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20142023
most citedAutonomous Sweet Pepper Harvesting for Protected Cropping Systems

266 citations · 489 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.RO2023

BonnBot-I: A Precise Weed Management and Crop Monitoring Platform

Alireza Ahmadi, Michael Halstead, Chris McCool

Cultivation and weeding are two of the primary tasks performed by farmers today. A recent challenge for weeding is the desire to reduce herbicide and pesticide treatments while mai…

cs.CV2023★ 3 cited

Panoptic One-Click Segmentation: Applied to Agricultural Data

Patrick Zimmer, Michael Halstead, Chris McCool

In weed control, precision agriculture can help to greatly reduce the use of herbicides, resulting in both economical and ecological benefits. A key element is the ability to locat…

cs.RO2023★ 1 cited

Panoptic Mapping with Fruit Completion and Pose Estimation for Horticultural Robots

Yue Pan, Federico Magistri, Thomas Läbe +5

Monitoring plants and fruits at high resolution play a key role in the future of agriculture. Accurate 3D information can pave the way to a diverse number of robotic applications i…

cs.RO2022

Explicitly incorporating spatial information to recurrent networks for agriculture

Claus Smitt, Michael Halstead, Alireza Ahmadi +1

In agriculture, the majority of vision systems perform still image classification. Yet, recent work has highlighted the potential of spatial and temporal cues as a rich source of i…

cs.RO2021★ 2 cited

Towards Autonomous Visual Navigation in Arable Fields

Alireza Ahmadi, Michael Halstead, Chris McCool

Autonomous navigation of a robot in agricultural fields is essential for every task from crop monitoring to weed management and fertilizer application. Many current approaches rely…

cs.RO2021

Combining Local and Global Viewpoint Planning for Fruit Coverage

Tobias Zaenker, Chris Lehnert, Chris McCool +1

Obtaining 3D sensor data of complete plants or plant parts (e.g., the crop or fruit) is difficult due to their complex structure and a high degree of occlusion. However, especially…