Aerial imagery-based tobacco plant counting framework for efficient crop emergence estimation

Ramsha Shahid, Waqar S. Qureshi, Umar Shahbaz Khan, Arslan Munir, Ayesha Zeb, Syed Imran Moazzam

Abstract: Highlights•Onboard plant counting framework for efficient early crop emergence estimation.•Direct estimation of plant counts from aerial images, eliminating the need for costly orthomosaic formation.•Evaluation of three methods based on time complexity and accuracy, with average F1 scores ranging from 0.947 to 0.967.