Target Participants

We invite extended 2-page-abstract for oral and/or poster presentations on topics Including but not limited to machine learning applications to plant phenotyping, plant pathology (e.g., disease scouting), plant breeding (e.g., yield prediction) and enabling smart farm management practices. We particularly encourage ML concepts applied to plant breeding, field-based experiments, production agriculture as well as lab based controlled experiments. We also encourage work that result in creating annotated benchmark datasets for ML in agriculture.

Guidelines

• Guidelines for Extended abstract submissions: Up to 2 pages including figures and tables (excluding references). Extended abstract template.
• Submission Guidelines: Submissions are through Microsoft CMT. If you do not have an Microsoft CMT account, please create one first. If you already have an Microsoft CMT account, please login to your account and enter as an author for MLCAS 2021 by following this link.
• Guidelines for Poster presentations: Poster Size: A0 (width around 84.1 cm and height around 118.9 cm) or you can use
  poster template (to be released).

Procedure

Comming soon.

Publication of Papers

Select papers from the workshop will be published in the special issue of journal "Plant Phenomics".

Important Dates

• Submission open: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
• Paper (extended abstract) deadline: Friday, October 15th, 2021
• Decision sent to authors: later in October, 2021
• Workshop date: November 2nd~4th, 2021

Topic

Crop Yield Prediction Integrating Genotype and Weather Variables Using Machine Learning . The competition details for participation are provided here.

Important Dates

• Sep 3: Start Date
• Sep 18: Team composition Deadline
• Oct 25: Final Submission Deadline
• Oct 28: Announcement of Results

Award amounts

• 1st prize : $2000
• 2nd prize : $1500
• 3rd prize: $1000

Datasets

Datasets will be made available here.

Disclaimer

Paricipant teams must finalize their team members before the composition deadline is on September 18. teams joining after September 18 cannot change their team member composition during the competition phase. Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams. Funds will be paid in the most efficient manner, typically a check to winners living in the US with payment to each team member (up to 5 participants maximum). The team contact can suggest the distribution for the team members. If a team has more than five participants, five or fewer participants need to be identified to receive the prize money. For teams outside the US, prize money will be wired to a single individual representing the team. We will need full wire instructions in an appropriate format. Please note that there will be a wire fee on the receiving end of the transaction based on the recipient's bank/financial institution. At this time, we are unable to send wires to Iran, Cuba, North Korea, or Syria, therefore no prizes will be awarded there. Please note that prizes are tax reportable in the United States. Tax forms are required for payment recipients. US Citizens or permanent US residents: Form W9 including social security number and Foreign individuals: Form W-8BEN

Contacts

For details regarding the competition, please contact us:

• Tryambak Gangopadhyay, PhD candidate, Mechanical Engineering, Iowa State University: tryambak@iastate.edu
• Koushik Nagasubramanian, PhD candidate, Electrical Engineering, Iowa State University: koushikn@iastate.edu