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Background: The segment-anything model (SAM), introduced in April 2023, shows promise as a benchmark model and a universal solution to segment various natural images. It comes without previously-required re-training or fine-tuning specific…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sheng He , Rina Bao , Jingpeng Li , Jeffrey Stout , Atle Bjornerud , P. Ellen Grant , Yangming Ou

The accurate semantic segmentation of tree crowns within remotely sensed data is crucial for scientific endeavours such as forest management, biodiversity studies, and carbon sequestration quantification. However, precise segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Georgios Voulgaris

Segment Anything Model (SAM) is an advanced foundational model for image segmentation, which is gradually being applied to remote sensing images (RSIs). Due to the domain gap between RSIs and natural images, traditional methods typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Nanqing Liu , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Haojie Zhang , Heng-Chao Li

In recent years, precision agriculture has gradually oriented farming closer to automation processes to support all the activities related to field management. Service robotics plays a predominant role in this evolution by deploying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Simone Angarano , Mauro Martini , Alessandro Navone , Marcello Chiaberge

Detecting individual tree crowns in tropical forests is essential to study these complex and crucial ecosystems impacted by human interventions and climate change. However, tropical crowns vary widely in size, structure, and pattern and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Hugo Baudchon , Arthur Ouaknine , Martin Weiss , Mélisande Teng , Thomas R. Walla , Antoine Caron-Guay , Christopher Pal , Etienne Laliberté

Segment Anything Model (SAM), known for its remarkable zero-shot segmentation capabilities, has garnered significant attention in the community. Nevertheless, its performance is challenged when dealing with what we refer to as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Guangqian Guo , Pengfei Chen , Yong Guo , Huafeng Chen , Boqiang Zhang , Shan Gao

Accurate mapping of individual trees is essential for ecological monitoring and forest management. Orthomosaic imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is widely used, but stitching artifacts and heavy preprocessing limit its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rongkun Zhu , Kangning Cui , Wei Tang , Rui-Feng Wang , Sarra Alqahtani , David Lutz , Fan Yang , Paul Fine , Jordan Karubian , Robert Plemmons , Jean-Michel Morel , Victor Pauca , Miles Silman

We propose to use a simulation driven inverse inference approach to model the dynamics of tree branches under manipulation. Learning branch dynamics and gaining the ability to manipulate deformable vegetation can help with occlusion-prone…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jayadeep Jacob , Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay , Jason Williams , Paulo Borges , Fabio Ramos

Data collection for forestry, timber, and agriculture currently relies on manual techniques which are labor-intensive and time-consuming. We seek to demonstrate that robotics offers improvements over these techniques and accelerate…

Delineating farmland boundaries is essential for agricultural management such as crop monitoring and agricultural census. Traditional methods using remote sensing imagery have been efficient but limited in generalisation. The Segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Yufeng Xie , Hanzhi Wu , Hongxiang Tong , Lei Xiao , Wenwen Zhou , Ling Li , Thomas Cherico Wanger

Earth's forests play an important role in the fight against climate change, and are in turn negatively affected by it. Effective monitoring of different tree species is essential to understanding and improving the health and biodiversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Venkatesh Ramesh , Arthur Ouaknine , David Rolnick

Tree height estimation serves as an important proxy for biomass estimation in ecological and forestry applications. While traditional methods such as photogrammetry and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) offer accurate height measurements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Grace Colverd , Jumpei Takami , Laura Schade , Karol Bot , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia

Interactive segmentation, a computer vision technique where a user provides guidance to help an algorithm segment a feature of interest in an image, has achieved outstanding accuracy and efficient human-computer interaction. However, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhe Wang , Shoukun Sun , Xiang Que , Xiaogang Ma , Carmen Galaz Garcia

Segment Anything Model (SAM), a new AI model from Meta AI released in April 2023, is an ambitious tool designed to identify and separate individual objects within a given image through semantic interpretation. The advanced capabilities of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Gabriel Bellon de Carvalho , Jurandy Almeida

In this paper, we introduce a framework for segmenting instances of a common object class by multiple active contour evolution over semantic segmentation maps of images obtained through fully convolutional networks. The contour evolution is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Przemyslaw Polewski , Jacquelyn Shelton , Wei Yao , Marco Heurich

Automatic tree density estimation and counting using single aerial and satellite images is a challenging task in photogrammetry and remote sensing, yet has an important role in forest management. In this paper, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hamed Amini Amirkolaee , Miaojing Shi , Mark Mulligan

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Anwai Archit , Luca Freckmann , Constantin Pape

Classical and more recently deep computer vision methods are optimized for visible spectrum images, commonly encoded in grayscale or RGB colorspaces acquired from smartphones or cameras. A more uncommon source of images exploited in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Caio C. V. da Silva , Keiller Nogueira , Hugo N. Oliveira , Jefersson A. dos Santos

Manual pruning of radiata pine, a species of major economic importance to New Zealand forestry, is hazardous, labour-intensive, and increasingly constrained by workforce shortages. Existing autonomous pruning platforms typically rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yida Lin , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang , Sam Schofield , Richard Green

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