# Plant and agricultural 3D reconstruction

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## 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).
- 8 of its 38 mapped papers (21%) cite “FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Framework” (2024, arXiv 2408.06190).

## Most cited here

- [High-fidelity 3D Reconstruction of Plants using Neural Radiance Field](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.04154/) (2023), cited by 8 papers here
- [FruitNeRF: A Unified Neural Radiance Field based Fruit Counting Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.06190/) (2024), cited by 8 papers here
- [PAg-NeRF: Towards fast and efficient end-to-end panoptic 3D representations for agricultural robotics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.05339/) (2023), cited by 6 papers here
- [Wheat3DGS: In-field 3D Reconstruction, Instance Segmentation and Phenotyping of Wheat Heads with Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.06978/) (2025), cited by 5 papers here
- [A Survey on 3D Reconstruction Techniques in Plant Phenotyping: From Classical Methods to Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and Beyond](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.00737/) (2025), cited by 5 papers here
- [Evaluating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) for 3D Plant Geometry Reconstruction in Field Conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.10344/) (2024), cited by 4 papers here
- [AgriNeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Agriculture in Challenging Lighting Conditions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.15487/) (2024), cited by 3 papers here
- [Object-Centric 3D Gaussian Splatting for Strawberry Plant Reconstruction and Phenotyping](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.02207/) (2025), cited by 2 papers here
- [3D Reconstruction in Noisy Agricultural Environments: A Bayesian Optimization Perspective for View Planning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.00145/) (2023), cited by 1 papers here
- [SSL-NBV: A Self-Supervised-Learning-Based Next-Best-View algorithm for Efficient 3D Plant Reconstruction by a Robot](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.14790/) (2024), cited by 1 papers here