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most citedBack-stepping Experience Replay with Application to Model-free Reinforcement Learning for a Soft Snake Robot

11 citations · 34 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.CV2025

Object-Centric 3D Gaussian Splatting for Strawberry Plant Reconstruction and Phenotyping

Jiajia Li, Keyi Zhu, Qianwen Zhang +3

Strawberries are among the most economically significant fruits in the United States, generating over $2 billion in annual farm-gate sales and accounting for approximately 13% of t…

cs.RO2025

DiSA-IQL: Offline Reinforcement Learning for Robust Soft Robot Control under Distribution Shifts

Linjin He, Xinda Qi, Dong Chen +2

Soft snake robots offer remarkable flexibility and adaptability in complex environments, yet their control remains challenging due to highly nonlinear dynamics. Existing model-base…

eess.IV2025★ 1 cited

A Survey on 3D Reconstruction Techniques in Plant Phenotyping: From Classical Methods to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and Beyond

Jiajia Li, Xinda Qi, Seyed Hamidreza Nabaei +5

Plant phenotyping plays a pivotal role in understanding plant traits and their interactions with the environment, making it crucial for advancing precision agriculture and crop imp…

cs.CV2024

Performance Evaluation of Semi-supervised Learning Frameworks for Multi-Class Weed Detection

Jiajia Li, Dong Chen, Xunyuan Yin +1

Effective weed control plays a crucial role in optimizing crop yield and enhancing agricultural product quality. However, the reliance on herbicide application not only poses a cri…

cs.RO2024★ 11 cited

Back-stepping Experience Replay with Application to Model-free Reinforcement Learning for a Soft Snake Robot

Xinda Qi, Dong Chen, Zhaojian Li +1

In this paper, we propose a novel technique, Back-stepping Experience Replay (BER), that is compatible with arbitrary off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. BER aims to…

cs.RO2024

Design and Nonlinear Modeling of a Modular Cable Driven Soft Robotic Arm

Xinda Qi, Yu Mei, Dong Chen +2

We propose a novel multi-section cable-driven soft robotic arm inspired by octopus tentacles along with a new modeling approach. Each section of the modular manipulator is made of…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

SoybeanNet: Transformer-Based Convolutional Neural Network for Soybean Pod Counting from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Images

Jiajia Li, Raju Thada Magar, Dong Chen +5

Soybeans are a critical source of food, protein and oil, and thus have received extensive research aimed at enhancing their yield, refining cultivation practices, and advancing soy…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Large Language Models and Foundation Models in Smart Agriculture: Basics, Opportunities, and Challenges

Jiajia Li, Mingle Xu, Lirong Xiang +4

The past decade has witnessed the rapid development and adoption of ML & DL methodologies in agricultural systems, showcased by great successes in agricultural applications. Howeve…

cs.CV2023★ 4 cited

Label-Efficient Learning in Agriculture: A Comprehensive Review

Jiajia Li, Dong Chen, Xinda Qi +4

The past decade has witnessed many great successes of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) applications in agricultural systems, including weed control, plant disease diagn…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

O2RNet: Occluder-Occludee Relational Network for Robust Apple Detection in Clustered Orchard Environments

Pengyu Chu, Zhaojian Li, Kaixiang Zhang +3

Automated apple harvesting has attracted significant research interest in recent years due to its potential to revolutionize the apple industry, addressing the issues of shortage a…

cs.CV2022★ 3 cited

Deep Data Augmentation for Weed Recognition Enhancement: A Diffusion Probabilistic Model and Transfer Learning Based Approach

Dong Chen, Xinda Qi, Yu Zheng +2

Weed management plays an important role in many modern agricultural applications. Conventional weed control methods mainly rely on chemical herbicides or hand weeding, which are of…

cs.CV2021★ 6 cited

Performance Evaluation of Deep Transfer Learning on Multiclass Identification of Common Weed Species in Cotton Production Systems

Dong Chen, Yuzhen Lu, Zhaojiang Li +1

Precision weed management offers a promising solution for sustainable cropping systems through the use of chemical-reduced/non-chemical robotic weeding techniques, which apply suit…