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@ARTICLE{Baker:1049169,
author = {Baker, Dirk N and Giraud, Mona and Göbbert, Jens Henrik
and Scharr, Hanno and Riedel, Morris and Hvannberg, Ebba
Þóra and Schnepf, Andrea},
title = {{V}irtual world coupling with photosynthesis evaluation for
synthetic data production},
journal = {In silico plants},
volume = {7},
number = {2},
issn = {2517-5025},
address = {[Oxford]},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
reportid = {FZJ-2025-05252},
pages = {diaf018},
year = {2025},
note = {This work has partly been funded by the EUROCC2 project
funded by the European High-Performance Computing Joint
Undertaking (JU) and EU/EEA states under grant agreement No
101101903. This work has partly been funded by the German
Research Foundation under Germany’s Excellence Strategy,
EXC-2070 - 390732324 - PhenoRob and by the German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework
of the funding initiative ‘Plant roots and soil
ecosystems, significance of the rhizosphere for the
bio-economy’ (Rhizo4Bio), subproject CROP (ref. FKZ
031B0909A). The authors would like to acknowledge funding
provided by the BMBF to the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing
via the InHPC-DE project (01–H17001).},
abstract = {In this work, we couple the functional–structural plant
model CPlantBox to the Unreal Engine by exploiting the
implemented raytracing pipeline to evaluate light influx on
the plant surface. There are many approaches for
photosynthesis computation and light evaluation, though they
typically are limited by versatility, compute speed, or
operate on much coarser resolutions. This work specifically
addresses the concern that data generation pipelines tend to
be unresponsive and do not include model-based knowledge as
part of the generation pipeline. Using established
photosynthesis solvers, we model the interaction between the
Unreal Engine and the FSPM to measure physical properties in
the virtual world. This is successful if we are able to
reproduce experimental results using an in silico model. As
part of the pipeline, we generate a surface geometry and
utilize material shaders that are designed to establish a
baseline surface model for light interception and
transmission, based on simple parameter sets that can be
calibrated. Using a Selhausen field experiment as baseline,
we reproduce the photosynthesis effectiveness of the plants
in the 2016 winter wheat experiments. Our pipeline is deeply
intertwined with data generation and has been proven to
perform well at scale. In this work, we build on our
previous work by showcasing both a simulation study of a
light evaluation as well as quantifying how well our system
performs on high-performance computing systems.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {004},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {2173 - Agro-biogeosystems: controls, feedbacks and impact
(POF4-217) / Rhizo4Bio (Phase 1): RhizoWheat -
Rhizosphärenprozesse und Ertragsdepressionen in
Weizenfruchtfolgen, TP B (031B0910B) / DFG project
G:(GEPRIS)390732324 - EXC 2070: PhenoRob - Robotik und
Phänotypisierung für Nachhaltige Nutzpflanzenproduktion
(390732324)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-2173 / G:(BMBF)031B0910B /
G:(GEPRIS)390732324},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1093/insilicoplants/diaf018},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1049169},
}