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Janou Milligan

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Vision Transformers Enable Advanced Plant Phenotyping in Controlled Environments

Janou Milligan, Anand Seethepalli, Aristeidis Tsaris, Xiao Wang, Larry M. York, John H. Lagergren

This paper compares segmentation methods for plant phenotyping, finding that pretrained vision transformers outperform color thresholding and supervised U-Nets in generalization across species and conditions.

bioRxiv · Sep 10, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology