SoilNet App: AI-Assisted Expert-level Annotations of Soil Horizons

Singh, Vipin; Pruessing, Joey; Chiaburu, Teodor; Eberhardt, Einar; Hesse, Sina; Broda, Stefan; Haußer, Frank; Biessmann, Felix

doi:10.24963/ijcai.2026/993

SoilNet App: AI-Assisted Expert-level Annotations of Soil Horizons

Vipin Singh, Joey Pruessing, Teodor Chiaburu, Einar Eberhardt, Sina Hesse, Stefan Broda, Frank Haußer, Felix Biessmann

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Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Demo Track. Pages 8518-8521.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/993

Keywords

AI: Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications
AI: Computer Vision
AI: Humans and AI

Abstract

Precise descriptions of soil horizons are required for policy makers, agriculture and many applications in civil engineering. Up to date correct soil horizon annotations require human experts as they follow complex hierarchical taxonomies. We present the SoilNet App, a web-based demonstrator that guides experts through relevant tasks for expert-level soil horizon annotations from soil profile images. To demonstrate the reliability of the SoilNet app we present results of a user study with soil horizon annotation experts, which highlights the difficulty of image-only-based annotation and suggests that collaborating with our model not only increases expert performance but also improves inter-annotator consistency. Our app is publicly accessible (https://soilnet.demo.calgo-lab.de).

Vipin Singh, Joey Pruessing, Teodor Chiaburu, Einar Eberhardt, Sina Hesse, Stefan Broda, Frank Haußer, and Felix Biessmann. 2026. SoilNet App: AI-Assisted Expert-level Annotations of Soil Horizons. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-26. IJCAI, 8518–8521. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/993

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  title     = {SoilNet App: AI-Assisted Expert-level Annotations of Soil Horizons},
  author    = {Singh, Vipin and Pruessing, Joey and Chiaburu, Teodor and Eberhardt, Einar and Hesse, Sina and Broda, Stefan and Haußer, Frank and Biessmann, Felix},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-26}},
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  editor    = {Diego Calvanese},
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