PlantC2USeg is a deep transfer‑learning framework that uses cross‑scale consistency learning and an information‑restricted decoder to improve plant point cloud segmentation. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on Soybean3D and ShapeNet Part, and demonstrates strong few‑shot generalization across species and sensing conditions. The method reduces the need for large annotated datasets and lowers adaptation overhead for new plant species.
By Yu Tian, Xintong Jiang, Jan Franklin Adamowski, Shiv O. Prasher, Shangpeng Sun
arXiv:2510. 09458v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Interest in forestry automation is growing alongside rapid advances in deep learning.
By David-Alexandre Duclos, William Guimont-Martin, Gabriel Jeanson, Arthur Larochelle-Tremblay, Martine Lapointe, Th\'eo Defosse, Fr\'ed\'eric Moore, Philippe Nolet, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
arXiv:2609.10469v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Automated plant disease diagnosis is increasingly deployed on farmer-held devices in regions where agronomic expertise is scarce and network connectivi...
By Md. Abdullah Mandal, Saad Ahmed, Md. Khalid Syfullah
arXiv:2608.28161v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Mango variety identification in Bangladesh is challenging because closely related cultivars can have similar visual characteristics and images are of...
By Monowar Islam, Safaruzzaman Shovo
AT‑ViT is a dual‑branch Vision Transformer that processes both raw herbarium scans and their segmentation masks through a multi‑scale, multi‑view cross‑attention fusion. It uses a mask‑guided patch weighting scheme to emphasize plant regions and suppress background artifacts, thereby encouraging plant‑centric representations. In trait classification tasks such as leaf base shape and thorns, AT‑ViT consistently outperforms baselines, improves spatial attention grounding (IoU_p +15.66 to +18.03 pp, IoU_b –27.92 to –31.02 pp), and shows greater robustness to synthetic background perturbations, surpassing ResNet101 by up to +32.32 accuracy points and CrossViT by up to +5.07 points.
whyItMatters":"The model addresses shortcut learning caused by background cues in herbarium images, leading to more accurate and interpretable plant trait recognition."
By Amani Sedrat, Takieddine Chehhat, Youcef Sklab, Hanane Ariouat, Abderrazak Sebaa, Eric Chenin, Jean-Daniel Zucker, Edi Profiti
arXiv:2512. 15748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual Species Recognition (VSR) is a fundamental task in scientific disciplines that require species-level identification, including ecology, palynology, evolutionary biology, systematics, and phylogenetics.
By Tian Liu, Anwesha Basu, James Caverlee, Shu Kong
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
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
CropCop is a closed‑set plant‑health recognition system covering 120 operational classes, built from a rigorously audited dataset of 109,107 images after removing 3,233 duplicate relationships. The model, based on a fine‑tuned DINOv3 ConvNeXt‑Tiny, achieves 98.51% accuracy and 96.87% macro‑F1 on a locked internal test, while a quantised MobileNetV4 variant reaches 98.46% accuracy and 96.23% macro‑F1 in a 22.60 MiB runtime artifact. Validation‑only post‑training quantisation and a compact ExecuTorch/XNNPACK PTE ensure high fidelity between the trained model and its deployed form, with minimal decision changes between the INT8 graph and the final artifact.
By Rana Muhammad Ahmed, Sabahat Abbas
arXiv:2605. 05627v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sustainable forest management relies on precise species composition mapping, yet traditional ground surveys are labour-intensive and geographically constrained.
By Gabriel Jeanson, David-Alexandre Duclos, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, No\'e Cochet, Mat\v{e}j Boxan, Anthony Desch\^enes, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau, Philippe Gigu\`ere
CoAtNet-DeepMoE is a lightweight Convolution‑Attention hybrid architecture that incorporates a DeepSeek Mixture‑of‑Experts to reduce parameters while maintaining high accuracy for tomato disease classification. The model achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on Kaggle and PlantVillage datasets, reporting 99.80% accuracy on Kaggle and 99.83% accuracy on PlantVillage, all with only 2.47 million parameters. The source code will be released on GitHub.
By Md Nadim Mahamood, Md Arif Shahriar, Md Shafi Ud Doula, Kamrul Hasan
arXiv:2607. 16283v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid advancement of generative AI has outpaced our ability to reliably detect its outputs, particularly when detectors encounter generators they have not seen before.
By Md Faraz Kabir Khan, Saeed Anwar, Ghulam Mubashar Hassan