Schedule


Day 1: May 11, 2023, Thursday

Time Slot (IST) Description
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Registration - Venue: LHC
9:00-9:30 AM Inaugration ceremony- Address of Director and other dignitaries
Chair: Dr. Pushpendra
Venue: Senate Hall
9:30-10:00 AM Address by General Chair Dr. Dhananjay Singh, Saint Louis University, USA
Chair: Dr. Hanumant Singh
Venue: Senate Hall
10:00-11:00 AM Keynote by Prof. Athula, Western Sydney University
Chair: Dr. Neeraj Goel
Venue: Senate Hall
11:00-11:30 PM Tea Break - Venue: LHC
11:30-12:30 PM Keynote by Prof. Saddik, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Chair: Dr. Mukesh Saini
Venue: Senate Hall
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch break - Venue: LHC
2:00-3:00 PM Invited Talk: Dr. Ritesh Kumar, Principal Scientist, CSIR-CSIO
Session chair: Dr. Arun Kumar
Venue: M6, LHC
3:00-3:30 PM Tea Break
3:30-4:30 PM S1: AI and Agriculture

Chairs: Dr. Swati Shukla, Dr. Hanumant Singh Shekhawat
Venue: M6, LHC

3:30 PM - 8288 Fine Tuned Single Shot Detector for Finding Disease Patches in Leaves. Divyansh Thakur, Jaspal Kaur and Srikant Srinivasan

3:50 PM - 821 Empirical Analysis and Evaluation of Factors Influencing Adoption of AI-based Automation Solutions for Sustainable Agriculture. Amit Sood, Amit Kumar Bhardwaj and Rajendra Kumar Sharma.

4:10 PM - 5930 FusedNet Model for Varietal Classification of Rice Seeds. Nitin Tyagi, Yash Asati, Pratham Goyal, Yash Khandelwal, Balasubramanian Raman, Indra Gupta and Neerja Garg.
4:30-5:30 PM S2: Advanced ML for Agriculture Data Analysis

Chair: Dr. Yamuna Prasad
Venue: M6, LHC

4:30 - 8171 Fertilizer Recommendation using Ensemble Filter-based Feature Selection Approach. Sujatha M and Jaidhar C.D.

4:50 PM 7019 Privacy-Preserving Pest Detection Using Personalized Federated Learning. Ajit Kumar, Bong Jun Choi, Jaewon Jang and Junyong Yoon.

5:10 PM - 9809 A review on applications of artificial intelligence for identifying soil nutrients. Shagun Jain and Divyashikha Sethia.

Day 2: May 12, 2023, Friday

Time Slot (IST) Description
9:00-10:00 AM Keynote by Prof. Reibman, Purdue University (online)
Chair: Prof. Jitendra Kumar
Venue: M6, LHC
10:00-10:30 AM Invited talk : Prof. C.P. Suresh, North-Eastern Hill University
Chair: Dr SS Hundal
Venue: M6, LHC
11:00-11:30 AM Tea Break - Venue: LHC
10:30-11:00 AM Industry talk: Mr. Srinivas Subramanian, Areete Business Solutions
Session chair: Dr. CC Reddy
Venue: M6, LHC
11:30-12:30 PM Panel discussion - Computation Technology impact on future farming
Moderator: Dr. Shashank Tamaskar
Venue: M6, LHC
12:30-2:00 PM Lunch break - Venue: LHC
2:00-3:00 PM S3: Datasets and Evaluation Fraameworks for Agriculture
Session chair: Dr. Inderpreet
Venue: M6, LHC

2:00 PM - 3298 IRPD: In-Field Radish Plant Dataset. Simrandeep Singh, Davinder Singh, Snigdha Agarwal and Mukesh Saini.

2:20 PM - 6106 Fast Rotated Bounding Box Annotations for Object Detection. Minhajul Badhon and Ian Stavness.

