AI RESEARCH
Positioning radiata pine branches requiring pruning by drone stereo vision
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2604.16480v1 Announce Type: new This paper presents a stereo-vision-based system mounted on a drone for detecting and localising radiata pine branches to autonomous pruning. The proposed pipeline comprises two stages: branch segmentation and depth estimation. For segmentation, YOLOv8, YOLOv9, and Mask R-CNN variants are compared on a custom dataset of 71 stereo image pairs captured with a ZED Mini camera.