OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Phenomics is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
A Mechanistic Model for Estimating Rice Photosynthetic Capacity and Stomatal Conductance from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	90
KDOSS-net: Knowledge distillation-based outpainting and semantic segmentation network for crop and weed images	73
Robust High-Throughput Phenotyping with Deep Segmentation Enabled by a Web-Based Annotator	63
Enhancing Green Fraction Estimation in Rice and Wheat Crops: A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation Approach	61
Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images	61
Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images	60
The Importance of Using Realistic 3D Canopy Models to Calculate Light Interception in the Field	57
Dynamic maize true leaf area index retrieval with KGCNN and TL and integrated 3D radiative transfer modeling for crop phenotyping	56
Phenotyping of Silique Morphology in Oilseed Rape Using Skeletonization with Hierarchical Segmentation	56
Location-guided lesions representation learning via image generation for assessing plant leaf diseases severity	44
Geographic-Scale Coffee Cherry Counting with Smartphones and Deep Learning	42
Identifying Regenerated Saplings by Stratifying Forest Overstory Using Airborne LiDAR Data	42
Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View	41
Enabling Breeding Selection for Biomass in Slash Pine Using UAV-Based Imaging	40
Practical Identifiability of Plant Growth Models: A Unifying Framework and Its Specification for Three Local Indices	39
Visualization and Quantitative Evaluation of Functional Structures of Soybean Root Nodules via Synchrotron X-ray Imaging	38
3DPotatoTwin: a paired potato tuber dataset for 3D multi-sensory fusion	38
Detection and Reconstruction of Passion Fruit Branches via CNN and Bidirectional Sector Search	38
The Dissection of Nitrogen Response Traits Using Drone Phenotyping and Dynamic Phenotypic Analysis to Explore N Responsiveness and Associated Genetic Loci in Wheat	37
EasyDAM_V2: Efficient Data Labeling Method for Multishape, Cross-Species Fruit Detection	36
Maturity Classification of Rapeseed Using Hyperspectral Image Combined with Machine Learning	36
Performance of stacking machine learning and volume model for improving corn above ground biomass prediction	34
High-throughput plant phenotyping identifies and discriminates biotic and abiotic stresses in tomato	34
Rapid acquisition of ionomic and morphological data from plant seeds through fast X-ray fluorescence microscopy and computer vision	34
Rape Yield Estimation Considering Non-Foliar Green Organs Based on the General Crop Growth Model	33

3dCAP-Wheat: An Open-Source Comprehensive Computational Framework Precisely Quantifies Wheat Foliar, Nonfoliar, and Canopy Photosynthesis	33
How Useful Is Image-Based Active Learning for Plant Organ Segmentation?	33
Drone-Based Digital Phenotyping to Evaluating Relative Maturity, Stand Count, and Plant Height in Dry Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	32
Spotibot: Rapid scoring of Botrytis lesions on rose petals using deep learning and mobile computing	31
Assessing the Storage Root Development of Cassava with a New Analysis Tool	31
Instance Segmentation and Berry Counting of Table Grape before Thinning Based on AS-SwinT	30
Wearable Sensor: An Emerging Data Collection Tool for Plant Phenotyping	30
PREPs: An Open-Source Software for High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping	30
TrichomeYOLO: A Neural Network for Automatic Maize Trichome Counting	29
RGB imaging and computer vision-based approaches for identifying spike number loci for wheat	29
Fruit Water Stress Index of Apple Measured by Means of Temperature-Annotated 3D Point Cloud	29
PDDD-PreTrain: A Series of Commonly Used Pre-Trained Models Support Image-Based Plant Disease Diagnosis	28
MLG-YOLO: A Model for Real-Time Accurate Detection and Localization of Winter Jujube in Complex Structured Orchard Environments	28
SMICGS: A novel snapshot multispectral imaging sensor for quantitative monitoring of crop growth	26
Boosting leaf trait estimation from reflectance spectra by elucidating the transferability of PLSR models	26
Leaf Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) Prediction with Phenotypic Traits in Four Species: Development of a Novel Measuring and Analyzing Framework	25
Phenotyping of Panicle Number and Shape in Rice Breeding Materials Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imagery	25
A Multi-Target Regression Method to Predict Element Concentrations in Tomato Leaves Using Hyperspectral Imaging	24
Time-Series Field Phenotyping of Soybean Growth Analysis by Combining Multimodal Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling	24
Multi-granularity alignment for crop diseases detection	23
PhenoGazer: A high-throughput phenotyping system to track plant stress responses using hyperspectral reflectance, nighttime chlorophyll fluorescence and RGB imaging in controlled environments	23
Can Distributed Ledgers Help to Overcome the Need of Labeled Data for Agricultural Machine Learning Tasks?	23
