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Plant and agricultural 3D reconstruction

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Keywords: plant, reconstruction, phenotyping, agricultural, fruit

Key facts. Plant and agricultural 3D reconstruction: 38 papers on arXiv since 2023 (data through 19 Oct 2026). 8 of its 38 mapped papers (21%) cite “High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Plants using Neural Radiance Field” (2023, arXiv 2311.04154).

What’s new

Nothing new since 1 Oct. Latest: 22 Sep 2026.

Foundations

Most cited by papers here

  1. High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Plants using Neural Radiance Field2023cited by 8 here
  2. FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Framework2024cited by 8 here
  3. PAg-NeRF: Towards fast and efficient end-to-end panoptic 3D representations for agricultural robotics2023cited by 6 here
  4. Wheat3DGS: In-field 3D Reconstruction, Instance Segmentation and Phenotyping of Wheat Heads with Gaussian Splatting2025cited by 5 here
  5. A Survey on 3D Reconstruction Techniques in Plant Phenotyping: From Classical Methods to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and Beyond2025cited by 5 here

Lineage

The papers this direction builds on, oldest first.

Each paper on the line cites the one before.

  1. 2021NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstructioncited by 4 here
  2. 2022TensoRF: Tensorial Radiance Fieldscited by 4 here
  3. 20233D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Renderingcited by 20 here
  4. 2023SuGaR: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Mesh Reconstruction and High-Quality Mesh Renderingcited by 6 here
  5. 20242D Gaussian Splatting for Geometrically Accurate Radiance Fieldscited by 9 here
  6. 2025Wheat3DGS: In-field 3D Reconstruction, Instance Segmentation and Phenotyping of Wheat Heads with Gaussian Splattingcited by 5 here
  7. 2025A Survey on 3D Reconstruction Techniques in Plant Phenotyping: From Classical Methods to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and Beyondcited by 5 here
17 more it builds on, not in this chain
  1. 2021Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 7 here
  2. 2021In-Place Scene Labelling and Understanding with Implicit Scene Representationcited by 3 here
  3. 2021AA-RMVSNet: Adaptive Aggregation Recurrent Multi-view Stereo Networkcited by 3 here
  4. 2021Mip-NeRF 360: Unbounded Anti-Aliased Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 4 here
  5. 2022Block-NeRF: Scalable Large Scene Neural View Synthesiscited by 3 here
  6. 2022NeRF: Neural Radiance Field in 3D Vision: A Comprehensive Review (Updated Post-Gaussian Splatting)cited by 3 here
  7. 2023Nerfstudio: A Modular Framework for Neural Radiance Field Developmentcited by 15 here
  8. 2023PAg-NeRF: Towards fast and efficient end-to-end panoptic 3D representations for agricultural roboticscited by 6 here
  9. 2023High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Plants using Neural Radiance Fieldcited by 8 here
  10. 2023Mip-Splatting: Alias-free 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 3 here
  11. 2023Gaussian Grouping: Segment and Edit Anything in 3D Scenescited by 4 here
  12. 2023DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easycited by 3 here
  13. 2023LangSplat: 3D Language Gaussian Splattingcited by 3 here
  14. 2024A Survey on 3D Gaussian Splattingcited by 3 here
  15. 2024Evaluating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for 3D Plant Geometry Reconstruction in Field Conditionscited by 4 here
  16. 2024Hyperspectral Neural Radiance Fieldscited by 3 here
  17. 2024FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Frameworkcited by 8 here

The 24 most cited of 211.

Browse

30 of 38, ranked 6–35

  1. 6Evaluating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for 3D Plant Geometry Reconstruction in Field Conditions20244
  2. 7AgriNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Agriculture in Challenging Lighting Conditions20243
  3. 8Object-Centric 3D Gaussian Splatting for Strawberry Plant Reconstruction and Phenotyping20252
  4. 9OctoSplat: Hybrid OctoMap-Gaussian Splatting for Active Semantic Mapping and Phenotyping with Horticultural Robots20261
  5. 10PlantDreamer: Achieving Realistic 3D Plant Models with Diffusion-Guided Gaussian Splatting20251
  6. 11Reconstruction Using the Invisible: Intuition from NIR and Metadata for Enhanced 3D Gaussian Splatting20251
  7. 12AgriGS-SLAM: Orchard Mapping Across Seasons via Multi-View Gaussian Splatting SLAM20251
  8. 13SSL-NBV: A Self-Supervised-Learning-Based Next-Best-View algorithm for Efficient 3D Plant Reconstruction by a Robot20241
  9. 14Biomass phenotyping of oilseed rape through UAV multi-view oblique imaging with 3DGS and SAM model20241
  10. 15CropCraft: Complete Structural Characterization of Crop Plants From Images20241
All 30
  1. 163D Reconstruction in Noisy Agricultural Environments: A Bayesian Optimization Perspective for View Planning20231
  2. 17LeafFit: Plant Assets Creation from 3D Gaussian Splatting20260
  3. 18HS-3D-NeRF: 3D Surface and Hyperspectral Reconstruction From Stationary Hyperspectral Images Using Multi-Channel NeRFs20260
  4. 19Sapling-NeRF: Geo-Localised Sapling Reconstruction in Forests for Ecological Monitoring20260
  5. 203D Reconstruction and Knowledge Distillation to Improve Multi-View Image Models to Explore Spike Volume Estimation in Wheat20260
  6. 21The Turning Point of 3D Plant Phenotyping: 3D Foundation Models Enable Minute-to-Second Cross-Crop Reconstruction and Beyond20260
  7. 22Receding-Horizon Next-Best-View Planner for Autonomous Leaf Surface Reconstruction20260
  8. 23UAV3DCrop: Benchmarking 3D Reconstruction in Repeated Multi-Angle UAV Crop Surveys20260
  9. 24Denoising-Aware Temporal Point Cloud Completion for 3D Crop Architecture Recovery and Phenotypic Trait Extraction20260
  10. 25Evaluating Mesh Reconstruction Methods for Crop Phenotyping20260
  11. 26ArborSplat: Online Semantic Gaussian Splatting SLAM for Orchards20260
  12. 27SC-NeRF: NeRF-based Point Cloud Reconstruction using a Stationary Camera for Agricultural Applications20250
  13. 28CountingFruit: Language-Guided 3D Fruit Counting with Semantic Gaussian Splatting20250
  14. 29Point Cloud Segmentation of Agricultural Vehicles using 3D Gaussian Splatting20250
  15. 303D Reconstruction and Information Fusion between Dormant and Canopy Seasons in Commercial Orchards Using Deep Learning and Fast GICP20250
  16. 31AgriChrono: A Multi-modal Dataset Capturing Crop Growth and Lighting Variability with a Field Robot20250
  17. 32DATR: Diffusion-based 3D Apple Tree Reconstruction Framework with Sparse-View20250
  18. 33BOSfM: A View Planning Framework for Optimal 3D Reconstruction of Agricultural Scenes20250
  19. 34Efficient View Planning Guided by Previous-Session Reconstruction for Repeated Plant Monitoring20250
  20. 35Iterative Motion Compensation for Canonical 3D Reconstruction from UAV Plant Images Captured in Windy Conditions20250