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基于FS-SGC的作物细长器官生长角度测量方法

A crop slender-organ growth angle measurement method based on FS-SGC

  • 摘要: 针对作物细长器官生长角度测量主观性强、原位无损获取困难及复杂场景下目标分割与角度解析鲁棒性不足等问题,该研究提出一种基于FS-SGC(fast segment anything model with skeleton-geometric constraints)的生长角度测量方法。该方法主要包括级联感知实例分割、全局拓扑引导的几何特征提取和基于最小二乘边更新的角度解析3个模块。首先,借助 FastSAM (fast segment anything model)的零样本分割能力并结合多尺度 ROI(region of interest)级联策略,获得单株目标的高质量二值掩膜,为后续几何分析提供稳定输入;其次,在掩膜基础上通过拓扑约束骨架提取构建器官全局几何包络,并结合 Hessian 矩阵提取局部关键几何特征点,以同时表征细长器官的主生长方向和局部结构细节;最后,在全局几何包络约束下对局部特征点进行分类与最小二乘拟合,采用边更新策略完成方向向量估计和角度求解,从而实现作物细长器官生长角度的自动测量。结果表明,在自建油菜茎秆数据集上,该方法的决定系数和均方根误差分别为0.9282和2.078°;在公开小麦旗叶数据集上,决定系数达到0.9932。对比结果表明,FS-SGC在平均绝对误差、均方根误差、决定系数、皮尔逊相关系数及特定农学容差内的角度达标率等指标上均表现较优。进一步地,针对多视角采集条件下的投影畸变问题,设计了标定板辅助的几何校正预处理方法,可满足大田环境下细粒度角度测量需求。测试结果表明,FS-SGC 可用于具有明显主轴方向和细长形态特征的作物器官角度测量,为作物细长器官表型参数的自动获取提供参考。

     

    Abstract: To improve the objectivity, in situ non-destructive applicability, and field robustness of angle phenotyping for crop slender organs, a growth angle measurement method based on fast segment anything model with skeleton-geometric constraints (FS-SGC) was developed. Angle measurement of stems and other slender crop organs in field environments is often constrained by three practical problems: strong dependence on manual judgment, difficulty in obtaining non-destructive measurements under natural conditions, and unstable performance caused by cluttered backgrounds, irregular organ boundaries, local curvature, and multi-view projection distortion. To address these limitations, a task-oriented workflow was constructed by integrating zero-shot instance segmentation, global-topology-guided geometric feature extraction, and vector-based angle estimation. First, fast segment anything model (FastSAM) was adopted as the front-end segmentation model to isolate target organs from complex scenes without task-specific dense annotation training. A multi-scale region-of-interest cascade strategy was then introduced to progressively refine local target regions, suppress redundant background interference, and generate high-quality binary masks for individual target organs. Second, a topology-constrained skeleton extraction procedure was designed to preserve continuity and endpoint integrity during thinning, and the extracted skeleton was further used to construct a global geometric envelope representing the dominant structural extent and directional trend of the target organ. To complement the global description, local ridge-like geometric features were extracted in multi-scale space by using a Hessian-matrix-based strategy, so that subtle structural information along slender organs could be retained and local directional deviations could be corrected. Third, key feature points were vectorized by least-squares edge updating, and organ growth angle was estimated from the fitted directional structure under the guidance of the global geometric envelope. For field deployment, a calibration-board-assisted geometric correction procedure was further incorporated to reduce projection distortion caused by non-orthogonal image acquisition and to improve geometric fidelity under multi-view imaging conditions.The proposed method was evaluated on a self-constructed rapeseed stem dataset containing 330 images collected from different growth stages and structural forms, and was further validated on a public wheat flag leaf dataset to examine cross-organ generalization performance. On the rapeseed stem dataset, the proposed method achieved a coefficient of determination (R2) of 0.9282 and a root mean square error (RMSE) of 2.078°, indicating strong agreement with manual measurements. Comparative experiments were conducted against representative geometry-based, edge-based, contour-based, and segmentation-assisted methods. Results showed that the proposed method outperformed the reference methods in mean absolute error (MAE), RMSE, R2, Pearson correlation coefficient (r), and agronomic tolerance compliance rate (ATCR), while maintaining an acceptable complete-pipeline processing time of 0.3660 s per sample. In particular, the proposed workflow was more effective for organs with slender morphology, irregular boundaries, local bending, or background interference, where conventional methods were more likely to produce biased direction estimation. Ablation experiments further demonstrated that each core module contributed positively to the final performance. High-quality target isolation was essential for reliable angle estimation; topology-constrained skeleton extraction improved structural continuity and directional stability; and local Hessian-based geometric features effectively compensated for directional deviations that could not be fully resolved by coarse global envelopes alone. On the wheat flag leaf dataset, the method achieved an R2 of 0.9932, demonstrating good adaptability across different crops, organs, and image characteristics. In addition, the calibration-board-assisted geometric correction significantly improved field measurement reliability under non-orthogonal imaging, reducing the average angular error caused by perspective distortion to within 1.8°. Overall, the proposed FS-SGC method provides an effective solution for automatic angle measurement of crop slender organs by combining zero-shot segmentation, topology-preserving skeleton analysis, local geometric enhancement, and least-squares vector fitting within a unified workflow. The method achieved high accuracy on both self-constructed and public datasets, showed robust adaptability to slender and irregular plant structures, and maintained practical applicability under field imaging conditions after geometric correction. It can provide technical support for fine-scale characterization of crop slender-organ architecture, lodging-related phenotyping, and non-destructive monitoring in smart agriculture, and also offers a feasible technical pathway for high-throughput extraction of structural traits in field-based crop phenomics.

     

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