Can Synthetic Data Overcome the Generalization Limits of AI-Based Flower and Pod Detection Across Cowpea Breeding Genotypes and Environments?

arXiv:2607.28796v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-throughput phenotyping requires AI-enabled computer vision models that generalize across genotypes, locations, and growing seasons, yet such models often lose accuracy under new conditions. Annotating real imagery for every genotype-by-environment (G x E) combination a breeding program encounters is prohibitively expensive. We quantify how G x E shifts affect AI-based detection of cowpea flowers and pods across two California locations and two...