16.15 – 16.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.15 – 9.30 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Check-In + Welcome
Cyrill Stachniss & Heiner Kuhlmann (PhenoRob)
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
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
Shaoxing Yao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Safe leaf manipulation for accurate shape and pose estimation of occluded fruits
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
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
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
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.)
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 Cassuccio (University of Bonn)
Estimating leaf chlorophyll content from simulated imagery using 3D radiative transfer and machine learning
18.45 – 19.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/11.45 – 12.30 a.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
19.00 – 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/12.30 – 13.15 a.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
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
Room 3
Panel Discussion: Advanced Genomics and Phenotyping for Crop Improvement
Jenifer Camila Godoy dos Santos (University of São Paulo)
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
18.45 – 19.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/11.45 – 12.30 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 3 – Stefano Mintchev
Stefano Mintchev (ETH Zurich)
Interactive Drones for Biodiversity Monitoring
21.00 – 21.05 (CEST, UTC+2)/14.00 – 14.05 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Closing Remarks
16.45 – 17.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/9.45 – 10.00 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Check-In + Welcome
17.00 – 17.45 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.00 – 10.45 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 1 – Bruno Basso
Bruno Basso (Michigan State University)
Digital Twins to Scale Sustainable Agricultural Systems
17.45 – 18.45 (CEST, UTC+2)/10.45 – 11.45 a.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Parallel Sessions + Discussion
Room 1
Panel Discussion: Robust Field Robotics for Complex Agricultural Environments
Ard Westerveld (Saxion University of Applied Sciences)
SMART robotics in the unstructured agricultural environment
Felix Esser (University of Bonn)
Field robot for highthroughput and high-resolution 3D plant phenotyping
Arun Narenthiran Sivakumar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
CropFollow++: Robust under-canopy navigation with keypoints
Rajitha de Silva (University of Lincoln)
Keypoint-semantic integration for improved feature matching in outdoor agricultural environments
Room 2
Panel Discussion: Advancing AI and Robotics for Precision Crop Management
Linn Chong (University of Bonn)
No Labels Required: Zero-Shot Segmentation with Foundation Models
Luiz Carlos Marques Junior (UNESP Bauru)
Lightweight deep neural networks for low-cost hardware: identifying invasive species in crops
Abhinav Pagadala (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Precision mechanical robotic weeding for specialty crops
Gianmarco Roggiolani (University of Bonn)
Unsupervised semantic label generation in agricultural fields
Room 3
Panel Discussion: Harnessing Data and Technology for Sustainable Agriculture
Olivia Zumsteg (ETH Zurich)
Estimating wheat head volume as yield-determining trait
Anna Massfeller (University of Bonn)
Action- or results based payments for ecosystem services in the era of smart weeding robots?
Sharear Roman (University of Bonn)
Modeling the Profitability of Sustainable Agricultural Innovations at Global Scale
Kaouter Essakkat (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
From data to decisions: Modeling farmer adoption of AI weed technology
18.45 – 19.30 (CEST, UTC+2)/11.45 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 2 – Andreas Hund
Andreas Hund (ETH Zurich)
Computer vision to evaluate field experiments
19.30 – 20.15 (CEST, UTC+2)/12.30 – 13.15 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Parallel Sessions + Discussion
Room 1
Panel Discussion: Genomic Selection and Data Integration for Enhancing Crop Performance
Sarah Richards Widener (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Leveraging perennial sorghum using genomic selection for food security
Boris M.E. Alladassi (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Developing a new hierarchical model for improved cross subpopulation genomic prediction in plants
Lukas Krusenbaum (University of Bonn)
Rice gene bank phenomics using publicly available pan-genomic resources
Room 2
Panel Discussion: Advanced 3D Plant Reconstruction & Phenotyping
Joaquin Gajardo (ETH Zürich)
Wheat 3DGS – In field 3D reconstruction, instance segmentation and phenotyping of wheat heads with gaussian splatting
Elias Marks (University of Bonn)
Tree skeletonization from 3D point clouds by denoising diffusion
Peter Pietrzyk (Fraunhofer IIS)
AI-based 3D plant reconstruction and analysis technology – Phenotyping for sustainable crop production
Jianchao Ci (Wageningen University & Research)
SSL-NBV: a self-supervised learning-based NBV algorithm for efficient 3D plant reconstruction by robots
Room 3
Panel Discussion: Modeling and Cropping Systems
Ixchel Hernandez Ochoa (University of Bonn)
Modelling and understanding the impacts of within field heterogeneities on diversified cropping systems
Lena Brüggemann (Vista GmbH)
Agrivoltaics crop yield modeling
Kathrin Grahmann (ZALF)
Landscape experimentation: knowledge gaps filled, and lessons learned from patchCROP’s 1st phase 2020 to 2024
20.15 – 21.00 (CEST, UTC+2)/13.15– 14.00 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Keynote 3 – Madhu Khanna
Madhu Khanna (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Artificial Intelligence-Based Digital Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture
21.00 – 21.05 (CEST, UTC+2)/14.00– 14.05 p.m. (CDT, UTC-5)
Closing Remarks