O2RNet: Occluder-Occludee Relational Network for Robust Apple Detection in Clustered Orchard Environments

no code implementations • 8 Mar 2023 • Pengyu Chu, Zhaojian Li, Kaixiang Zhang, Dong Chen, Kyle Lammers, Renfu Lu

One key technology to fully enable efficient automated harvesting is accurate and robust apple detection, which is challenging due to complex orchard environments that involve varying lighting conditions and foliage/branch occlusions.

DeepApple: Deep Learning-based Apple Detection using a Suppression Mask R-CNN

no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Pengyu Chu, Zhaojian Li, Kyle Lammers, Renfu Lu, Xiaoming Liu

Robotic apple harvesting has received much research attention in the past few years due to growing shortage and rising cost in labor.