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DBGCN: Dual-branch Graph Convolutional Network for organ instance inference on sparsely labeled 3D plant data.

Dawei Li1,2,3, Zhaoyi Zhou1, Si Yang4,5

  • 1School of Information and Intelligent Science, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, China.

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This study introduces a Dual-branch Graph Convolutional Network (DBGCN) for 3D crop phenotyping, significantly reducing manual annotation needs for organ segmentation in point clouds. The new method achieves high accuracy with minimal data labeling, advancing plant gene screening and germplasm identification.

Keywords:
Dual-branch graph convolutional networkOrgan instance segmentationPlant phenotypingPlant point cloudTransductive learning

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  • Plant Science
  • Machine Learning

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  • 3D crop phenotyping is crucial for plant gene screening and germplasm identification.
  • Organ segmentation in 3D crop point clouds is a key but labor-intensive step.
  • Current inductive deep learning methods require extensive manual data annotation, hindering progress.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based method for efficient organ segmentation in sparsely annotated 3D crop point clouds.
  • To overcome the limitations of manual data labeling in 3D crop phenotyping.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a Dual-branch Graph Convolutional Network (DBGCN) utilizing transductive learning.
  • DBGCN incorporates both static and dynamic graph convolutional operations on point clouds.
  • The network performs organ instance inference directly on featureless point clouds with sparse labels.

Main Results:

  • DBGCN achieved high node classification accuracy, outperforming mainstream GNNs and inductive deep architectures.
  • Achieved 93.00% mAcc on PlantNet with 1.95% manual annotation and 91.05% mAcc on Soybean-MVS with 4.88% manual annotation.
  • Demonstrated effectiveness on crop 3D data and potential for other point cloud segmentation tasks like street view.

Conclusions:

  • DBGCN offers an efficient solution for 3D crop organ segmentation with significantly reduced annotation requirements.
  • The fusion of static and dynamic graph convolutions enhances segmentation performance.
  • The developed method shows broad applicability beyond crop phenotyping.