arXiv Computer Vision

ADA 2025: A Multimodal Dataset for Water-Deficit Stress Detection in Sugar Beets

ADA 2025 is a publicly released multimodal dataset exceeding 500 GB, featuring young sugar beet plants under healthy and water‑deficit conditions. It combines thermal, hyperspectral, RGB, and depth imagery with environmental metadata, relative water content, and leaf thickness as ground‑truth labels. The dataset addresses gaps in current AI/ML crop‑management research by providing diverse modalities, accurate metadata, and frequent data points for early stress detection.

arXiv Machine Learning
6d ago

AgriDefend: A $205 Offline Edge Device that Detects Crop Stress Before Visible Symptoms via Multimodal AI Fusion

AgriDefend is a $205 consumer‑grade edge device that fuses canopy imagery and soil probe data to detect crop stress before visible symptoms appear. It uses a MobileNetV2 CNN for image analysis, a Random Forest for soil trend features, and a logistic‑regression meta‑learner to produce a five‑class crop‑health prediction, all running on a Raspberry Pi 5 without cloud connectivity. In a greenhouse drought trial with wild radish, the fused model achieved 87 % accuracy and its soil signals predicted wilting about four days earlier than visual signs.

By George Xu, Nikhil Vincent, Elizabeth S. Forbes
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Fruit-HSNet: A Machine Learning Approach for Hyperspectral Image-Based Fruit Ripeness Prediction

arXiv:2608. 01202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fruit ripeness prediction (FRP) is a classification-based agricultural computer vision task that has attracted much attention, thanks to its wide-ranging advantages in agriculture field for both pre-harvest and post-harvest management.

By Ahmed Baha Ben Jmaa, Faten Chaieb, Anna Fabija\'nska
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Attention mechanisms and transfer learning for robust peach leaf damage classification under domain shift

arXiv:2606. 02045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence provides a practical framework for crop damage assessment from imagery data, supporting early decision-making in agricultural management.

By Adri\'an C\'anovas-Rodriguez, Miguel A. Gonz\'alez-Ill\'an, Maria Fernanda Garc\'ia-Cruz, Pedro Nortes Tortosa, Jos\'e Salvador Rubio-Asensio, Miguel A. Zamora Izquierdo, Juan Antonio Mart\'inez Navarro, Antonio F. Skarmeta
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Aug 2

Fruit-HSNet: A Machine Learning Approach for Hyperspectral Image-Based Fruit Ripeness Prediction

Fruit ripeness prediction (FRP) is a classification-based agricultural computer vision task that has attracted much attention, thanks to its wide-ranging advantages in agriculture field for both pre-harvest and post-harvest management. Accurate and timely FRP can be achieved using machine/deep learning-based hyperspectral image classification techniques.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

AgroBench: A Reproducible Multimodal Benchmark for Weakly Supervised Crop Yield Learning from County Statistics and Pixel Observations

AgroBench is a reproducible benchmark that converts U.S. county-level crop yield statistics into weakly supervised pixel‑level crop time series. The data generation pipeline fuses USDA yield data with land cover masks, Sentinel‑2 and Sentinel‑1 imagery, climatic variables, and terrain information to produce multimodal sequences for individual crop pixels across the growing season. The benchmark includes over 13 million observations from 788,654 crop pixels, covering 5,107 county‑year combinations for five major U.S. crops from 2017 to 2024, and establishes a Leave‑One‑Year‑Out evaluation protocol with baseline machine learning results.

By Udaiveer Singh, Rajiv Ranjan, Shashank Tamaskar, Dharmendra Saraswat
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

A Dataset-Centric Benchmark of Deep Learning Methods for Grape Leaf Disease Classification and Detection

The paper introduces a dataset‑centric benchmark for deep learning approaches to grape leaf disease classification and detection. It evaluates publicly available datasets on disease categories, annotations, acquisition conditions, and class distributions, and tests representative models across image‑level classification, region‑level classification, and object detection. Results reveal high accuracy on controlled datasets but significant performance drops on heterogeneous, real‑world data, especially in cross‑dataset transfer and object detection tasks.

By Petar Canoski, Vlatko Spasev, Ivica Dimitrovski, Ivan Kitanovski, Petre Lameski
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

LeafTrackNet: A Deep Learning Framework for Robust Leaf Tracking in Top-Down Plant Phenotyping

LeafTrackNet is a deep learning framework that combines a YOLOv10-based leaf detector with a MobileNetV3-based embedding network to track individual leaves over time. The authors introduce CanolaTrack, a large benchmark dataset of 5,704 RGB images with 31,840 annotated leaf instances from 184 canola plants. When evaluated without prior fine‑tuning, LeafTrackNet outperforms existing methods on CanolaTrack, KOMATSUNA, and MSU‑PID datasets, achieving HOTA scores of 88.03, 87.33, and 74.20 respectively.

By Shanghua Liu, Majharulislam Babor, Christoph Verduyn, Breght Vandenberghe, Bruno Betoni Parodi, Cornelia Weltzien, Marina M. -C. H\"ohne