ViewSparsifier: Killing Redundancy in Multi-View Plant Phenotyping

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08550v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:53:38 GMT
• Title: ViewSparsifier: Killing Redundancy in Multi-View Plant Phenotyping
• Authors: Robin-Nico Kampa, Fabian Deuser, Konrad Habel, Norbert Oswald,
• Abstract summary: Plant phenotyping involves analyzing observable characteristics of plants to better understand their growth, health, and development.<n>In the context of deep learning, this analysis is often approached through single-view classification or regression models.<n>To address this, the Growth Modelling (GroMo) Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2025 provides a multi-view dataset featuring multiple plants.
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• Abstract: Plant phenotyping involves analyzing observable characteristics of plants to better understand their growth, health, and development. In the context of deep learning, this analysis is often approached through single-view classification or regression models. However, these methods often fail to capture all information required for accurate estimation of target phenotypic traits, which can adversely affect plant health assessment and harvest readiness prediction. To address this, the Growth Modelling (GroMo) Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia 2025 provides a multi-view dataset featuring multiple plants and two tasks: Plant Age Prediction and Leaf Count Estimation. Each plant is photographed from multiple heights and angles, leading to significant overlap and redundancy in the captured information. To learn view-invariant embeddings, we incorporate 24 views, referred to as the selection vector, in a random selection. Our ViewSparsifier approach won both tasks. For further improvement and as a direction for future research, we also experimented with randomized view selection across all five height levels (120 views total), referred to as selection matrices.

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