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ArticlePlant phenomics (Washington, D.C.)2025

IPENS: Interactive unsupervised framework for rapid plant phenotyping extraction via NeRF-SAM2 fusion.

Wentao Song, He Huang, Fang Qu, Jiaqi Zhang, Longhui Fang, Yuwei Hao, Chenyang Peng, Youqiang Sun

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Wentao SongHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
He HuangHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Fang QuHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Jiaqi ZhangHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Longhui FangHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Yuwei HaoHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Chenyang PengHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.
Youqiang SunHefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, 230031, China.

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Abstract

Advanced plant phenotyping technologies are vital for trait improvement and accelerating intelligent breeding. Due to the species diversity of plants, existing methods heavily rely on large-scale high-precision manually annotated data. For self-occluded objects at the grain level, unsupervised methods often prove ineffective. This study proposes IPENS, an interactive unsupervised multi-target point cloud extraction method. It utilizes radiance field information to lift 2D masks, segmented by SAM2 (Segment Anything Model 2), into 3D space for target point cloud extraction. A multi-target collaborative optimization strategy addresses the challenge of segmenting multiple targets from a single interaction. On a rice dataset, IPENS achieves a grain-level segmentation mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 63.72 ​%. For phenotypic trait estimation, it achieves a grain voxel volume coefficient of determination

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3D instance segmentationNeRFRice and wheat phenotypeSAM2Unsupervised

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