2:40 PM - 9817 IndianPotatoWeeds: An Image Dataset of Potato Crop to Address Weed Issues in Precision Agriculture. Rajni Goyal, Amar Nath and Utkarsh Niranjan.
3:00-4:00 PM S4: Multi-spectral Imaging Applications in Agriculture
Session chair: Dr. Rakesh Sharda
Venue: M6, LHC

4:00 PM - 4539 Estimation Of Leaf Parameters in Punjab Region Through Multi-spectral Drone Images using Deep Learning Models. Diksha Arora, Jhilik Bhattacharya and Chinmaya Panigrahy.

4:20 PM - 8426 Application of near-infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging system for protein content prediction in chickpea flour. Dhritiman Saha, T. Senthilkumar, Chandra B. Singh and Annamalai Manickavasagan.

4:40 PM - 2840 Classification of crops based on band quality and redundancy from hyperspectral image. Kinjal Dave and Dr Y N Trivedi.
4:00-4:30 PM Tea break - Venue: LHC
4:30-5:30 PM Interaction - Success Stories of progressive farmers
Session chair: Dr. Shabir Sofi
Venue: M6, LHC
6:30 - 9:30 PM Banquet and Cultural Program
Venue: TBA

Day 3: May 13, 2023, Saturday

Time Slot (IST) Description
9:00-9:30 AM Invited Talk: Dr. Siddhartha Khare, IIT Roorkee
Session Chair: Dr. Puneet Goyal
Venue: M6, LHC
9:30-10:00 AM Invited Talk: Dr. Hanumant Singh Shekhawat, IIT Guwahati
Session Chair: Dr. TV Kalyan
Venue: M6, LHC
10:00-11:00 AM S5: Agriculture Information and Prediction Systems
Session Chair: Dr. Simrandeep Singh
Venue: M6, LHC

10:00 PM - 281 Automated Agriculture News Collection, Analysis, and Recommendation. Shaikat Das Joy and Neeraj Goel.

10:20 PM - 4903 Intelligent Chatbot Assistant in Agriculture Domain. Rahul Biswas and Neeraj Goel.

10:40 PM - 2374 Machine Learning Methods for Crop Yield Prediction. Vijayatai Hukare, Vidya Kumbhar and Sahil Shah.
11:00-11:30 AM Tea Break - Venue: LHC
11:30-12:30 PM S6: Multimodal Data Analysis for Agriculture
Session Chair: Dr. Anterpreet Kaur
Venue: M6, LHC

11:30 PM - 7218 Real-time Plant Disease Detection: A Comparative Study. Yogendra Singh, Swati Shukla, Nishant Mohan, Sumesh Eratt Parameswaran and Gaurav Trivedi.

11:50 PM - 947 Fruit Segregation using Deep Learning. Archana Dehankar, Hemanshu Dharmik, Shravani Chambhare, Darshna Kohad, Janvi Hingwe and Kaustubh Dhoke.

12:10 PM - 5696 Investigation of the bulk and electronic properties of boron/nitrogen/indium doped armchair graphene nanoribbon for sensing plant VOC: A DFT study. Jaskaran Singh Phull, Harmandar Kaur, Manjit Singh, Butta Singh, Sukhdeep Kaur, Rupendeep Kaur and Deep Kamal Kaur Randhawa.
12:30-1:30 PM Award Session, Closing Ceremony
Venue: M6, LHC
1:30-2:30 PM Lunch - LHC
May 14, 2023 Steering/Core Committee Strategic Meeting
Venue: Kangra, Dharamshala

Presenter Instructions


Every presenter will get 12 minutes to present and 3 minutes for Q & A. All presenters should upload the ppt in the provided laptop before start of the session. The presenters are requested to arrange their own adapters in case using personal laptop.

Social Events


There will be a conference banquet on 12th May with cultural performances. In addition, there will be paid excursion to Dharamshala on 13th-14th May.

Awards and Grants


There willl be award for the best paper. We are happy to announce AWaDH registration grants to cover upto 50% registration fee of the students/authors not having enough funds. To apply, please fill the following form: https://forms.gle/yZxYmSGuoWpJNdMA7.