: Anne-Katrin Mahlein

Tobias Kreklow (HAIP Solutions)
Hyperspectral Imaging for AgriFood applications with HAIP Solutions
Paper Pal: Eduard Zell

Martin Weis (Landwirtschaftliches Technologiezentrum Augustenberg)
Open source software for UAS data processing of field trials
Paper Pal: Jan-Henrik Haunert

Presentations and Live Q&A: Mar 30, 2022 from 19.15 - 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.15 - 11.15 (PDT, UTC-7)

Maurice Günder & Facundo R. Ispizua Yamati (University of Bonn & Institute of Sugar Beet Research)
Combining large-scale field experiments with artificial intelligence for disease severity estimation
Paper Pal: Armin Djamei

Rocio Calderon (Cornell University)
Soilborne plant pathogen dispersal and assessment: building a remote sensing-based global system for plant disease
Paper Pal: Eric Kent

Madhuri Paul (University of Bonn)
Crop Mixture
Paper Pal: Sabine Seidel

Christoph Scherber (Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring at the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change)
Hardware and software tools to assess agricultural biodiversity (Invited Talk)
Paper Pal: Nicolas Brüggemann