TomatoPGT: A 3D point cloud dataset of tomato plants for segmentation and plant-trait extraction

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Authors: Prasad Nethala, Dugan Um, Samantha McCoy, Seth Gibson, Mahendra Bhandari, Kiju Lee
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Abstract

Three-dimensional (3D) point-cloud phenotyping enables non-destructive and repeatable characterization of plant architecture, supporting the measurement of traits such as internode length, branching topology, and organ orientation. This article presents TomatoPGT (Tomato Plant Graph Twin) , a 3D tomato dataset designed for research on semantic/instance segmentation, graph-based structural representation, and graph-derived phenotypic trait extraction. The dataset contains 42 scans from three greenhouse-grown tomato plants acquired across early to mid-vegetative development using a rotational multi-view imaging system. Each scan consists of 60–70 overlapping RGB images captured under uniform illumination and reconstructed into a metrically scaled dense colored point cloud using Structure-from-Motion and multi-view stereo. TomatoPGT provides: (i) multi-view RGB images, (ii) dense colored point clouds, (iii) manually curated semantic and instance annotations at organ level, (iv) graph representations encoding plant topology and geometry, and (v) tabulated phenotypic traits computed deterministically from the graphs (internode length, insertion angles, and phyllotactic angles). TomatoPGT supports reproducible development and evaluation of 3D phenotyping pipelines, including learning-based segmentation and graph-based modeling of plant architecture.

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Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications Smart Agriculture and AI Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control

Publication details

Journal / source
Data in Brief
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
66
Pages
112642–112642
Publication date
7 March 2026
Language
EN