Program for the Live Event on November 10, 2020
9.00 – 9.15 (CET) in Room 1 and Room 2
Heiner Kuhlmann & Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn):
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9.15 – 10.00 (CET) in Room 1 (Salah Sukkarieh) and Room 2 (Michelle Watt)
Keynotes (in parallel)
Salah Sukkarieh (University of Sydney):
Field Robotics for Horticulture
Moderation: Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn)
Michelle Watt (University of Melbourne):
Shine light on the rhizosphere to save land, water and fertiliser in the 21st century
Moderation: Andrea Schnepf (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
10.00 – 11.00 (CET)
Parallel Sessions
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 10am - 11am CET | Chair: Chris McCool (University of Bonn)
Chris Lehnert (Queensland University of Technology):
Using active robotic vision techniques to deal with visual occlusions in robotic harvesting
Rick van de Zedde (Wageningen University and Research):
Automation and robotics for high-throughput phenotyping and precision horticulture
Marc Hanheide (University of Lincoln):
Autonomous Robots supporting Soft-Fruit production
Inkyu Sa (CSIRO):
Aerial and ground visual perception in agricultural projects; Flourish and Fruit detection
Lasse Klingbeil (University of Bonn):
Where exactly is my plant? How to accurately georeference sensor data from mobile platforms in agricultural applications
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 10am - 11am CET | Chair: Wulf Amelung (University of Bonn)
Malcolm Bennett (University of Nottingham):
Uncovering the hidden half of crops using advanced root phenotyping pipelines
Gina Lopez, Sofia Hadir et al. (University of Bonn):
Effect of nutrient limitations on shoot and root growth, root morphology and root topology on sugar beet and winter wheat under field conditions
Marion Deichmann, Yeshambel Emewodih Mihiret et al. (University of Bonn):
Characterization of nutrient imbalance symptoms in selected wheat and barley genotypes
Andrea Schnepf, Guillaume Lobet & Jan Vanderborght (Forschungszentrum Jülich):
Functional-structural plant models as tools for sustainable crop production
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 10am - 11am CET | Chair: Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn)
Maximo Torero Cullen (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO):
The Need of a sustainable Digital Transformation of Agri-food value chains
Stephan Kallweit, Josef Franko, Heiko Engemann & Enno Duelberg (FH Aachen, University of Applied Sciences):
Recent Developments in Agricultural Robotics
Dario Schulz (University of Bonn):
A meta-analysis of agricultural innovation adoption determinants: the role of spatial context and technology traits
Philipp Baaden, Carolin Block, Michael Wustmans, Marcus John & Stefanie Bröring (University of Bonn):
Analysing clustering approaches for the evaluation of emerging technologies within the domain of precision agriculture
Christoph Pahmeyer, Till Kuhn & Wolfgang Britz (University of Bonn):
‘Fruchtfolge’: A crop rotation decision support system for optimizing cropping choices with big data and spatially explicit modeling
11:00 – 11:15 (CET)
Break
11.15 – 12.15 (CET)
Parallel Sessions
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 11:15am - 12:15pm CET | Chair:Jürgen Gall (University of Bonn)
Kristian Kersting (Technical University Darmstadt):
Making deep neural networks right for the right scientific reasons
Jinhui Yi (University of Bonn):
Deep learning for non-invasive diagnosis of nutrient deficiencies in sugar beet using RGB images
Lukas Drees (University of Bonn):
Temporal Prediction and Evaluation of Brassica Growth in the Field using Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks
Dario Gogoll (University of Bonn):
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Transferring Plant Classification Systems to New Field Environments, Crops, and Robots
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 11:15am - 12:15pm CET | Chair:Thomas Döring (University of Bonn)
Madhuri Paul, Dereje Demie, Sabine Seidel et al. (University of Bonn):
Effects of cereal-legume crop mixtures on crop and multifunctional agroecosystem performance
Kathrin Grahmann (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF):
The smaller the better? Why a reduction in field size combined with field robotics can get us closer towards pesticide free agriculture
Ixchel Hernandez-Ochoa (University of Bonn):
New Field Arrangements for Sustainable Agriculture: Improving and Extending Crop Models to Explore Agro-ecosystem Dynamics
Marco Donat (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF):
Creation of Patch Cropping maps – A prototype of a web-based application
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 11:15am - 12:15pm CET | Chair:Jan Börner (University of Bonn)
James Lowenberg-DeBoer (Harper Adams University):
Economics of Autonomous Equipment for Application of Biopesticides
Débora Moretti, Chad Baum, Melf-Hinrich Ehlers, Robert Finger & Stefanie Bröring (University of Bonn):
Adoption of precision agriculture technologies: using Group Concept Mapping to explore and deepen knowledge about different stakeholder perceptions
Linmei Shang, Thomas Heckelei, Jan Börner, Maria Gerullis & Sebastian Rasch (University of Bonn):
Adoption and diffusion of digital farming technologies – Integrating farm-level evidence and system-level interaction
Olivia Spykman, Andreas Gabriel, Markus Gandorfer (Bavarian State Research Center for Agriculture, LfL), Moritz Ptaceck (TU Munich):
What do small-scale farmers think about agricultural robots?
