3D Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation in Real Orchard Environments Across Different Sensors

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Main Authors: Sodano, Matteo, Magistri, Federico, Marks, Elias, Hosn, Fares, Zurbayev, Aibek, Marcuzzi, Rodrigo, Malladi, Meher V. R., Behley, Jens, Stachniss, Cyrill
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author Sodano, Matteo
Magistri, Federico
Marks, Elias
Hosn, Fares
Zurbayev, Aibek
Marcuzzi, Rodrigo
Malladi, Meher V. R.
Behley, Jens
Stachniss, Cyrill
author_facet Sodano, Matteo
Magistri, Federico
Marks, Elias
Hosn, Fares
Zurbayev, Aibek
Marcuzzi, Rodrigo
Malladi, Meher V. R.
Behley, Jens
Stachniss, Cyrill
contents Crop yield estimation is a relevant problem in agriculture, because an accurate yield estimate can support farmers' decisions on harvesting or precision intervention. Robots can help to automate this process. To do so, they need to be able to perceive the surrounding environment to identify target objects such as trees and plants. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address the problem of hierarchical panoptic segmentation of apple orchards on 3D data from different sensors. Our approach is able to simultaneously provide semantic segmentation, instance segmentation of trunks and fruits, and instance segmentation of trees (a trunk with its fruits). This allows us to identify relevant information such as individual plants, fruits, and trunks, and capture the relationship among them, such as precisely estimate the number of fruits associated to each tree in an orchard. To efficiently evaluate our approach for hierarchical panoptic segmentation, we provide a dataset designed specifically for this task. Our dataset is recorded in Bonn, Germany, in a real apple orchard with a variety of sensors, spanning from a terrestrial laser scanner to a RGB-D camera mounted on different robots platforms. The experiments show that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in 3D panoptic segmentation in the agricultural domain, while also providing full hierarchical panoptic segmentation. Our dataset is publicly available at https://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/data/hops/. The open-source implementation of our approach is available at https://github.com/PRBonn/hapt3D.
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spellingShingle 3D Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation in Real Orchard Environments Across Different Sensors
Sodano, Matteo
Magistri, Federico
Marks, Elias
Hosn, Fares
Zurbayev, Aibek
Marcuzzi, Rodrigo
Malladi, Meher V. R.
Behley, Jens
Stachniss, Cyrill
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Crop yield estimation is a relevant problem in agriculture, because an accurate yield estimate can support farmers' decisions on harvesting or precision intervention. Robots can help to automate this process. To do so, they need to be able to perceive the surrounding environment to identify target objects such as trees and plants. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach to address the problem of hierarchical panoptic segmentation of apple orchards on 3D data from different sensors. Our approach is able to simultaneously provide semantic segmentation, instance segmentation of trunks and fruits, and instance segmentation of trees (a trunk with its fruits). This allows us to identify relevant information such as individual plants, fruits, and trunks, and capture the relationship among them, such as precisely estimate the number of fruits associated to each tree in an orchard. To efficiently evaluate our approach for hierarchical panoptic segmentation, we provide a dataset designed specifically for this task. Our dataset is recorded in Bonn, Germany, in a real apple orchard with a variety of sensors, spanning from a terrestrial laser scanner to a RGB-D camera mounted on different robots platforms. The experiments show that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art approaches in 3D panoptic segmentation in the agricultural domain, while also providing full hierarchical panoptic segmentation. Our dataset is publicly available at https://www.ipb.uni-bonn.de/data/hops/. The open-source implementation of our approach is available at https://github.com/PRBonn/hapt3D.
title 3D Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation in Real Orchard Environments Across Different Sensors
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.13188