Multi-camera fusion and bird-eye view location mapping for deep learning-based cattle behavior monitoring
December 2025
Cattle behavioral monitoring is an integral component of the modern infrastructure of the livestock industry. Ensuring cattle well-being requires precise observation, typically using wearable devices...
Rapid detection and visualization of physiological signatures in cotton leaves under Verticillium wilt stress
December 2025
Verticillium wilt poses a severe threat to cotton growth and significantly impacts cotton yield. It is of significant importance to detect Verticillium wilt stress in time. In this study, the effects...
A new tool to improve the computation of animal kinetic activity indices in precision poultry farming
December 2025
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) emerges as a promising solution for revolutionising farming by enabling real-time automated monitoring of animals through smart technologies. PLF provides farmers with...
Improving accuracy and generalization in single kernel oil characteristics prediction in maize using NIR-HSI and a knowledge-injected spectral tabtransformer
December 2025
Near-infrared spectroscopy hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI) is widely used for seed component prediction due to its non-destructive and rapid nature. However, existing models often suffer from limited...
EU-GAN: A root inpainting network for improving 2D soil-cultivated root phenotyping
December 2025
Beyond its fundamental roles in nutrient uptake and plant anchorage, the root system critically influences crop development and stress tolerance. Rhizobox enables in situ and nondestructive phenotypic...
FGPointKAN++ point cloud segmentation and adaptive key cutting plane recognition for cow body size measurement
December 2025
Accurate and efficient body size measurement is essential for health assessment and production management in modern animal husbandry. In order to realize the segmentation of the point clouds at the...
Recognizing and localizing chicken behaviors in videos based on spatiotemporal feature learning
December 2025
Timely acquisition of chicken behavioral information is crucial for assessing chicken health status and production performance. Video-based behavior recognition has emerged as a primary technique for...
VMGP: A unified variational auto-encoder based multi-task model for multi-phenotype, multi-environment, and cross-population genomic selection in plants
December 2025
Plant breeding stands as a cornerstone for agricultural productivity and the safeguarding of food security. The advent of Genomic Selection heralds a new epoch in breeding, characterized by its capacity...
End-to-end detection of cough and snore based on ResNet18-TF for breeder laying hens: A field study
Available online 4 November 2025
Cough and snore are the most representative vocalizations for chicken respiratory diseases, which severely restrict poultry health due to highly contagious and lethal characteristics. Nighttime inspection...
Hyperspectral estimation of leaf chlorophyll content in wine grape using transfer learning and three-dimensional radiation transfer model
Available online 4 November 2025
Accurate and timely monitoring of leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) in wine grapes is essential for assessing their photosynthetic status, optimizing management and planting practices, and improving both...
Organ3DNet: A deep network for segmenting organ semantics and instances from dense plant point clouds
Available online 3 November 2025
Worldwide food shortage has put the plant phenotyping research to the spotlight because phenotyping enhances crop yield under limited land use by accelerating the cycle of modern breeding. The prerequisite...
Transfer learning-based soybean LAI estimations by integrating PROSAIL, UAV, and PlanetScope imagery
Available online 2 November 2025
Accurate Leaf Area Index (LAI) estimations at the soybean plot scale is achievable using high-resolution Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery and field measurement samples. However, the limited coverage...
Improved YOLOv8 for multi-colored apple fruit instance segmentation and 3D localization
Available online 31 October 2025
Robotic apple harvesting requires precise instance segmentation and 3D localization, especially for multi-colored apples under complex orchard conditions with occlusions and variable lighting. Current...
PlaneSegNet: A deep learning network with plane attention for plant point cloud segmentation in agricultural environments
Available online 30 October 2025
Accurately extracting plant point clouds from complex agricultural environments is essential for high-throughput phenotyping in smart farming. However, existing methods face significant challenges when...
STGMAE: A GNSS data-driven pre-training spatiotemporal graph masked autoencoder for agricultural machinery trajectory operation mode identification
Available online 24 October 2025
Utilizing spatiotemporal features in massive amounts of trajectory data to identify the operation mode of agricultural machinery trajectories is a key task in precision agriculture. Most of the previous...
A lightweight keypoint detection model-based method for strawberry recognition and picking point localization in multi-occlusion scenes
Available online 24 October 2025
Strawberries grown on elevated stands usually suffer from fruit occlusion issues, which severely limit the implementation of strawberry recognition and picking point localization, and the embedded devices...
AI-driven aquaculture: A review of technological innovations and their sustainable impacts
September 2025
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in aquaculture has been identified as a transformative force, enhancing various operational aspects from water quality management to genetic optimization....
End-to-end deep fusion of hyperspectral imaging and computer vision techniques for rapid detection of wheat seed quality
September 2025
Seeds are essential to the agri-food industry. However, their quality is vulnerable to biotic and abiotic stresses during production and storage, leading to various types of deterioration. Real-time...
Boosting grapevine phenological stages prediction based on climatic data by pseudo-labeling approach
September 2025
Predicting grapevine phenological stages (GPHS) is critical for precisely managing vineyard operations, including plant disease treatments, pruning, and harvest. Solutions commonly used to address viticulture...
Unveiling the drivers contributing to global wheat yield shocks through quantile regression
September 2025
Sudden reductions in crop yield (i.e., yield shocks) severely disrupt the food supply, intensify food insecurity, depress farmers' welfare, and worsen a country's economic conditions. Here, we study...
Transformer-based audio-visual multimodal fusion for fine-grained recognition of individual sow nursing behaviour
September 2025
Nursing behaviour and the calling-to-nurse sound are crucial indicators for assessing sow maternal behaviour and nursing status. However, accurately identifying these behaviours for individual sows...
Effective methods for mitigate the impact of light occlusion on the accuracy of online cabbage recognition in open fields
September 2025
To address the low recognition accuracy of open-field vegetables under light occlusion, this study focused on cabbage and developed an online target recognition model based on deep learning. Using Yolov8n...
Assessing particle application in multi-pass overlapping scenarios with variable rate centrifugal fertilizer spreaders for precision agriculture
September 2025
Environmental impacts and economic demands are driving the development of variable rate fertilization (VRF) technology for precision agriculture. Despite the advantages of a simple structure, low cost...
Mapping of soil sampling sites using terrain and hydrological attributes
September 2025
Efficient soil sampling is essential for effective soil management and research on soil health. Traditional site selection methods are labor-intensive and fail to capture soil variability comprehensively....
Enhancing maize LAI estimation accuracy using unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing and deep learning techniques
September 2025
The leaf area index (LAI) is crucial for precision agriculture management. UAV remote sensing technology has been widely applied for LAI estimation. Although spectral features are widely used for LAI...