RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Temporal forecasting of plant height and canopy diameter from RGB images using a CNN-based regression model for ornamental pepper plants (Capsicum spp.) growing under high-temperature stress A1 Ruiz González, Rubén A1 Nascimento, Antonia Maiara Marques do A1 Santos, Marcos Bruno da Costa A1 Porto, Rutten Kécio Soares de Brito A1 Medeiros, Artur Mendes A1 Santos, Fábio Sandro dos A1 Martínez-Martínez, Víctor A1 Barroso, Priscila Alves K1 Image-based temporal prediction K1 Morphological parameters K1 Ornamental potential K1 Precision agriculture K1 Solanaceae K1 Thermal stress K1 Redes neuronales artificiales K1 Neural networks (Computer science) K1 Agricultura K1 Agriculture AB Being capable of accurately predicting morphological parameters of the plant weeks before achieving fruit maturation is of great importance in the production and selection of suitable ornamental pepper plants. The objective of this article is evaluating the feasibility and assessing the performance of CNN-based models using RGB images as input to forecast two morphological parameters: plant height and canopy diameter. To this end, four CNN-based models are proposed to predict these morphological parameters in four different scenarios: first, using as input a single image of the plant; second, using as input several images from different viewpoints of the plant acquired on the same date; third, using as input two images from two consecutive weeks; and fourth, using as input a set of images consisting of one image from each week up to the current date. The results show that it is possible to accurately predict both plant height and canopy diameter. The RMSE for a forecast performed 6 weeks in advance to the actual measurements was below 4.5 cm and 4.2 cm, respectively. When information from previous weeks is added to the model, better results can be achieved and as the prediction date gets closer to the assessment date the accuracy improves as well. PB Springer SN 0941-0643 YR 2024 FD 2024 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9759 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9759 LA eng NO Financiación en Acceso Abierto gracias al convenio CRUE-CSIC con Springer Nature. Esta investigación fue financiada por el CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), subvención número 408444/2021–5. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos RD 06-ene-2025