As an important tropical cash crop,rubber trees play a key role in the rubber industry and ecosystem.However,a significant challenge in precision agriculture and refined management of rubber plantation lies in the lim...As an important tropical cash crop,rubber trees play a key role in the rubber industry and ecosystem.However,a significant challenge in precision agriculture and refined management of rubber plantation lies in the limitations of traditional point cloud segmentation methods,which struggle to accurately extract structural parameters and capture the spatial layout of individual rubber trees.Therefore,we propose an optimized dual-channel clustering method for the UAV LiDAR-based Rubber Tree Point Cloud Segmentation Network(RsegNet)for improved assessment of rubber tree architecture and traits.Firstly,we designed a cosine feature extraction network,termed CosineU-Net,to address the branch-and-leaf overlap problem by calculating the cosine similarity of the spatial and positional features of each point,leveraging deep learning approaches to improve feature representation.Secondly,we constructed a dual-channel clustering module reducing prediction error in rubber tree point cloud data,integrating multi-class association and background classification to tackle background interference.The cluster identification and separation accuracy in high-dimensional data processing is enhanced through a dy-namic clustering optimization algorithm.In our self-built dataset and across five regions of the FOR-instance forest dataset,RsegNet achieved the best performance compared to five state-of-the-art networks,reaching an F-score of 86.1%.This method calculated structural attributes including height,crown diameter,and volume for rubber trees in three areas under different environments in Danzhou City,Hainan Province,providing robust support for precise monitoring,plantation management,and health assessment.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(Grant No.ZDYF2025XDNY113)the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund(Grant No.1630032022007)+2 种基金the Special Fund for Hainan Excellent Team"Rubber Genetics and Breeding"(Grant No.20210203)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project(Grant No.2025JJ50385)in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62276276).
文摘As an important tropical cash crop,rubber trees play a key role in the rubber industry and ecosystem.However,a significant challenge in precision agriculture and refined management of rubber plantation lies in the limitations of traditional point cloud segmentation methods,which struggle to accurately extract structural parameters and capture the spatial layout of individual rubber trees.Therefore,we propose an optimized dual-channel clustering method for the UAV LiDAR-based Rubber Tree Point Cloud Segmentation Network(RsegNet)for improved assessment of rubber tree architecture and traits.Firstly,we designed a cosine feature extraction network,termed CosineU-Net,to address the branch-and-leaf overlap problem by calculating the cosine similarity of the spatial and positional features of each point,leveraging deep learning approaches to improve feature representation.Secondly,we constructed a dual-channel clustering module reducing prediction error in rubber tree point cloud data,integrating multi-class association and background classification to tackle background interference.The cluster identification and separation accuracy in high-dimensional data processing is enhanced through a dy-namic clustering optimization algorithm.In our self-built dataset and across five regions of the FOR-instance forest dataset,RsegNet achieved the best performance compared to five state-of-the-art networks,reaching an F-score of 86.1%.This method calculated structural attributes including height,crown diameter,and volume for rubber trees in three areas under different environments in Danzhou City,Hainan Province,providing robust support for precise monitoring,plantation management,and health assessment.
