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Labor shortages in fruit crop production have prompted the development of mechanized and automated machines as alternatives to labor-intensive orchard operations such as harvesting, pruning, and thinning. Agricultural robots capable of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Dawood Ahmed , Ranjan Sapkota , Martin Churuvija , Manoj Karkee

Fruit tree pruning and fruit thinning require a powerful vision system that can provide high resolution segmentation of the fruit trees and their branches. However, recent works only consider the dormant season, where there are minimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Zijue Chen , David Ting , Rhys Newbury , Chao Chen

Precision agriculture is area with lack of cheap technology. The refinement of the production system brings large advantages to the producer and the use of images makes the monitoring a more cheap methodology. Macronutrients monitoring can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Maicon A. Sartin , Alexandre C. R. da Silva

The extraction of phenotypic traits is often very time and labour intensive. Especially the investigation in viticulture is restricted to an on-site analysis due to the perennial nature of grapevine. Traditionally skilled experts examine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Laura Zabawa , Anna Kicherer , Lasse Klingbeil , Reinhard Töpfer , Heiner Kuhlmann , Ribana Roscher

This article exemplifies the design of a fruit detection and classification system using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). The goal is to develop a system that automatically assesses fruit quality for farm inventory management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Beatriz Díaz Peón , Jorge Torres Gómez , Ariel Fajardo Márquez

Early-stage identification of fruit flowers that are in both opened and unopened condition in an orchard environment is significant information to perform crop load management operations such as flower thinning and pollination using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Salik Ram Khanal , Ranjan Sapkota , Dawood Ahmed , Uddhav Bhattarai , Manoj Karkee

Automated apple harvesting has attracted significant research interest in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize the apple industry, addressing the issues of shortage and high costs in labor. One key technology to fully enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Pengyu Chu , Zhaojian Li , Kaixiang Zhang , Dong Chen , Kyle Lammers , Renfu Lu

Fruit harvesting poses a significant labor and financial burden for the industry, highlighting the critical need for advancements in robotic harvesting solutions. Machine vision-based fruit detection has been recognized as a crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiajia Li , Kyle Lammers , Xunyuan Yin , Xiang Yin , Long He , Renfu Lu , Zhaojian Li

We present a novel fruit counting pipeline that combines deep segmentation, frame to frame tracking, and 3D localization to accurately count visible fruits across a sequence of images. Our pipeline works on image streams from a monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Xu Liu , Steven W. Chen , Shreyas Aditya , Nivedha Sivakumar , Sandeep Dcunha , Chao Qu , Camillo J. Taylor , Jnaneshwar Das , Vijay Kumar

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning method based on a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) that simultaneously detects and geolocates plantation-rows while counting its plants considering highly-dense plantation configurations.…

One of the major challenges for the agricultural industry today is the uncertainty in manual labor availability and the associated cost. Automated flower and fruit density estimation, localization, and counting could help streamline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Uddhav Bhattarai , Santosh Bhusal , Qin Zhang , Manoj Karkee

Instance segmentation is an important image processing operation for agricultural automation, providing precise delineation of individual objects within images and enabling tasks such as selective harvesting and precision pruning. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Ranjan Sapkota , Dawood Ahmed , Manoj Karkee

In agricultural robotics, effective observation and localization of fruits present challenges due to occlusions caused by other parts of the tree, such as branches and leaves. These occlusions can result in false fruit localization or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ege Gursoy , Dana Kulić , Andrea Cherubini

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is widely used in image classification, recognition, text understanding, and natural language processing, leading to significant advancements. In this paper, we introduce AI into the field of fruit quality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Boyang Deng , Xin Wen , Zhan Gao

Accurate and consistent fruit monitoring over time is a key step toward automated agricultural production systems. However, this task is inherently difficult due to variations in fruit size, shape, occlusion, orientation, and the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Daniel Fusaro , Federico Magistri , Jens Behley , Alberto Pretto , Cyrill Stachniss

In this research, a fully neural network based visual perception framework for autonomous apple harvesting is proposed. The proposed framework includes a multi-function neural network for fruit recognition and a Pointnet grasp estimation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Hanwen Kang , Chao Chen

Yield and its prediction is one of the most important tasks in grapevine breeding purposes and vineyard management. Commonly, this trait is estimated manually right before harvest by extrapolation, which mostly is labor-intensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Robert Rudolph , Katja Herzog , Reinhard Töpfer , Volker Steinhage

Detection, segmentation and tracking of fruits and vegetables are three fundamental tasks for precision agriculture, enabling robotic harvesting and yield estimation applications. However, modern algorithms are data hungry and it is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Thomas A. Ciarfuglia , Ionut M. Motoi , Leonardo Saraceni , Mulham Fawakherji , Alberto Sanfeliu , Daniele Nardi

Accurate depth-sensing plays a crucial role in securing a high success rate of robotic harvesting in natural orchard environments. Solid-state LiDAR (SSL), a recently introduced LiDAR technique, can perceive high-resolution geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang , Chao Chen

We introduce FruitNeRF, a unified novel fruit counting framework that leverages state-of-the-art view synthesis methods to count any fruit type directly in 3D. Our framework takes an unordered set of posed images captured by a monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lukas Meyer , Andreas Gilson , Ute Schmid , Marc Stamminger