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 Modelling wine grapevines for autonomous robotic cane pruning.
Henry Williams et al.

Publisher & free pdf (open access): http://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2023.09.006

tl;dr: Systems paper concerning the 3D modeling of grape vines, for cane pruning. Uses learned methods for panoptic segmentation and stereo inference. (Detectron 2 for panoptic segmentation, HSMnet for stereo inference.) Uses an over-the-row unit with two UR5 arms to acquire camera data. 

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