Predictive Modeling, Pattern Recognition, and Spatiotemporal Representations of Plant Growth in Simulated and Controlled Environments: A Comprehensive Review

TL;DR

This comprehensive review discusses advanced predictive modeling and pattern recognition techniques for plant growth, emphasizing spatiotemporal representations, environmental interactions, and future research directions in plant phenomics.

Contribution

The paper provides an extensive survey of modeling approaches, highlighting the integration of domain knowledge and data-driven methods for improved plant growth prediction.

Findings

Neural network-based models enhance forecasting accuracy.

Limitations exist in deterministic approaches for dynamic environments.

Future opportunities include integrating environmental feedback and improving datasets.

Abstract

Accurate predictions and representations of plant growth patterns in simulated and controlled environments are important for addressing various challenges in plant phenomics research. This review explores various works on state-of-the-art predictive pattern recognition techniques, focusing on the spatiotemporal modeling of plant traits and the integration of dynamic environmental interactions. We provide a comprehensive examination of deterministic, probabilistic, and generative modeling approaches, emphasizing their applications in high-throughput phenotyping and simulation-based plant growth forecasting. Key topics include regressions and neural network-based representation models for the task of forecasting, limitations of existing experiment-based deterministic approaches, and the need for dynamic frameworks that incorporate uncertainty and evolving environmental feedback. This review surveys advances in 2D and 3D structured data representations through functional-structural plant models and conditional generative models. We offer a perspective on opportunities for future works, emphasizing the integration of domain-specific knowledge to data-driven methods, improvements to available datasets, and the implementation of these techniques toward real-world applications.