3D plant phenotyping is notoriously known to be procedure-complicated and of low throughput due to the extensive multi-view imaging, the fragile 3D reconstruction pipeline, and the additional cost from reconstructed geometry to phenotypic extraction. These limitations are further amplified in low-cost data acquisition, where smartphone videos or sparsely sampled multi-view images provide limited view overlap and self-occlusion.
arXiv:2607. 03245v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping generates valuable data that often remains trapped in unstructured text and isolated RGB images.
By Jayant Ghadge, Soumyashree Kar, Surya S. Durbha
Recent 3D foundation models provide powerful feature representations for point cloud learning by controlling spatial granularity. However, relying on a fixed spatial granularity severely limits generalization in applications like plant phenotyping, where organ morphology and size vary substantially across species and growth stages.
arXiv:2606. 14562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sociable weaver nests function as complex ecological structures offering thermoregulatory microhabitats and sustaining diverse species; however, datasets used in prior studies lack fine-grained 3D structural detail.
By Constanza A. Molina Catricheo, Simon Boeder, Ting-Jia Guo, Giacomo May, Cl\'ement Berthelot, Devis Tuia, Friedrich Fedor Reinhard, Fabio Remondino, Benjamin Risse
High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them. At Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Advanced Plant Phenotyping Laboratory (APPL), automated stations image hundreds of plants daily across multiple remote sensing modalities; yet, trait extraction and interpretation remain manual, expert-bound, and strictly post-hoc, making analysis, not acquisition, the binding constraint on discovery.
arXiv:2606. 31831v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput plant phenotyping now generates image derived datasets far faster than scientists can analyze them.
By Renan Souza, Daniel Rosendo, Kelsey Carter, John Lagergren, Fr\'ed\'eric Suter, Shelaine L. Curd, Gerald A. Tuskan, Rafael Ferreira da Silva, David Weston