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Main Authors: Segreto, Thiago H., Negri, Juliano, Polegato, Paulo H., Pinheiro, João Manoel Herrera, Godoy, Ricardo V., Becker, Marcelo
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01605
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author Segreto, Thiago H.
Negri, Juliano
Polegato, Paulo H.
Pinheiro, João Manoel Herrera
Godoy, Ricardo V.
Becker, Marcelo
author_facet Segreto, Thiago H.
Negri, Juliano
Polegato, Paulo H.
Pinheiro, João Manoel Herrera
Godoy, Ricardo V.
Becker, Marcelo
contents Soybean and cotton are major drivers of many countries' agricultural sectors, offering substantial economic returns but also facing persistent challenges from volunteer plants and weeds that hamper sustainable management. Effectively controlling volunteer plants and weeds demands advanced recognition strategies that can identify these amidst complex crop canopies. While deep learning methods have demonstrated promising results for leaf-level detection and segmentation, existing datasets often fail to capture the complexity of real-world agricultural fields. To address this, we collected 640 high-resolution images from a commercial farm spanning multiple growth stages, weed pressures, and lighting variations. Each image is annotated at the leaf-instance level, with 7,221 soybean and 5,190 cotton leaves labeled via bounding boxes and segmentation masks, capturing overlapping foliage, small leaf size, and morphological similarities. We validate this dataset using YOLOv11, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in accurately identifying and segmenting overlapping foliage. Our publicly available dataset supports advanced applications such as selective herbicide spraying and pest monitoring and can foster more robust, data-driven strategies for soybean-cotton management.
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spellingShingle A Leaf-Level Dataset for Soybean-Cotton Detection and Segmentation
Segreto, Thiago H.
Negri, Juliano
Polegato, Paulo H.
Pinheiro, João Manoel Herrera
Godoy, Ricardo V.
Becker, Marcelo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Soybean and cotton are major drivers of many countries' agricultural sectors, offering substantial economic returns but also facing persistent challenges from volunteer plants and weeds that hamper sustainable management. Effectively controlling volunteer plants and weeds demands advanced recognition strategies that can identify these amidst complex crop canopies. While deep learning methods have demonstrated promising results for leaf-level detection and segmentation, existing datasets often fail to capture the complexity of real-world agricultural fields. To address this, we collected 640 high-resolution images from a commercial farm spanning multiple growth stages, weed pressures, and lighting variations. Each image is annotated at the leaf-instance level, with 7,221 soybean and 5,190 cotton leaves labeled via bounding boxes and segmentation masks, capturing overlapping foliage, small leaf size, and morphological similarities. We validate this dataset using YOLOv11, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance in accurately identifying and segmenting overlapping foliage. Our publicly available dataset supports advanced applications such as selective herbicide spraying and pest monitoring and can foster more robust, data-driven strategies for soybean-cotton management.
title A Leaf-Level Dataset for Soybean-Cotton Detection and Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01605