A New Paradigm for Sustainable Development in Agriculture: Mathematics & AI Get Into the Field

December 2-3, 2021

Technological tools offered by modern Artificial Intelligence carry the promise to make modern agricultural practices more efficient and sustainable. The related scientific challenges are multiple and complex, and require extensive and interdisciplinary skills.

Supported by the SEED PRECISION project (PRecision crop protection: deep learnIng and data fuSION) funded by Università degli Studi di Milano and by the ECMI Special Interest Group “Mathematics for Big Data and Machine Learning”, the workshop aims to be an opportunity of exchange between researchers of different fields involved in this innovation: Mathematics, Computer Science and Agricultural Engineering.

Download the Book of Abstracts.

Participation to the workshop is free of charge. The event will be held in mixed form: please write an email to Alessandro Benfenati or to Paola Causin for the link of the web conference.

Venue: Sala Chagalle, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano.

How to reach us.

Invited speakers:

  • Avital Bechar, Volcani Center (Israel)
  • Alessandra Bernardi, University of Trento (Italy)
  • Paolo Bestagini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
  • Valerio Cristofori, University of Tuscia (Italy)
  • Guy Farjon, Ben Gurion University of Negev (Israel)
  • Alvaro Fuentes, Chonbuk National University (South Korea)
  • Andrea Gasparri, Roma 3 University (Italy)
  • Francesco Giannino, University of Naples (Italy)
  • Teresa Godinho, Polytechnic Institute of Beja (Portugal)
  • Marcella Guarino, University of Milano (Italy)
  • Giorgio Ragaglini, University of Milano (Italy)
  • Mehmet Özgür Turkoglu, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
  • Roberto Confalonieri, University of Milano (Italy)

Program

Thursday, December 2nd

9h00-9h30: Opening

9h30-10h00: Roberto Confalonieri, University of Milano (Italy)
Integration of remote sensing and mobile technologies to derive nutritional status maps for VR top-dressing fertilization. Slides

10h00-10h30:Guy Farjon, Ben Gurion University of Negev (Israel)
Counting in agriculture using deep learning algorithms. Slides

10h30-11h00: Coffee Break

11h00-11h30: Andrea Gasparri, Roma 3 University (Italy)
PANTHEON: An H2020 Project on the Precision Farming of Hazelnut Orchards. Slides

11h30-12h00: Valerio Cristofori, University of Tuscia (Italy)
Precision Farming of Hazelnut Orchards: Agronomic decision making 

12h00-12h30: Alessandro Benfenati, University of Milan (Italy)
A Deep Learning Generative Model Approach for Image Synthesis of Plant Leaves. Slides

12h30-14h30: Lunch Break

14h30-15h00: Alessandra Bernardi, Università di Trento
High order singular value decomposition for plant diversity estimation. Slides

15h00-15h30: Teresa Godinho, Polytechnic Institute of Beja (Portugal)
Detecting spacio-temporal patterns from temporal remote sensing
data in Precison Agriculture. Slides

15h30-16h00: Coffee Break

16h00-16h30: Francesco Giannino, University of Naples (Italy)
Hybrid Modelling in Agriculture. Slides

16h30-17h00: Avital Bechar, Volcani Center, Israel
Integrating robotics and AI for practicing precision agriculture. Slides

Friday, December 3

9h00-9h30: Alvaro Fuentes, Chonbuk National University (South Korea)
Innovation in Smart Farming:  Deep Learning-based Techniques for Plant Diseases Recognition.

9h30-10h00: Mehmet Özgür Turkoglu, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Crop Classification under Varying Cloud Cover with Neural
Ordinary Differential Equations.

10h00-10h30: Matteo Matteucci, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Will Artificial Intelligence feed the world? Slides

10h30-11h00: Coffee Break

11h00-11h30: Giorgio Ragaglini, University of Milano (Italy)
Assessing the potential of Machine Learning Regression Algorithms for improving crop Leaf Area Index estimation from Sentinel-2 Data. Slides

11h30-12h00: Dimitrios Moshou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Traceability of tomato condition using deep transfer learning neural networks 

12h00-12h30- Discussion

12h30-14h30: Lunch Break

How to reach us.

By Metro.

Arrive at Cadorna Triennale (M1 or M2), turn into piazza Cadorna, turn into via Carducci and continue to the first traffic light, crossing corso Magenta, Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline awaits you at number 61. Indications.

By Car.

  • From the northern highway (A4 Torino/Venezia; A9 Como/Chiasso; A8 Varese), after the tollbooth, continue in the direction of Milan and take the exit Milano Certosa, go to the end of viale Certosa, cross two crossings and merge into corso Sempione, at the end of the corso turn right on via Canova, at the end of the via turn right in via Pagano, after 200 m turn left in via Monti until reaching the crossing with corso Magenta, turn right and reach number 61, where you are welcomed to Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline.  
  • From highway A1 (Bologna), after the tollbooth, turn into the exit of piazzale Corvetto, turn right and you will arrive at piazzale Bologna, turn left through via Bacchiglione continue 100 m and turn right on corso Lodi. After 700 m, reaching porta Romana, turn left on via Filippetti (inner beltway), continue along viale Beatrice d’Este, viale Gian Galeazzo, viale d’Annunzio, viale Papiniano, viale of Porta Vercellina, arriving at piazzale Baracca, turn right, where at number 61 you are welcomed to Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline.  
  • From highway A7 (Genova): after the tollbooth, turn into the western tangential in the direction of Venice, exit at Milano Certosa and continue as indicated above.

By Train.

  • Arriving at the Central Station of Milan, or at the station Porta Garibaldi, take the Metropolitana MM2 in the direction of Abbiategrasso and exit to the stop for Cadorna Triennale, turn into piazza Cadorna, turn into via Carducci and continue to the first traffic light, crossing corso Magenta, Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline awaits you at number 61.

By Air.

  • From the Airport of Linate: take bus 73 departing from the piazza of the airport and exit at the end of the line, in piazza San Babila; take the Metropolitana MM1 in the direction of Fiera/Rho, exit to the stop for Cadorna Triennale, turn into piazza Cadorna, turn into via Carducci and continue to the first traffic light, crossing corso Magenta, Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline awaits you at number 61.  
  • From the Airport of Malpensa: take shuttle train “Malpensa Express” and reach the head of the line at Milano Cadorna, turn into piazza Cadorna, turn into via Carducci and continue to the first traffic light, crossing corso Magenta, Hotel Palazzo delle Stelline awaits you at number 61.