DR. Dirk Norbert Baker
Research Data Management, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
About me
I am a Research Software Engineer at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, currently working on interactive Computing, Federated Resources and Data Management, and Research Data Consulting.
Topics I have worked in
Computer Vision and Synthetic Data, particularly 3D data analysis and visualization using Paraview, VTK, Unreal Engine, and other tools. I have worked on plant data analysis, particularly image analysis, in multiple contexts, including but not limited to root segmentation and root architecture reconstruction, plant segmentation, plant modelling, plant visualization. Data and scientific visualization are particularly of interest to me.
Publications
Adapting Agricultural Virtual Environments in Game Engines to Improve HPC Accessibility
Baker D, Bauer F, Schnepf A, Scharr H, Riedel M, Göbbert J, Hvannberg E - Communications in Computer and Information Science - 2025
VRoot: A VR-Based application for manual root system architecture reconstruction
Baker D, Selzner T, Göbbert J, Scharr H, Riedel M, Hvannberg E, Schnepf A, Zielasko D - Plant Phenomics - 2025
Virtual world coupling with photosynthesis evaluation for synthetic data production
Baker D, Giraud M, Göbbert J, Scharr H, Riedel M, Hvannberg E, Schnepf A - in silico Plants - 2025
A scalable pipeline to create synthetic datasets from functional–structural plant models for deep learning
Baker D, Bauer F, Giraud M, Schnepf A, Göbbert J, Scharr H, Hvannberg E, Riedel M - in silico Plants - 2023
