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Delineation approaches provide significant benefits to various domains, including agriculture, environmental and natural disasters monitoring. Most of the work in the literature utilize traditional segmentation methods that require a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Kostas Blekos , Stavros Nousias , Aris S Lalos

We introduce a novel deep learning method for detection of individual trees in urban environments using high-resolution multispectral aerial imagery. We use a convolutional neural network to regress a confidence map indicating the locations…

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

Aerial remote sensing efficiently surveys large areas, but accurate direct object-level measurement remains difficult in complex natural scenes. Advancements in 3D computer vision, particularly radiance field representations such as NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Belal Shaheen , Minh-Hieu Nguyen , Bach-Thuan Bui , Shubham , Tim Wu , Michael Fairley , Matthew David Zane , Michael Wu , James Tompkin

The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of deep learning for coniferous/deciduous classification of individual trees from airborne LiDAR data. To enable efficient processing by a deep convolutional neural network (CNN), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Hamid Hamraz , Nathan B. Jacobs , Marco A. Contreras , Chase H. Clark

Middle-echo, which covers one or a few corresponding points, is a specific type of 3D point cloud acquired by a multi-echo laser scanner. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for automatic segmentation of trees that leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Jonathan Li , Rongren Wu , Yiping Chen , Qing Zhu , Zhipeng Luo , Cheng Wang

We present TreeON, a novel neural-based framework for reconstructing detailed 3D tree point clouds from sparse top-down geodata, using only a single orthophoto and its corresponding Digital Surface Model (DSM). Our method introduces a new…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Angeliki Grammatikaki , Johannes Eschner , Pedro Hermosilla , Oscar Argudo , Manuela Waldner

Generating accurate digital tree models from scanned environments is invaluable for forestry, agriculture, and other outdoor industries in tasks such as identifying biomass, fall hazards and traversability, as well as digital applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Thomas Lowe , Joshua Pinskier

Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, poses detrimental consequences such as agricultural sector disruption, global warming, flash floods, and landslides. Conventional approaches to urban street tree inventory suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Asim Khan , Umair Nawaz , Anwaar Ulhaq , Iqbal Gondal , Sajid Javed

The pattern analysis of tree structure holds significant scientific value for genetic breeding and forestry management. The current trunk and branch extraction technologies are mainly LiDAR-based or UAV-based. The former approaches obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Chenyang Fan , Xujie Zhu , Taige Luo , Sheng Xu , Zhulin Chen , Hongxin Yang

Airborne LiDAR point cloud representing a forest contains 3D data, from which vertical stand structure even of understory layers can be derived. This paper presents a tree segmentation approach for multi-story stands that stratifies the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hamid Hamraz , Marco A. Contreras , Jun Zhang

Accurate tree segmentation is a key step in extracting individual tree metrics from forest laser scans, and is essential to understanding ecosystem functions in carbon cycling and beyond. Over the past decade, tree segmentation algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Yihang She , Andrew Blake , David Coomes , Srinivasan Keshav

Monitoring forest dynamics at an individual tree scale is essential for accurately assessing ecosystem responses to climate change, yet traditional methods relying on field-based forest inventories are labor-intensive and limited in spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Matthew J. Allen , Harry J. F. Owen , Stuart W. D. Grieve , Emily R. Lines

Mapping individual tree crowns is essential for tasks such as maintaining urban tree inventories and monitoring forest health, which help us understand and care for our environment. However, automatically separating the crowns from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Julius Pesonen , Stefan Rua , Josef Taher , Niko Koivumäki , Xiaowei Yu , Eija Honkavaara

Understanding forest health is of great importance for the conservation of the integrity of forest ecosystems. In this regard, evaluating the amount and quality of dead wood is of utmost interest as they are favorable indicators of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Tsz Chung Wong , Abubakar Sani-Mohammed , Jinhong Wang , Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

Forestry is a major industry in many parts of the world. It relies on forest inventory, which consists of measuring tree attributes. We propose to use 3D mapping, based on the iterative closest point algorithm, to automatically measure tree…

Individual tree segmentation (ITS) from LiDAR point clouds is fundamental for applications such as forest inventory, carbon monitoring and biodiversity assessment. Traditionally, ITS has been achieved with unsupervised geometry-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lassi Ruoppa , Tarmo Hietala , Verneri Seppänen , Josef Taher , Teemu Hakala , Xiaowei Yu , Antero Kukko , Harri Kaartinen , Juha Hyyppä

Measuring tree morphology for phenotyping is an essential but labor-intensive activity in horticulture. Researchers often rely on manual measurements which may not be accurate for example when measuring tree volume. Recent approaches on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Wenbo Dong , Volkan Isler

The cultivation of orchard meadows provides an ecological benefit for biodiversity, which is significantly higher than in intensively cultivated orchards. The goal of this research is to create a tree model to automatically determine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Jonas Straub , David Reiser , Hans W. Griepentrog

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail