This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will support the development of a voice-controlled virtual reality (VR) visual analytics system for plant digital twins. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include:
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Novel AI-based algorithms to reconstruct detailed 3D plant models from phenotyping data, rendering plants with high visual plausibility and photorealism.
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A voice-controlled VR user interface that can interpret complex commands to interact with and analyze the plant digital twins, designed to accommodate a range of accents and English proficiency levels.
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Deployment and evaluation of the VR platform with participants ranging from novices to experts, to assess the system's ability to enable intuitive, natural interaction with AI-powered plant data analytics.
The anticipated impact is to bridge the domain gap in current data analytics systems and support the development of a data-enabled biology workforce capable of advancing plant biology research and innovation.
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