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Semantic segmentation of drone images is critical for various aerial vision tasks as it provides essential semantic details to understand scenes on the ground. Ensuring high accuracy of semantic segmentation models for drones requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wenxiao Cai , Ke Jin , Jinyan Hou , Cong Guo , Letian Wu , Wankou Yang

Accurate tree detection is of growing importance in applications such as urban planning, forest inventory, and environmental monitoring. In this article, we present an approach to creating tree maps by annotating them in 3D point clouds.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Michael Kölle , Volker Walter , Ivan Shiller , Uwe Soergel

Random forest regression is a powerful non-parametric method that adapts to local data characteristics through data-driven partitioning, making it effective across diverse application domains. However, the piecewise constant nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ziyi Liu , Phuc Luong , Mario Boley , Daniel F. Schmidt

We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Joel Kronander , Magnus Wrenninge , Jonas Unger

The ability to segment unknown objects in depth images has potential to enhance robot skills in grasping and object tracking. Recent computer vision research has demonstrated that Mask R-CNN can be trained to segment specific categories of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Michael Danielczuk , Matthew Matl , Saurabh Gupta , Andrew Li , Andrew Lee , Jeffrey Mahler , Ken Goldberg

The development of generalizable Novel View Synthesis (NVS) models is critically limited by the scarcity of large-scale training data featuring diverse and precise camera trajectories. While real-world captures are photorealistic, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chenhan Jiang , Yu Chen , Qingwen Zhang , Jifei Song , Songcen Xu , Dit-Yan Yeung , Jiankang Deng

Recently, increasing attention has been drawn to training semantic segmentation models using synthetic data and computer-generated annotation. However, domain gap remains a major barrier and prevents models learned from synthetic data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Xiaoran Chen , Luc Van Gool

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

To achieve strong real world performance, neural networks must be trained on large, diverse datasets; however, obtaining and annotating such datasets is costly and time-consuming, particularly for 3D point clouds. In this paper, we describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Michael A. Alcorn , Noah Schwartz

Prior work on plant species classification predominantly focuses on building models from isolated plant attributes. Hence, there is a need for tools that can assist in species identification in the natural world. We present a novel and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Dewald Homan , Johan A. du Preez

Decision trees and random forest remain highly competitive for classification on medium-sized, standard datasets due to their robustness, minimal preprocessing requirements, and interpretability. However, a single tree suffers from high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-02 Cencheng Shen , Yuexiao Dong , Carey E. Priebe

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

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Contour trees describe the topology of level sets in scalar fields and are widely used in topological data analysis and visualization. A main challenge of utilizing contour trees for large-scale scientific data is their computation at scale…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingzhe Li , Hamish Carr , Oliver Rübel , Bei Wang , Gunther H. Weber

Accurate mapping of individual trees is an important component for precision agriculture in orchards, as it allows autonomous robots to perform tasks like targeted operations or individual tree monitoring. However, creating these maps is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-17 David Rapado-Rincon , Gert Kootstra

Scene understanding is a prerequisite to many high level tasks for any automated intelligent machine operating in real world environments. Recent attempts with supervised learning have shown promise in this direction but also highlighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Ankur Handa , Viorica Patraucean , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Simon Stent , Roberto Cipolla

Quality control of assembly processes is essential in manufacturing to ensure not only the quality of individual components but also their proper integration into the final product. To assist in this matter, automated assembly control using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jonas Werheid , Shengjie He , Aymen Gannouni , Anas Abdelrazeq , Robert H. Schmitt

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

Developing a robust algorithm for automatic individual tree crown (ITC) detection from laser scanning datasets is important for tracking the responses of trees to anthropogenic change. Such approaches allow the size, growth and mortality of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Jonathan Williams , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Tom Swinfield , Juheon Lee , Xiaohao Cai , Lan Qie , David A. Coomes