High-Throughput Field Plant Phenotyping: A Self-Supervised Sequential CNN Method to Segment Overlapping Plants	22
A Generic Model to Estimate Wheat LAI over Growing Season Regardless of the Soil-Type Background	22
Characterization and Identification of NPK Stress in Rice Using Terrestrial Hyperspectral Images	21
3D U-Net Segmentation Improves Root System Reconstruction from 3D MRI Images in Automated and Manual Virtual Reality Work Flows	21
Functional–Structural Plant Model “GreenLab”: A State-of-the-Art Review	21
Quantifying Contributions of Different Factors to Canopy Photosynthesis in 2 Maize Varieties: Development of a Novel 3D Canopy Modeling Pipeline	20
Application of Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging with Machine Learning for High-Throughput Plant Heavy Metal Stress Phenotyping: A Review	20
GSP-AI: An AI-Powered Platform for Identifying Key Growth Stages and the Vegetative-to-Reproductive Transition in Wheat Using Trilateral Drone Imagery and Meteorological Data	20
Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of rice blast and brown spot diseases using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging	19
Noninvasive Detection of Salt Stress in Cotton Seedlings by Combining Multicolor Fluorescence–Multispectral Reflectance Imaging with EfficientNet-OB2	19
Segmenting vegetation from UAV images via spectral reconstruction in complex field environments	19
Fitting maximum crown width height of Chinese fir through ensemble learning combined with fine spatial competition	18
A keypoint-based method for detecting weed growth points in corn field environments	18
Informed-Learning-Guided Visual Question Answering Model of Crop Disease	17
CVRP: A rice image dataset with high-quality annotations for image segmentation and plant phenomics research	17
From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops	17
TM-WSNet: A precise segmentation method for individual rubber trees based on UAV LiDAR point cloud	17
Integrating UAV remote sensing and semi-supervised learning for early-stage maize seedling monitoring and geolocation	17
Integrating 3D Canopy Reconstruction to Assess Photosynthetic and Carbon Sequestration Responses of Larch Plantations to Drought Stress	16
UAV-Assisted Dynamic Monitoring of Wheat Uniformity toward Yield and Biomass Estimation	16
Volumetric Deep Learning-Based Precision Phenotyping of Gene-Edited Tomato for Vertical Farming	16
Automatic 3D Plant Organ Instance Segmentation Method Based on PointNeXt and Quickshift++	15
Quantification of the Cumulative Shading Capacity in a Maize–Soybean Intercropping System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	15
panomiX: Investigating Mechanisms Of Trait Emergence Through Multi-Omics Data Integration	15
Point Cloud Completion of Plant Leaves under Occlusion Conditions Based on Deep Learning	14
Benchmarking Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning Methods for Image-Based Plant Phenotyping	14
The blessing of Depth Anything: An almost unsupervised approach to crop segmentation with depth-informed pseudo labeling	14
AFM-YOLOv8s: An Accurate, Fast, and Highly Robust Model for Detection of Sporangia of Plasmopara viticola with Various Morphological Variants	14

Near-infrared spectroscopy as a high-throughput phenotyping method for fusiform rust resistance in loblolly pine	13
Efficient Noninvasive FHB Estimation using RGB Images from a Novel Multiyear, Multirater Dataset	13
Three-Dimensional Leaf Edge Reconstruction Combining Two- and Three-Dimensional Approaches	13
Semi-supervised Counting of Grape Berries in the Field Based on Density Mutual Exclusion	13
Combinatorial Maps, a New Framework to Model Agroforestry Systems	13
Root System Traits Contribute to Variability and Plasticity in Response to Phosphorus Fertilization in 2 Field-Grown Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] Cultivars	13
Panoptic segmentation for complete labeling of fruit microstructure in 3D micro-CT images with deep learning	13
CSNet: A Count-Supervised Network via Multiscale MLP-Mixer for Wheat Ear Counting	13
Practical Considerations and Limitations of Using Leaf and Canopy Temperature Measurements as a Stomatal Conductance Proxy: Sensitivity across Environmental Conditions, Scale, and Sample Size	12
Corrigendum to “Automatic Fruit Morphology Phenome and Genetic Analysis: An Application in the Octoploid Strawberry”	12
WITHDRAWN: Targeted integrating hyperspectral and metabolomic data with spectral indices and metabolite content models for efficient salt-tolerant phenotype discrimination in Medicago truncatula	12
Three-dimensional reconstruction of densely planted rice seedlings based on MultiView images	12
The Global Wheat Full Semantic Organ Segmentation (GWFSS) dataset	12
Bridging Time-series Image Phenotyping and Functional–Structural Plant Modeling to Predict Adventitious Root System Architecture	12
Counting Canola: Toward Generalizable Aerial Plant Detection Models	12
Potential of Establishing the Universal Critical Nitrogen Dilution Curve for Japonica Rice	12
A Precise Image-Based Tomato Leaf Disease Detection Approach Using PLPNet	12