# Mushroom Segmentation and 3D Pose Estimation from Point Clouds using Fully Convolutional Geometric Features and Implicit Pose Encoding

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12144 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.12144/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 2 of its 11 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 17 Apr 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [4D Spatio-Temporal ConvNets: Minkowski Convolutional Neural Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.08755/) (2019)
- [Mushrooms Detection, Localization and 3D Pose Estimation using RGB-D Sensor for Robotic-picking Applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.02837/) (2022)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation in Agricultural Settings Using a Lattice-Deformation Framework and Diffusion-Augmented Synthetic Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.24636/) (2025)
- [A Scalable Pipeline Combining Procedural 3D Graphics and Guided Diffusion for Photorealistic Synthetic Training Data Generation in White Button Mushroom Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.08747/) (2025)
- [Mind the Shape Gap: A Benchmark and Baseline for Deformation-Aware 6D Pose Estimation of Agricultural Produce](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.27429/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Modern agricultural applications rely more and more on deep learning solutions. However, training well-performing deep networks requires a large amount of annotated data that may not be available and in the case of 3D annotation may not even be feasible for human annotators. In this work, we develop a deep learning approach to segment mushrooms and estimate their pose on 3D data, in the form of point clouds acquired by depth sensors. To circumvent the annotation problem, we create a synthetic dataset of mushroom scenes, where we are fully aware of 3D information, such as the pose of each mushroom. The proposed network has a fully convolutional backbone, that parses sparse 3D data, and predicts pose information that implicitly defines both instance segmentation and pose estimation task. We have validated the effectiveness of the proposed implicit-based approach for a synthetic test set, as well as provided qualitative results for a small set of real acquired point clouds with depth sensors. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/georgeretsi/mushroom-pose.