arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

A100: A Hybrid Vision Foundation Model for Agricultural Plant Image Analysis

A100 is a hybrid CNN‑Transformer vision foundation model trained on 3 million unlabeled agricultural images using self‑supervised techniques (DINO, iBOT, KoLeo). It achieves superior crop classification (95.37 % with a frozen backbone) and phenotyping accuracy, and after fine‑tuning reaches 99.90 % on 32‑class crop identification and 99.02 % on 44‑class disease detection. With only 1 % of labeled data, A100 attains 98.01 % plant classification accuracy, outperforming existing baselines and other agricultural foundation models by significant margins.

By Mayur Pratim Das, Ajai Dubey, Aksshay Mathew P, Sana Afreen, Rishi Kumar Soni, Deepak Meena, Pratibha Kumari, Mukesh Saini
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

A Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based Pipeline for End-to-End Procedural Modeling of Field-Grown Maize from Point Clouds

The paper introduces an automated pipeline that reconstructs editable 3D procedural models of field‑grown maize directly from raw 3D point clouds, eliminating the need for manual tuning or species‑specific training data. It uses a vision‑language model to annotate leaf midlines in rendered views, then applies deterministic geometric algorithms and differentiable NURBS fitting to generate accurate plant descriptors and refine leaf surfaces. The method achieves a median Chamfer distance of 5.4 mm on 100 diverse maize plants and recovers 99.4% of reference leaves with high overlap, outperforming previous semi‑automated approaches.

By Mozhgan Hadadi, Talukder Z. Jubery, Adarsh Krishnamurthy, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian
arXiv AI
Aug 24

AT-ViT: Area-Targeted Multi-View Vision Transformer with Cross-Attention and Multi-Scale Patching for Plant Trait Recognition in Herbarium Images

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