12:15 – 13:00 (CET)
Lunch Break
13:00 – 13:45 (CET) in Room 1 (Frank Ewert) and Room 2 (Achim Walter)
Keynotes (in parallel)
Frank Ewert (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF):
Digital technologies for sustainable crop production: progress and challenges
Moderation: Heiner Kuhlmann (University of Bonn)
Achim Walter (ETH Zurich):
Digitalization and Sustainability: The role of technology
Moderation: Ulrich Schurr (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
13:45 – 14:45 (CET)
Parallel Sessions
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 1:45pm - 2:45pm CET | Chair:Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn)
Jan Weyler (University of Bonn):
Joint Plant Instance Detection and Leaf Count Estimation for In-Field Plant Phenotyping
Grzegorz Cielniak (University of Lincoln):
Soft Fruit Perception in the Wild
François Tardieu (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, INRAE):
Which information from phenotyping can be used for breeding?
Laura Zabawa (University of Bonn):
Counting grapevine berries in images via semantic segmentation
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 1:45pm - 2:45pm CET | Chair:Uwe Rascher (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Harnaik Dhami et al. (University of Maryland):
Using UAV Mounted 3D LiDAR to Estimate Plant Height
Helge Aasen (ETH Zurich):
UAV High-Throughput Field Phenotyping of Canopy Temperature
Arnaud Van Boxsom (Terres Inovia):
UAV use to estimate a new phenotypical trait for farmers: the winter oilseed rape vigor
Philippe Aebischer (School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, HAFL):
Measuring sward height and dry matter yield of pastures using multispectral imagery from UAV and a random forest algorithm
Diana Pavlic (University of Bonn):
In-field plant phenotyping using aerial image-based point clouds
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 1:45pm - 2:45pm CET | Chair:Heiner Kuhlmann (University of Bonn)
Tony Pridmore (University of Nottingham):
Novel Convolutional Neural Net Architectures for Plant Image Analysis and Phenotyping
Stefan Paulus, Anne-Katrin Mahlein, Facundo Ispizua Yamati & Abel Barreto (Institute for Sugar Beet Research, IfZ):
Using hyperspectral cameras in greenhouses – introduction into data processing and application scenarios
Astrid Junker (Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, IPK):
Automated phenotyping of crop acclimation capacity: towards integration, mechanisms and resilience
Mandana Moshrefzahdeh, David Gackstetter et al. (Technical University of Munich):
Towards a distributed digital twin for the agricultural research environment - The Smart Rural Area Data Infrastructure (SRADI)
14:45 – 15:00 (CET)
Break
15:00 – 16:00 (CET)
Parallel Sessions
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 3pm - 4pm CET | Chair: Sven Behnke (University of Bonn)
Cédric Pradalier, Antoine Richard et al. (GeorgiaTech Lorraine):
Advanced modeling techniques for efficient crop irrigation
Marija Popović (Imperial College London):
An informative path planning framework for UAV-based terrain monitoring
Tianchen Ji, Sri Theja Vuppala, Girish Chowdhary & Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection for Unstructured and Uncertain Environments
Nived Chebrolu (University of Bonn):
Spatio-temporal registration of plant point clouds for phenotyping
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 3pm - 4pm CET | Chair: Frank Ewert (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research, ZALF)
Amy Marshall-Colón (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign):
Increasing crop production by connecting models from micro to macro scales
Pierre Martre (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment, INREA):
Model aided phenotyping: from ecophysiological knowledge to phenotype prediction
Marco Herrmann, Benno Kleinhenz, Paolo Racca & Stephan Estel (Zentralstelle der Länder für EDV-gestützte Entscheidungshilfen und Programme im Pflanzenschutz, ZEPP):
Use of ancillary data for partial area specific prognosis of stem base diseases in wheat
Bruno Basso (Michigan State University):
Digital Technologies for a Regenerative Agriculture
Live Q&A: Nov 10, 2020 from 3pm - 4pm CET | Chair: Gabriel Schaaf (University of Bonn)
Annaliese Mason (University of Bonn):
Making new crop species
James Schnable (University of Nebraska-Lincoln):
Prioritizing of Genes with Phenotypic Impact
Viacheslav Adamchuk (McGill University):
Integration approach to proximal plant sensing
Jillian Deines & David Lobell (Stanford University):
Sub-Field Yield Estimation with Satellites: How Good Is It and What Can We Learn?
16:00 – 16:45 (CET) in Room 1 (Thomas Heckelei) and Room 2 (Ulrich Schurr)
Keynotes (in parallel)
Thomas Heckelei (University of Bonn):
Impacts of robotics and sensing technologies for crop production – an economist’s perspective
Moderation: Gabriel Schaaf (University of Bonn)
Ulrich Schurr (Forschungszentrum Jülich):
Automated phenotyping in controlled and field conditions for breeeding support
Moderation: Maren Bennewitz (University of Bonn)
16:45 – 17:00 (CET) in Room 1
Heiner Kuhlmann & Cyrill Stachniss (University of Bonn):
Closing Remarks and Outlook