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Pepper-4D: Spatiotemporal 3D Pepper Crop Dataset for Phenotyping

Plants · 13 Feb 2026 · 10.3390/plants15040599

Abstract

Pepper (Capsicum annuum) is a globally significant horticultural crop cultivated for its culinary, medicinal, and economic value. Traditional approaches for boosting the agricultural production of pepper, notably, expanding farmland, have become increasingly unsustainable. Recent advancements in artificial intelligence and 3D computer vision have started to transform crop cultivation and phenotyping, which has shed new light on increasing production by advanced breeding. However, currently, the field still lacks 3D pepper data that contains enough detail for organ-level analysis. Therefore, we propose Pepper-4D, a new, high-precision 4D point cloud dataset that records both the spatial structure and temporal development of pepper plants across various continuous growth stages. Our dataset is divided into three subsets, including a total of 916 individual point clouds from 29 indoor-cultivated pepper plant samples. Our dataset provides manual annotations at both the plant-level and organ-level, supporting phenotyping tasks such as pepper growth status classification, organ semantic segmentation, organ instance segmentation, organ growth tracking, new organ detection, and even the generation of synthetic 3D pepper plants.

Plant phenotyping relevance

植物の器官レベル表現型解析を支援する4D点群データセットを構築し、成長状態分類・器官分割・追跡などを可能にする研究であり、フェノタイピング用データ基盤が中心です。

abstractPepper-4D, a new, high-precision 4D point cloud dataset that records both the spatial structure and temporal development of pepper plants across various continuous growth stages.
abstractOur dataset provides manual annotations at both the plant-level and organ-level, supporting phenotyping tasks such as pepper growth status classification, organ semantic segmentation, organ instance segmentation, organ growth tracking, new organ detection, and even the generation of synthetic 3D pepper plants.

Code and data availability

The authors publicly release the Pepper-4D spatiotemporal 3D pepper point cloud dataset (with plant- and organ-level annotations) and associated code via a GitHub repository stated in the Data Availability Statement. CloudCompare is a generic third-party tool, not a paper-specific asset.

Datasetpublic

.J.; writing—original draft preparation, F.A.; writing—review and editing, D.L.; visualization, F.A. and D.L.; supervision, D.L.; project administration, H.Y.; funding acquisition, D.L. and H.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. Data Availability Statement Data and code can be found at https://github.com/foysalahmed10/Pepper-4D (accessed on 9 February 2026). Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Funding Statement This work was supported in part by the Shanghai Sailing Program under Grant 24YF2701200, in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2232025D-50, and in part by Donghua Un

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Codepublic

ang Q., Zeng Y., Hou J., Zhe X. WarpingGAN: Warping multiple uniform priors for adversarial 3D point cloud generation; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; New Orleans, LA, USA. 18–24 June 2022; pp. 6397–6405. Associated Data Data Availability Statement Data and code can be found at https://github.com/foysalahmed10/Pepper-4D (accessed on 9 February 2026).

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