Dirk Norbert Baker

Publications

T. Selzner, D. N. Baker, M. Landl, D. Leitner, G. Lobet, and A. Schnepf. "Coupling of MRI and modelling." In: NMR in Plants and Soils. Ed. by A. Pohlmeier, S. Haber-Pohlmeier, and S. Stapf. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025. Chap. 16, in press. DOI: 10.1039/9781837673452
D. N. Baker, M. Giraud, J. H. Göbbert, H. Scharr, M. Riedel, E. Þ. Hvannberg, and A. Schnepf. "Virtual World Coupling with Photosynthesis Evaluation for Synthetic Data Production." In: in silico Plants (2025), diaf018. DOI: 10.1093/insilicoplants/diaf018
D. N. Baker, T. Selzner, J. H. Göbbert, H. Scharr, M. Riedel, E. þ. Hvannberg, A. Schnepf, and D. Zielasko. "VRoot: A VR-Based Application for Manual Root System Architecture Reconstruction." In: Plant Phenomics (2025), p. 100013. ISSN: 2643-6515 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphe.2025.100013
D. N. Baker, F. Bauer, A. Schnepf, H. Scharr, M. Riedel, J. H. Göbbert, and E. Hvannberg. "Adapting Agricultural Virtual Environments in Game Engines to Improve HPC Accessibility." In: Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow. Ed. by A. Azab and T. Malkiewicz. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp. 152–167. ISBN: 978-3-031-86240-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-86240-3_11
F. M. Bauer, D. N. Baker, M. Giraud, J. C. Baca Cabrera, J. Vanderborght, G. Lobet, and A. Schnepf. "Root system architecture reorganization under decreasing soil phosphorus lowers root system conductance of Zea mays." In: Annals of Botany (Nov. 2024), mcae198. ISSN: 0305-7364 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcae198
D. N. Baker, F. M. Bauer, M. Giraud, A. Schnepf, J. H. Göbbert, H. Scharr, E. Þ. Hvannberg, and M. Riedel. "A scalable pipeline to create synthetic datasets from functional–structural plant models for deep learning." In: in silico Plants 6.1 (Dec. 2023), diad022. ISSN: 2517-5025 DOI: 10.1093/insilicoplants/diad022
T. Selzner, J. Horn, M. Landl, A. Pohlmeier, D. N. Helmrich, K. Huber, J. Vanderborght, H. Vereecken, S. Behnke, and A. Schnepf. "3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows." In: Plant Phenomics 5 (2023), p. 0076 DOI: 10.34133/plantphenomics.0076
A. C. Demiralp, D. N. Helmrich, J. Protze, T. W. Kuhlen, and T. Gerrits. "Performance Assessment of Diffusive Load Balancing for Distributed Particle Advection." In: CSRN. Západočeská univerzita, 2022 DOI: 10.24132/csrn.3201.2
A. Schnorr, D. N. Helmrich, D. Denker, T. W. Kuhlen and B. Hentschel, "Feature Tracking by Two-Step Optimization," In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 2219-2233, 1 June 2020 DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2883630
A. Schnorr, D. N. Helmrich, H. Childs, T. W. Kuhlen and B. Hentschel, "Feature Tracking Utilizing a Maximum-Weight Independent Set Problem," In: IEEE 9th Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019, pp. 6-15 DOI: 10.1109/LDAV48142.2019.8944363

Presentations

HIFIS: Infrastructures for Ad-Hoc Research Data Management — Max Planck Digital Library, Max Planck RDM Conference, November 2025, Leipzig, Germany
Helmholtz Federated IT Infrastructures — High Productivity Data Processing Research Group Retreat, October 2025, Hella, Iceland
Plant Imaging Expert Group meeting: Introducing VRoot — A VR-Based application for manual root system architecture reconstruction — Euro-BioImaging Plant Imaging Expert Group (webinar), 25 Jun 2025, Online (event page)
Design and evaluation of data analysis and augmentation approaches for functional-structural plant models — PhD Defense Talk, May 2025, Reykjavik, Iceland
Hands-On Root Architecture Reconstruction — Demo — Virtual Reality: Software and Technology Conference (VRST '24), October 2024, Trier, Germany DOI: 10.1145/3641825.3689494
Towards Large-Scale Rendering of Simulated Crops for Synthetic Ground Truth Generation on Modular Supercomputers — Poster, IEEE Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), 2021 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2110.14946
Complexity Estimation for Feature Tracking Data — Poster, IEEE 8th Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV), Berlin, Germany, 2018 DOI: 10.1109/LDAV.2018.8739231

Special Roles

Reviewer — Plant Phenomics, Scientific Communications, Journal of Open Source Software
Registration Chair — ACM Virtual Reality: Software and Technology 2024 and ACM Spatial User Interactions 2024
International Program Committee Member — ACM Virtual Reality: Software and Technology

Videos

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Defense Talk - Dirk Baker, 30. May 2025 — Watch on YouTube
Virtual World Coupling with Photosynthesis Evaluation for Synthetic Data Production, 14 Feb 2025 — Watch on YouTube
VRoot: An XR-Based Application for Manual Root System Architecture Reconstruction, 16 Jun 2024 — Watch on YouTube
Adapting Agricultural Virtual Environments in Game Engines to Improve HPC Accessibility (NeIC 2024), 1 Jun 2024 — Watch on YouTube
Synavis-driven agricultural environment distributed rendering, 28 May 2024 — Watch on YouTube
Visualizing Data on Simulation Geometry through Synavis in Unreal Engine, 25 Mar 2024 — Watch on YouTube
Synavis: Coupling FSPM Visualization to Graphics Engines, 21 Dec 2023 — Watch on YouTube