🌻 FloPE: Flower Pose Estimation for Precision Pollination

🛠️ Installation Guide

📦 Prerequisites

Make sure you have Miniconda or Anaconda installed on your system.

You can check by running:

conda --version

🚀 Environment Setup

git clone https://github.com/wvu-irl/flope.git
cd flope
conda env create -f environment.yml
echo "export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd):\$PYTHONPATH" >> ~/.bashrc # use zshrc if you are using zsh terminal
source ~/.bashrc
conda activate sunflower

🔧 FloPE Pose Annotator Tool

Make sure to download plant_3dgs_model_cropped.ply from here, and put it inside /path/to/flope/pose_annotator/data directory.

cd pose_annotator
python annotator.py

BibTex

@article{shrestha2025flope,
  title={FloPE: Flower Pose Estimation for Precision Pollination},
  author={Shrestha, Rashik and Rijal, Madhav and Smith, Trevor and Gu, Yu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11692},
  year={2025}
}