Low-Cost Stereo Vision for Robust 3D Positioning of Thin Radiata Pine Branches in Autonomous Drone Pruning - 2026-05-06 - Research Publication - The proposed pipeline comprises two stages: branch segmentation and depth estimation. For segmentation, Mask R-CNN variants and the YOLOv8 and YOLOv9 families are compared on a custom dataset of 71 stereo image pairs… - source: arxiv.org
Positioning radiata pine branches requiring pruning by drone stereo vision - 2026-04-12 - Research Publication - This paper presents a stereo-vision-based system mounted on a drone for detecting and localising radiata pine branches to support autonomous pruning. For segmentation, YOLOv8, YOLOv9, and Mask R-CNN variants are compared… - source: arxiv.org
DefOM paper uses ZED Mini RGB-D camera for deformable-object manipulation - 2026-03-27 - Research Publication - DefOM addresses robust deformable-object manipulation through boundary-aware demonstrations and online adaptation. The experimental system uses a Stereolabs ZED Mini RGB-D camera for perception during manipulation tasks. - source: arxiv.org
UE5-Forest paper uses ZED Mini data for synthetic-to-real forest traversal - 2026-03-13 - Research Publication - UE5-Forest studies synthetic-to-real sim-to-real transfer for forest traversal using Unreal Engine 5 environments. The paper references ZED Mini camera data in the real-world component of the traversal setup. - source: arxiv.org
Canterbury tree-branches dataset paper uses ZED Mini for forestry perception data - 2026-02-24 - Research Publication - The paper introduces the Canterbury tree-branches dataset for tree-branch perception research. The data-collection setup uses a Stereolabs ZED Mini camera to capture RGB-D imagery for forestry scenes. - source: arxiv.org
Balanced active perception paper evaluates robot perception with ZED Mini - 2026-02-23 - Research Publication - The paper proposes balanced active perception for finding target objects in clutter using sensor motion planning. The robotic perception setup uses a ZED Mini camera as part of the sensing system. - source: arxiv.org
Generalization Evaluation of Deep Stereo Matching Methods for UAV-Based Forestry Applications - 2025-12-03 - Research Publication - The authors present the first systematic zero-shot evaluation of eight state-of-the-art stereo methods--RAFT-Stereo, IGEV, IGEV++, BridgeDepth, StereoAnywhere, DEFOM (plus baseline methods ACVNet, PSMNet… - source: arxiv.org
Brain over Brawn: Using a Stereo Camera to Detect, Track, and Intercept a Faster UAV by Reconstructing the Intruder's Trajectory - 2021-07-02 - Research Publication - This paper presents their approach to intercepting a faster intruder UAV, inspired by the MBZIRC 2020 Challenge 1. Target tracking is based on image processing by a YOLOv3 Tiny convolutional neural network, combined with… - source: arxiv.org