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ArticlePlant phenomics (Washington, D.C.)2026

SAM-CLIP-Thermal: Leveraging large multimodal models for reliable and scalable annotation in thermal image segmentation for field plant phenotyping.

Yiyuan Lin, Chenjiao Tan, Changying Li, Yu Jiang

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Yiyuan LinSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duffield College of Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA.
Chenjiao TanDepartment of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
Changying LiDepartment of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA.
Yu JiangHorticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell AgriTech, Cornell University, Geneva, NY, 14456, USA.

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Thermal imaging enables non-invasive assessment of canopy temperature, an essential indicator of plant stress, yet the lack of color cues and strong shadow interference make plant segmentation in thermal images difficult. Recent advances in foundation models have demonstrated improved performance and generalizability across applications, showing promise for domain-specific applications with limited annotated datasets such as plant segmentation in thermal images. This study investigates large multimodal models (LMMs) for thermal image segmentation in plant phenotyping. Building upon the SAM-CLIP framework, we design a unified pipeline spanning zero-shot inference, few-shot and low-shot fine-tuning, and active learning to maximize accuracy with minimal supervision. Evaluations on two thermal datasets, LadyBird Brassica and UGA Brassica, demonstrate robust performance after minimal adaptation across both datasets and superior performance compared with baselines, achieving

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Active learningCLIPDatasetLarge multimodal modelsSAMThermal image segmentationTransfer learning

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