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most citedTowards agricultural autonomy: crop row detection under varying field conditions using deep learning

11 citations · 22 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.RO2026

Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigation

Robel Mamo, Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak +1

While visual navigation has been extensively studied in agricultural robotics, most existing systems assume daytime conditions. In fact, deploying autonomous robots at night offers…

cs.CV2026

Semantics-Guided Multimodal Masked Autoencoder Pretraining for 3D BEV Object Detection

Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma, Rajitha de Silva, Marc Hanheide +2

Accurate 3D bird's-eye view (BEV) object detection is essential for autonomous driving, and depends strongly on effective multimodal representations from complementary sensors such…

cs.CV2026

Calibration-Informative Region Selection for Online LiDAR--Camera Calibration in Agricultural Environments

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak

Reliable multi-modal calibration requires identifying which observations truly constrain the extrinsic parameters and which ones mainly add noise or ambiguity. In this paper, we pr…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

SPARROW: Smart Precision Agriculture Robot for Ridding of Weeds

Dhanushka Balasingham, Sadeesha Samarathunga, Gayantha Godakanda Arachchige +5

The advancements in precision agriculture are vital to support the increasing demand for global food supply. Precision spot spraying is a major step towards reducing chemical usage…

cs.RO2023

A Vision-Based Navigation System for Arable Fields

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Junfeng Gao

Vision-based navigation systems in arable fields are an underexplored area in agricultural robot navigation. Vision systems deployed in arable fields face challenges such as fluctu…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Leaving the Lines Behind: Vision-Based Crop Row Exit for Agricultural Robot Navigation

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Junfeng Gao

Usage of purely vision based solutions for row switching is not well explored in existing vision based crop row navigation frameworks. This method only uses RGB images for local fe…

cs.CV2022

Vision based Crop Row Navigation under Varying Field Conditions in Arable Fields

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Junfeng Gao

Accurate crop row detection is often challenged by the varying field conditions present in real-world arable fields. Traditional colour based segmentation is unable to cater for al…

cs.CV2022★ 8 cited

Deep learning-based Crop Row Detection for Infield Navigation of Agri-Robots

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Gang Wang +1

Autonomous navigation in agricultural environments is challenged by varying field conditions that arise in arable fields. State-of-the-art solutions for autonomous navigation in su…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Towards Infield Navigation: leveraging simulated data for crop row detection

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Junfeng Gao

Agricultural datasets for crop row detection are often bound by their limited number of images. This restricts the researchers from developing deep learning based models for precis…

cs.CV2021★ 11 cited

Towards agricultural autonomy: crop row detection under varying field conditions using deep learning

Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak, Junfeng Gao

This paper presents a novel metric to evaluate the robustness of deep learning based semantic segmentation approaches for crop row detection under different field conditions encoun…