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The aim is to develop an automated system for accurate fruit monitoring over time in orchards.

Horticultural temporal fruit monitoring via 3D instance segmentation and re-identification using colored point clouds

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Novel method segments and tracks fruits in orchards using 3D point clouds, enabling precise monitoring.

The aim is to develop an automated system for accurate fruit monitoring over time in orchards.
Utilized 3D terrestrial point clouds for real-time fruit monitoring.
Applied learning-based instance segmentation on dense colored point clouds.
Employed a 3D sparse convolutional neural network to encode segmented fruits.
Implemented an attention-based matching network for fruit tracking over time.
The proposed method outperformed existing segmentation and tracking techniques.
Achieved precise fruit monitoring in dynamic orchard environments.
Demonstrated effectiveness on real datasets of strawberries and apples.

Fusaro et al. (2026) studied this question.

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