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The paper introduces a lightweight multimodal vision‑language framework based on TinyCLIP for fine‑grained classification of early‑stage apple fruitlet anatomy (calyx, fruitlet body, peduncle) in orchard images. Using a dataset of 600 high‑resolution RGB images, the model employs domain‑specific language prompts and a sliding‑window inference strategy to produce interpretable heatmaps for whole‑image localization. Achieving macro‑F1 of 0.93 on an NVIDIA T4 GPU and maintaining accuracy after INT8 quantization, the system is optimized for edge deployment on NVIDIA Jetson hardware with model sizes around 127‑137 MB and millisecond‑level inference.
arXiv:2608. 11053v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The application of computer vision in agriculture has shown significant potential for improving crop monitoring and precision farming.
arXiv:2409. 16808v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern applications such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent surveillance, and smart city systems increasingly require object detection on resource-constrained edge devices.
arXiv:2608.21454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The same fruit appears in a bunch, unpicked, peeled, bagged in plastic, or sliced on a dish, so automated fruit classification in the wild (AFCW) must...
Commercial greenhouse cucumber production is graded by fruit length, which drives harvest scheduling, labour allocation, and logistics. Manual measurement with thread or caliper is accurate but infeasible at commercial scale.
The paper evaluates how well Vision Transformers (ViTs) can handle token merging techniques—specifically ToMe and Mutual Pair Merging—across wheat phenotyping tasks such as growth-stage classification, wheat-head detection, and wheat-organ segmentation. It benchmarks task quality, throughput, token count, and GPU memory usage, including tests on a Raspberry Pi 5. Results show that classification is highly tolerant to token merging, whereas detection and segmentation suffer due to factors like repeated instances, thin organs, dense boundaries, and runtime overhead, and that optimized attention backends can negate apparent speed gains.