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This paper presents a stereo-vision-based system mounted on a drone for detecting and localising radiata pine branches to support autonomous pruning. The proposed pipeline comprises two stages: branch segmentation and depth estimation. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yida Lin , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Sam Schofield , Richard Green

Leveraging the extensive training data from SA-1B, the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates remarkable generalization and zero-shot capabilities. However, as a category-agnostic instance segmentation method, SAM heavily relies on prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Hao Chen , Haotian Zhang , Wenyuan Li , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

The emergence of large models, also known as foundation models, has brought significant advancements to AI research. One such model is Segment Anything (SAM), which is designed for image segmentation tasks. However, as with other foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu , Chaotao Ding , Runlong Cao , Yan Wang , Zejian Li , Lingyun Sun , Papa Mao , Ying Zang

Swarms of drones offer an increased sensing aperture, and having them mimic behaviors of natural swarms enhances sampling by adapting the aperture to local conditions. We demonstrate that such an approach makes detecting and tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Rakesh John Amala Arokia Nathan , Sigrid Strand , Daniel Mehrwald , Dmitriy Shutin , Oliver Bimber

The development of 2D foundation models for image segmentation has been significantly advanced by the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, achieving similar success in 3D models remains a challenge due to issues such as non-unified data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yuchen Zhou , Jiayuan Gu , Tung Yen Chiang , Fanbo Xiang , Hao Su

Automating visual inspection for capturing defects based on civil structures appearance is crucial due to its currently labour-intensive and time-consuming nature. An important aspect of automated inspection is image acquisition, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zehao Ye , Lucy Lovell , Asaad Faramarzi , Jelena Ninic

In this paper we propose a supervised learning system for counting and localizing palm trees in high-resolution, panchromatic satellite imagery (40cm/pixel to 1.5m/pixel). A convolutional neural network classifier trained on a set of palm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Eu Koon Cheang , Teik Koon Cheang , Yong Haur Tay

Aerial image segmentation is the basis for applications such as automatically creating maps or tracking deforestation. In true orthophotos, which are often used in these applications, many objects and regions can be approximated well by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Daniel Gritzner , Jörn Ostermann

This paper describes an end-to-end pipeline for tree diameter estimation based on semantic segmentation and lidar odometry and mapping. Accurate mapping of this type of environment is challenging since the ground and the trees are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Steven W. Chen , Guilherme V. Nardari , Elijah S. Lee , Chao Qu , Xu Liu , Roseli A. F. Romero , Vijay Kumar

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

Remote sensing change captioning is an emerging and popular research task that aims to describe, in natural language, the content of interest that has changed between two remote sensing images captured at different times. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Futian Wang , Mengqi Wang , Xiao Wang , Haowen Wang , Jin Tang

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) exhibits a capability to segment a wide array of objects in natural images, serving as a versatile perceptual tool for various downstream image segmentation tasks. In contrast, medical image segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Yizhe Zhang , Tao Zhou , Shuo Wang , Ye Wu , Pengfei Gu , Danny Z. Chen

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has gained significant recognition in the field of semantic segmentation due to its versatile capabilities and impressive performance. Despite its success, SAM faces two primary limitations: (1) it relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuchen Li , Li Zhang , Youwei Liang , Pengtao Xie

Road masks obtained from remote sensing images effectively support a wide range of downstream tasks. In recent years, most studies have focused on improving the performance of fully automatic segmentation models for this task, achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chengcheng Lv , Rushi Li , Mincheng Wu , Xiufang Shi , Zhenyu Wen , Shibo He

Dormant pruning for fresh market fruit trees is a relatively unexplored application of agricultural robotics for which few end-to-end systems exist. One of the biggest challenges in creating an autonomous pruning system is the need to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Alexander You , Cindy Grimm , Abhisesh Silwal , Joseph R. Davidson

The segmentation of individual trees from forest point clouds is a crucial task for downstream analyses such as carbon sequestration estimation. Recently, deep-learning-based methods have been proposed which show the potential of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Jonathan Henrich , Jan van Delden

Automated segmentation is a fundamental medical image analysis task, which enjoys significant advances due to the advent of deep learning. While foundation models have been useful in natural language processing and some vision tasks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Hanxue Gu , Haoyu Dong , Jichen Yang , Maciej A. Mazurowski

There is growing interest in automating agricultural tasks that require intricate and precise interaction with specialty crops, such as trees and vines. However, developing robotic solutions for crop manipulation remains a difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chung Hee Kim , Moonyoung Lee , Oliver Kroemer , George Kantor

The success of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) demonstrates the significance of data-centric machine learning. However, due to the difficulties and high costs associated with annotating Remote Sensing (RS) images, a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Di Wang , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Minqiang Xu , Lin Liu , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Global climate change has had a drastic impact on our environment. Previous study showed that pest disaster occured from global climate change may cause a tremendous number of trees died and they inevitably became a factor of forest fire.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Chia-Yen Chiang , Chloe Barnes , Plamen Angelov , Richard Jiang