Horticultural Temporal Fruit Monitoring via 3D Instance Segmentation and Re-Identification using Colored Point Clouds

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Hauptverfasser: Fusaro, Daniel, Magistri, Federico, Behley, Jens, Pretto, Alberto, Stachniss, Cyrill
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author Fusaro, Daniel
Magistri, Federico
Behley, Jens
Pretto, Alberto
Stachniss, Cyrill
author_facet Fusaro, Daniel
Magistri, Federico
Behley, Jens
Pretto, Alberto
Stachniss, Cyrill
contents Accurate and consistent fruit monitoring over time is a key step toward automated agricultural production systems. However, this task is inherently difficult due to variations in fruit size, shape, occlusion, orientation, and the dynamic nature of orchards where fruits may appear or disappear between observations. In this article, we propose a novel method for fruit instance segmentation and re-identification on 3D terrestrial point clouds collected over time. Our approach directly operates on dense colored point clouds, capturing fine-grained 3D spatial detail. We segment individual fruits using a learning-based instance segmentation method applied directly to the point cloud. For each segmented fruit, we extract a compact and discriminative descriptor using a 3D sparse convolutional neural network. To track fruits across different times, we introduce an attention-based matching network that associates fruits with their counterparts from previous sessions. Matching is performed using a probabilistic assignment scheme, selecting the most likely associations across time. We evaluate our approach on real-world datasets of strawberries and apples, demonstrating that it outperforms existing methods in both instance segmentation and temporal re-identification, enabling robust and precise fruit monitoring across complex and dynamic orchard environments. Keywords = Agricultural Robotics, 3D Fruit Tracking, Instance Segmentation, Deep Learning , Point Clouds, Sparse Convolutional Networks, Temporal Monitoring
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spellingShingle Horticultural Temporal Fruit Monitoring via 3D Instance Segmentation and Re-Identification using Colored Point Clouds
Fusaro, Daniel
Magistri, Federico
Behley, Jens
Pretto, Alberto
Stachniss, Cyrill
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Accurate and consistent fruit monitoring over time is a key step toward automated agricultural production systems. However, this task is inherently difficult due to variations in fruit size, shape, occlusion, orientation, and the dynamic nature of orchards where fruits may appear or disappear between observations. In this article, we propose a novel method for fruit instance segmentation and re-identification on 3D terrestrial point clouds collected over time. Our approach directly operates on dense colored point clouds, capturing fine-grained 3D spatial detail. We segment individual fruits using a learning-based instance segmentation method applied directly to the point cloud. For each segmented fruit, we extract a compact and discriminative descriptor using a 3D sparse convolutional neural network. To track fruits across different times, we introduce an attention-based matching network that associates fruits with their counterparts from previous sessions. Matching is performed using a probabilistic assignment scheme, selecting the most likely associations across time. We evaluate our approach on real-world datasets of strawberries and apples, demonstrating that it outperforms existing methods in both instance segmentation and temporal re-identification, enabling robust and precise fruit monitoring across complex and dynamic orchard environments. Keywords = Agricultural Robotics, 3D Fruit Tracking, Instance Segmentation, Deep Learning , Point Clouds, Sparse Convolutional Networks, Temporal Monitoring
title Horticultural Temporal Fruit Monitoring via 3D Instance Segmentation and Re-Identification using Colored Point Clouds
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07799