Sample frames for this project are available under NDA. Write to bilal@wortel.ai and we will share the relevant before and after pairs.
Challenges
- Detecting small apples among dense leaves and branches.
- Overlapping and partially occluded apples had to be handled individually.
- Apples appeared at widely different distances and viewing angles.
- Keeping bounding box boundaries tight around individual apples.
- Similarly coloured objects and background elements were easily mistaken for fruit.
Related work
Ground Cover Quadrat Segmentation
2,275 cover-crop plot images annotated in Labelbox: plot corners boxed, then every pixel classed as groundcover, weed, residue, crop or soil.
Almond Tree Detection
Bounding boxes around individual almond trees in top-down drone imagery, where shadows and neighbouring vegetation mimicked real trees.
Broccoli Stand Count
Bounding boxes on individual broccoli plants for automated stand counting, separating closely packed plants from surrounding weeds.