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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Hello NAPPNers,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">This workshop may be of interest to the community. The CfP is below and there are also ongoing challenges. Details at
<a href="https://cvppa2021.github.io/challenges/">https://cvppa2021.github.io/challenges/</a> .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">----<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture (CVPPA) Workshop at ICCV 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">https://cvppa2021.github.io<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Following successful CVPPP workshops from recent years at ECCV, BMVC, ICCV, and CVPR, CVPPP this year is held in conjunction with ICCV 2021. In this seventh workshop we aim to expand the scope
of CVPPP to include computer vision research in agriculture more broadly. To reflect this change we have renamed the workshop to CVPPA: Computer Vision in Plant Phenotyping and Agriculture. The goal of the workshop remains to extend the state of the art in
computer vision for plant and crop applications. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Submission due (full paper or 1 page abstract):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">16 July 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Notification of acceptance:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">06 August 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Camera-ready (papers and abstracts):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">17 August 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Workshop date:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">11, 16 or 17 October 2021 (TBA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Workshop topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Plant phenotyping is the identification of effects on plant structure and function (the phenotype) resulting from genotypic differences (i.e., differences in the genetic code) and the environmental
conditions a plant has been exposed to. Knowledge of plant phenotypes is a key ingredient of the knowledge-based bioeconomy, which not only literally helps to feed the world, but is also essential for feed, fibre and fuel production.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Computer vision in agriculture problems tend to revolve around automation problems, such as automated detection of plant organs for automated weeding or harvest. The images are acquired in
a variety of contexts: forests, fields, greenhouses or controlled environments, packing houses, etc. Since these definitions are quite broad, please contact the organizers if you are unsure about whether your submission is in the scope of the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">We want to identify key but unsolved problems, expose the current state-of-the-art, and broaden the field and the community.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">- advances in segmentation, tracking, detection, reconstruction and identification methods that address unsolved plant phenotyping and agricultural scenarios;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">- open source implementations, comparison and discussion of existing methods and annotation tools;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">- image data sets defining plant phenotyping or agricultural tasks, complete with annotations if appropriate, accompanied with benchmark methods if possible, and suitable evaluation methods;
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">- challenge contributions advancing the state of the art in the:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> - Global Wheat Head Detection Challenge 2021 (http://www.global-wheat.com/).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> - Leaf Segmentation Challenge (https://www.plant-phenotyping.org/CVPPP2017-challenge),
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"> - Leaf Counting Challenge (https://data-challenges.fz-juelich.de/web/challenges/challenge-page/85/overview)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Further information and submission guidelines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">We welcome both full papers and one page abstracts [will appear on the CVPPA website, only].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Full papers as well as abstracts undergo double blind peer-review. Further information about the workshop, author instructions, submission guidelines, and the challenges are available at: https://cvppa2021.github.io/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">We are looking forward to inspiring solutions for automated plant phenotyping and agricultural applications!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Workshop Organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Ian Stavness (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Ian.Stavness@usask.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Valerio Giuffrida (Edinburgh Napier University, UK), V.Giuffrida@napier.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Amy Tabb (US Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, USA), amy.tabb@usda.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Michael Pound (University of Nottingham, UK), Michael.Pound@nottingham.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Andrew French (University of Nottingham, UK), Andrew.P.French@nottingham.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Tony Pridmore (University of Nottingham, UK), Tony.Pridmore@nottingham.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Sotirios A. Tsaftaris (University of Edinburgh, UK), S.Tsaftaris@ed.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">Hanno Scharr (Forschungszentrum JŸlich, Germany), H.Scharr@fz-juelich.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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