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Auteurs principaux: Yun, Heesup, Uyehara, Isaac Kazuo, Ranario, Earl, Lundqvist, Lars, Diepenbrock, Christine H., Bailey, Brian N., Earles, J. Mason
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08930
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author Yun, Heesup
Uyehara, Isaac Kazuo
Ranario, Earl
Lundqvist, Lars
Diepenbrock, Christine H.
Bailey, Brian N.
Earles, J. Mason
author_facet Yun, Heesup
Uyehara, Isaac Kazuo
Ranario, Earl
Lundqvist, Lars
Diepenbrock, Christine H.
Bailey, Brian N.
Earles, J. Mason
contents This paper introduces a synthetic benchmark to evaluate the performance of vision language models (VLMs) in generating plant simulation configurations for digital twins. While functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) are useful tools for simulating biophysical processes in agricultural environments, their high complexity and low throughput create bottlenecks for deployment at scale. We propose a novel approach that leverages state-of-the-art open-source VLMs -- Gemma 3 and Qwen3-VL -- to directly generate simulation parameters in JSON format from drone-based remote sensing images. Using a synthetic cowpea plot dataset generated via the Helios 3D procedural plant generation library, we tested five in-context learning methods and evaluated the models across three categories: JSON integrity, geometric evaluations, and biophysical evaluations. Our results show that while VLMs can interpret structural metadata and estimate parameters like plant count and sun azimuth, they often exhibit performance degradation due to contextual bias or rely on dataset means when visual cues are insufficient. Validation on a real-world drone orthophoto dataset and an ablation study using a blind baseline further characterize the models' reasoning capabilities versus their reliance on contextual priors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to utilize VLMs to generate structural JSON configurations for plant simulations, providing a scalable framework for reconstruction 3D plots for digital twin in agriculture.
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spellingShingle Using Vision Language Foundation Models to Generate Plant Simulation Configurations via In-Context Learning
Yun, Heesup
Uyehara, Isaac Kazuo
Ranario, Earl
Lundqvist, Lars
Diepenbrock, Christine H.
Bailey, Brian N.
Earles, J. Mason
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
This paper introduces a synthetic benchmark to evaluate the performance of vision language models (VLMs) in generating plant simulation configurations for digital twins. While functional-structural plant models (FSPMs) are useful tools for simulating biophysical processes in agricultural environments, their high complexity and low throughput create bottlenecks for deployment at scale. We propose a novel approach that leverages state-of-the-art open-source VLMs -- Gemma 3 and Qwen3-VL -- to directly generate simulation parameters in JSON format from drone-based remote sensing images. Using a synthetic cowpea plot dataset generated via the Helios 3D procedural plant generation library, we tested five in-context learning methods and evaluated the models across three categories: JSON integrity, geometric evaluations, and biophysical evaluations. Our results show that while VLMs can interpret structural metadata and estimate parameters like plant count and sun azimuth, they often exhibit performance degradation due to contextual bias or rely on dataset means when visual cues are insufficient. Validation on a real-world drone orthophoto dataset and an ablation study using a blind baseline further characterize the models' reasoning capabilities versus their reliance on contextual priors. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to utilize VLMs to generate structural JSON configurations for plant simulations, providing a scalable framework for reconstruction 3D plots for digital twin in agriculture.
title Using Vision Language Foundation Models to Generate Plant Simulation Configurations via In-Context Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08930