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Plants in Computer Vision
One Day BMVA symposium in London, UK November 16th 2016

Chairs: Hannah Dee
Keynote Speakers: Sotirios Tsaftaris, Chancellor’s fellow, University of 
Edinburgh & Hanno Scharr, Head of Quantitative Image Analysis, 
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
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Registration
Book online at bmva.org/meetings
£10 for BMVA Members
£30 for Non Members, includes BMVA Membership

Programme
New methods in plant biology have led to an explosion in data types and 
methods of data acquisition, and much of this data is image-based in 
nature. Computer vision, image analysis and image processing techniques 
are being applied to more plant data than ever before.
9:00 Registration opens
9:30 Keynote 1: Hanno Scharr - Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
10.30 Jonathon Gibbs - A Fully Automated Active Vision Cell for 3D 
Reconstruction of Plant Shoots
10.50 Coffee Break and Posters
11.50 Gytis Bernotas - 3D plant surface reconstruction using the 
Photometric Stereo technique
12.00 Dominic Williams - Segmentation & splitting of hyperspectral 
images of raspberry’s in field conditions
12.20 Norman MacLeod - Automating leaf physiognomic character 
identification for taxonomic, phylogenetic and climate change research
12.40 Lunch and Posters
13.20 keynote 2: Sotirios Tsaftaris - Edinburgh University
14.20 Jonathan Bell - Detecting leaf-from-leaf occluding edges in 
Arabidopsis thaliana
14.40 Andrew French - New analysis and traits for automated phenotyping
15.00 Christian Fournier - Phenomenal: a software framework for 
model-assisted analysis of high throughput plant phenotyping data
15.20 Rick van de Zedde - Plant architecture measurement using a 3D 
reconstruction method suitable for high throughput plant phenotyping
15.40 Coffee Break
16.00 Marco Aita - Circumnutation in 3D
16.20 Milan Sulc - Fine-Grained Recognition of Plants in the Wild
16.40 Shafiekhani, A - Vinobot and Vinoculer: Two Robotic Platforms for 
Field Phenotyping

Posters
A Raspberry Pi based solution for high quality automated plant imaging 
using RFID technology - Katie Awty-Carroll, Colin Sauze, Kevin Williams
Developing continuous Gravimetric systems for use in plant Phenotyping - 
Nathan Hughes
Watering plants makes them grow a bit later- K S Williams, R D Boyle
Producing and analysing a seed germination time series dataset - Danny 
Awty-Carroll; Paul Robson
Flower identification on species level with uneven classes and few 
images - Vasiliki Simaiaki, Andrea Mirabile, Eduard Vazquez
Visibility in foliage - Miles Hansard
Root System Recovery from X-ray CT Image Data of Fully-Developed Wheat 
Plants - Stefan Mairhofer Brian Atkinson Craig J. Sturrock Sacha J. 
Mooney Malcolm J. Bennett  Tony P. Pridmore

Registration
Book online at bmva.org/meetings
£10 for BMVA Members
£30 for Non Members, includes BMVA Membership