IPPN Affordable Phenotyping Workshop
15-17 May 2017
Jülich, Germany
Workshop Summary
One of the current problems in plant phenotyping are the high entry level and maintenance expenses of new sensors and infrastructures. This prevents many research organizations from implementing urgently needed approaches due to lack of investment budget and technical personnel. Therefore, affordable phenotyping concepts and methods need to be disseminated to a wider plant science and breeding community by identifying demands, increasing the awareness and collecting and sharing available knowledge on lean solutions.
This workshop is primarily intended for experimental biologists, who are looking for alternative low-cost approaches in different fields of plant phenotyping. The workshop will include lectures, demonstrations, hands-on and discussions on different topics like smartphone applications and programming, structural imaging, multispectral imaging and field phenotyping methods for roots and shoot.
Program
15 Monday 2017
12:00 – 13:00 Arrival, registration, and lunch
13:00 – 13:20 Roland Pieruschka and Fabio Fiorani (IBG-2, FZ Jülich, Germany): Introduction into the IPPN and the “Affordable Phenotyping” working group
13:20 – 14:05 David Rousseau (Université Lyon, France): Toward cost-effective imaging-based plant phenotyping
14:05 – 14:25 Uttam Kumar (Cimmyt, El Batan, Mexico): High-throughput Phenotyping in Genomic Selection Yield Trials
14:25 – 14:45 Benjamin Bruns (IBG-2, FZ Jülich, Germany): Smart measuring & data management - benefits of using (free) IoT technologies
14:45 – 15:05 Tobias Wojciechowski (IBG-2, FZ Jülich, Germany): Root phenotyping in the field
15:05 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Sotirios A. Tsaftaris (University of Edingburgh, GB): Machine learning can empower trait extraction in affordable phenotyping
16:15 – 16:35 Panintorn Prempree (PLT Lab, National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand): Android-based rice leaf color analyzer
16:35 – 16:55 Gustavo Pereyra-Irujo and Luiz Aguirrezabal (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentinia): Strategies for increasing access to phenotyping tools
16:55 – 17:15 Mark Müller-Linow (IBG-2, FZ Jülich, Germany): Estimating leaf and shoot area from affordable 2d and 3d imaging approaches
17:15 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:30 Moderated discussion (Fabio Fiorani)
19:00 Dinner: My Thai Restaurant
16 Tuesday 2017
08:00 – 09:00 Arrival
09:00 – 09:15 Johannes Seidl-Schulz (Geo-Konzept, Germany): Field-phenotyping by UAVs - Evaluation of the current state of drone-based field-phenotyping
09:15 – 09:30 Bas van Eerdt (Phenokey, Netherlands): Professional, easy-to-use and versatile multi-spectral plant imaging made affordable
09:30 – 09:45 Nick Webb (Delta-T Devices, UK): Towards non-destructive leaf area measurement
09:45 – 10:00 Roger Noble (Zegami, UK): The importance of images in plant phenomics
10:00 – 10:15 Udo Seiffert (Fraunhofer IFF, Germany): HawkSpex(R) Mobile--A ubiquitously available plant scanner
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break (Courtesy of Zegami)
10:30 – 10:50 Demo of Phenotiki
10:50 – 11:00 Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Calibration of camera systems
11:30 – 12:00 3d-measurements of shoot using occipital sensor
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch--Seecasino, Stetternicher Raum
13:00 – 13:45: Parallel session
Group 1: Camera Calibration
Group 2: Thermography
13:50 – 14:35: Parallel session:
Group 1: Thermography
Group 2: Camera Calibration
14:35 – 15:00: Coffee Break & Discussions
15:00 – 16:00: Single Session: Root imaging
16:00 – 16:25: Coffee Break & Discussions
16:25 – 17:10: Parallel session
Group 1: Arduino programs
Group 2: Occipital Sensor
17:15 – 18:00: Parallel session
Group 1: Occipital Sensor
Group 2: Arduino programs
19:00 Dinner at Café Cortés
17 May 2017
08:00 – 09:00 Arrival
09:00 – 12:00 Conclusions – Discussions of the hands-on exercises, starting a challenge for affordable phenotyping approaches
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch and departure
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15:00 – 17:00 IPPN working group discussion