Published March 25, 2024 | Version v1
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FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Framework

  • 1. ROR icon Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2. ROR icon Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
  • 3. ROR icon University of Bamberg

Description

We introduce FruitNeRF, a unified novel fruit counting framework that leverages state-of-the-art view synthesis methods to count any fruit type directly in 3D. Our framework takes an unordered set of posed images captured by a monocular camera and segments fruit in each image. To make our system independent of the fruit type, we employ a foundation model that generates binary segmentation masks for any fruit. Utilizing both modalities, RGB and semantic, we train a semantic neural radiance field. Through uniform volume sampling of the implicit Fruit Field, we obtain fruit-only point clouds. By applying cascaded clustering on the extracted point cloud, our approach achieves precise fruit count. The use of neural radiance fields provides significant advantages over conventional methods such as object tracking or optical flow, as the counting itself is lifted into 3D. Our method prevents double counting fruit and avoids counting irrelevant fruit. We evaluate our methodology using both real-world and synthetic datasets. The real-world dataset consists of three apple trees with manually counted ground truths, a benchmark apple dataset with one row and ground truth fruit location, while the synthetic dataset comprises various fruit types including apple, plum, lemon, pear, peach, and mangoes. Additionally, we assess the performance of fruit counting using the foundation model compared to a U-Net. 

Notes

Source Code: https://github.com/meyerls/FruitNeRF

Project Page: https://meyerls.github.io/fruit_nerf/

 

Funding:

This project is funded by the 5G innovation program of the German Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport under the funding code 165GU103B.

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