OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Phenomics is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
DEKR-SPrior: An Efficient Bottom-Up Keypoint Detection Model for Accurate Pod Phenotyping in Soybean	52
Robust High-Throughput Phenotyping with Deep Segmentation Enabled by a Web-Based Annotator	47
Phenotyping of Silique Morphology in Oilseed Rape Using Skeletonization with Hierarchical Segmentation	46
Segment Anything for Comprehensive Analysis of Grapevine Cluster Architecture and Berry Properties	44
A Mechanistic Model for Estimating Rice Photosynthetic Capacity and Stomatal Conductance from Sun-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	40
Drone-Based Harvest Data Prediction Can Reduce On-Farm Food Loss and Improve Farmer Income	39
Recognition and Localization of Maize Leaf and Stalk Trajectories in RGB Images Based on Point-Line Net	38
Semi-Self-Supervised Learning for Semantic Segmentation in Images with Dense Patterns	36
Analyzing Nitrogen Effects on Rice Panicle Development by Panicle Detection and Time-Series Tracking	36
Combining High-Resolution Imaging, Deep Learning, and Dynamic Modeling to Separate Disease and Senescence in Wheat Canopies	34
To What Extent Does Yellow Rust Infestation Affect Remotely Sensed Nitrogen Status?	30
Enhancing Green Fraction Estimation in Rice and Wheat Crops: A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Semantic Segmentation Approach	29
Noninvasive Detection of Salt Stress in Cotton Seedlings by Combining Multicolor Fluorescence–Multispectral Reflectance Imaging with EfficientNet-OB2	29
Informed-Learning-Guided Visual Question Answering Model of Crop Disease	27
High-Throughput Yield Prediction of Diallele Crossed Sugar Beet in a Breeding Field Using UAV-Derived Growth Dynamics	26
Shortwave Radiation Calculation for Forest Plots Using Airborne LiDAR Data and Computer Graphics	24
Coupling PROSPECT with Prior Estimation of Leaf Structure to Improve the Retrieval of Leaf Nitrogen Content in Ginkgo from Bidirectional Reflectance Factor Spectra	23
Handling the Challenges of Small-Scale Labeled Data and Class Imbalances in Classifying the N and K Statuses of Rubber Leaves Using Hyperspectroscopy Techniques	23
The State of the Art in Root System Architecture Image Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence: A Review	23
SCAG: A Stratified, Clustered, and Growing-Based Algorithm for Soybean Branch Angle Extraction and Ideal Plant Architecture Evaluation	22
Deep Learning Methods Using Imagery from a Smartphone for Recognizing Sorghum Panicles and Counting Grains at a Plant Level	22
Pre-symptomatic diagnosis of rice blast and brown spot diseases using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging	21
Phenotyping Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) Root Structure Architecture via Integrating Confident Machine Learning with ResNet-18	21
Fitting maximum crown width height of Chinese fir through ensemble learning combined with fine spatial competition	21
DC2Net: An Asian Soybean Rust Detection Model Based on Hyperspectral Imaging and Deep Learning	21

Integrating UAV remote sensing and semi-supervised learning for early-stage maize seedling monitoring and geolocation	20
Panicle-Cloud: An Open and AI-Powered Cloud Computing Platform for Quantifying Rice Panicles from Drone-Collected Imagery to Enable the Classification of Yield Production in Rice	19
The Importance of Using Realistic 3D Canopy Models to Calculate Light Interception in the Field	19
Design and implementation of a high-throughput field phenotyping robot for acquiring multisensor data in wheat	18
A hybrid method for water stress evaluation of rice with the radiative transfer model and multidimensional imaging	18
Hyperspectral Remote Sensing for Phenotyping the Physiological Drought Response of Common and Tepary Bean	17
Deep Learning Enables Instant and Versatile Estimation of Rice Yield Using Ground-Based RGB Images	17
Multispectral Drone Imagery and SRGAN for Rapid Phenotypic Mapping of Individual Chinese Cabbage Plants	16
UAV-Assisted Dynamic Monitoring of Wheat Uniformity toward Yield and Biomass Estimation	16
From Neglecting to Including Cultivar-Specific Per Se Temperature Responses: Extending the Concept of Thermal Time in Field Crops	16
Unsupervised Plot-Scale LAI Phenotyping via UAV-Based Imaging, Modelling, and Machine Learning	15
CVRP: A rice image dataset with high-quality annotations for image segmentation and plant phenomics research	15
Rice Plant Counting, Locating, and Sizing Method Based on High-Throughput UAV RGB Images	14
Auto-LIA: The Automated Vision-Based Leaf Inclination Angle Measurement System Improves Monitoring of Plant Physiology	14
Microfluidic Device for Simple Diagnosis of Plant Growth Condition by Detecting miRNAs from Filtered Plant Extracts	13
Improved Field-Based Soybean Seed Counting and Localization with Feature Level Considered	13
Noninvasive Abiotic Stress Phenotyping of Vascular Plant in Each Vegetative Organ View	13
Development and Validation of a Deep Learning Based Automated Minirhizotron Image Analysis Pipeline	13
Deep Learning for Strawberry Canopy Delineation and Biomass Prediction from High-Resolution Images	13
Identification of phenotypic and transcriptomic signatures underpinning maize crown root systems	12
Multi-Scale Attention Network for Vertical Seed Distribution in Soybean Breeding Fields	12
Estimating Leaf Nitrogen Accumulation Considering Vertical Heterogeneity Using Multiangular Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Remote Sensing in Wheat	12
AFM-YOLOv8s: An Accurate, Fast, and Highly Robust Model for Detection of Sporangia of Plasmopara viticola with Various Morphological Variants	11
Dynamic maize true leaf area index retrieval with KGCNN and TL and integrated 3D radiative transfer modeling for crop phenotyping	11
A Field-to-Parameter Pipeline for Analyzing and Simulating Root System Architecture of Woody Perennials: Application to Grapevine Rootstocks	11
BFP Net: Balanced Feature Pyramid Network for Small Apple Detection in Complex Orchard Environment	10
Geographic-Scale Coffee Cherry Counting with Smartphones and Deep Learning	10
Spectrometric Prediction of Nitrogen Content in Different Tissues of Slash Pine Trees	10
SDC-DeepLabv3+: Lightweight and Precise Localization Algorithm for Safflower-Harvesting Robots	10
Prediction of the Maturity of Greenhouse Grapes Based on Imaging Technology	10
Enabling Breeding Selection for Biomass in Slash Pine Using UAV-Based Imaging	10
Global Wheat Head Detection Challenges: Winning Models and Application for Head Counting	9
Quantification of the Cumulative Shading Capacity in a Maize–Soybean Intercropping System Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle	9
Rotating Stomata Measurement Based on Anchor-Free Object Detection and Stomata Conductance Calculation	9
Identifying Regenerated Saplings by Stratifying Forest Overstory Using Airborne LiDAR Data	9
PAT (Periderm Assessment Toolkit): A Quantitative and Large-Scale Screening Method for Periderm Measurements	9
Practical Identifiability of Plant Growth Models: A Unifying Framework and Its Specification for Three Local Indices	9
Application of Improved UNet and EnglightenGAN for Segmentation and Reconstruction of In Situ Roots	9
Evaluating the Influence of Row Orientation and Crown Morphology on Growth of Pinus taeda L. with Drone-Based Airborne Laser Scanning	9