Pheno4D
Notes on the Dataset
- Only every second scan has instance labels. For the maize plants, also semantic labels are available.
Detailed Information
| General Information | |
| Name | Pheno4D |
| Release Year | 2021 |
| Terms of Use | Unclear |
| Access Requirements | None |
| Dataset Size | 4.1 GB |
| Documentation | In-depth documentation of acquisition and characteristics of the dataset, e.g., via an explicit dataset paper or a comprehensive multi-page metadata document |
| Code | Yes |
| Applications | Vegetation mapping and monitoring | Multi-temporal registration |
| Detailed Applications | Plant growth monitoring (phenotypic trait tracking) | spatio-temporal registration |
| Acquisition | |
| Number of Scenes | 14 |
| Number of Epochs per Scene (minimum) | 11 |
| Number of Epochs per Scene (median) | 16 |
| Number of Epochs per Scene (maximum) | 20 |
| General Scene Type | Greenhouse |
| Specific Scene Type | Plant in soil |
| Location | Unclear |
| Acquisition Type | Structured light scan |
| Acquisition Device | Perceptron ScanWorks V5 |
| Acquisition Platform | ROMER Infinite 2.0 measuring arm |
| Scan Interval | Hours |
| Acquisition Months | |
| Representation | |
| Data Representation | Unstructured, globally aligned (e.g., point cloud or ray cloud) |
| Specific Data Representation | Point cloud |
| File Format/Encoding | Textfile, usually delimiter separated values |
| Raw Data | - |
| Additional Data | - |
| Coordinate System | mm |
| Quality and Usability | |
| Registration | Between finely and coarsely registered. The reviewers disagreed on this |
| Number of Partial Epochs | - |
| Unusable Data Reason | - |
| Splits | No |
| Per-Point Attributes | |
| Intensity/Reflectivity | No |
| Color | No |
| Semantic Labels | 3 | Only some point clouds/parts have labels |
| Instance Labels | Yes | Only some point clouds/parts have labels |
| Change Labels | - |
| Statistics | |
| Number of Points per Epoch (minimum) | 337K |
| Number of Points per Epoch (median) | 2M |
| Number of Points per Epoch (maximum) | 5M |
| Avg. Point Spacing (minimum) | 45µm |
| Avg. Point Spacing (median) | 67µm |
| Avg. Point Spacing (maximum) | 93µm |
| Avg. Change Points per Epoch | - |
Paper Reference 1
@article{schunck2021pheno4d,
title = {Pheno4D: A spatio-temporal dataset of maize and tomato plant point clouds for phenotyping and advanced plant analysis},
author = {Schunck, David and Magistri, Federico and Rosu, Radu Alexandru and Cornelißen, André and Chebrolu, Nived and Paulus, Stefan and Léon, Jens and Behnke, Sven and Stachniss, Cyrill and Kuhlmann, Heiner and others},
journal = {Plos one},
volume = {16},
number = {8},
pages = {e0256340},
year = {2021},
publisher = {Public Library of Science San Francisco, CA USA},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0256340},
}