Yue (Linn) Chong

Ph.D. Student
Contact:
Email: linn.chong@nulluni-bonn.de
Tel: +49 – 228 – 73 – 29 01
Office: Nussallee 15, 1. OG, room 1.003
Address:
University of Bonn
Photogrammetry, IGG
Nussallee 15
53115 Bonn

Profiles: Google Scholar | Github

Short CV

Yue (Linn) Chong joined the team as a Ph.D. student in November 2021. Prior to that, she worked as a Research Engineer at the National University of Singapore (NUS) from 2017 to 2021. She graduated with a Master in Engineering and a Bachelor of Engineering from NUS in 2020 and 2017 respectively.

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Agricultural Robotics

Projects

  • PhenoRob – Robotics and Phenotyping for Sustainable Crop Production (DFG Cluster of Excellence)

Publications

2025

  • Y. L. Chong, P. Nachtweide, J. Bauer, A. Hamm, J. Kierdorf, L. Drees, C. Stachniss, J. Behley, T. F. Doering, R. Roscher, S. J. Seidel, and A. V. Mayr, “A Computer Vision Dataset for Pollinator Detection under Real Field Conditions,” biorXiv Preprint, vol. biorXiv:2025.10.27.682286, 2025. doi:https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.27.682286
    [BibTeX] [PDF] 
    @article{chong2025biorxiv,
author = {Y.L. Chong and P. Nachtweide and J. Bauer and A. Hamm and J. Kierdorf and L. Drees and C. Stachniss and J. Behley and T.F. Doering and R. Roscher and S.J. Seidel and A.V. Mayr},
title = {{A Computer Vision Dataset for Pollinator Detection under Real Field Conditions}},
journal = biorxiv,
year = 2025,
volume = {biorXiv:2025.10.27.682286},
url = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2025/10/28/2025.10.27.682286.full.pdf},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.27.682286},
}

  • Y. L. Chong, L. Nunes, F. Magistri, X. Zhong, J. Behley, and C. Stachniss, “Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation for Robots in Agriculture,” in Proc. of the IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2025.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] [Code] 
    @inproceedings{chong2025iros,
author = {Y.L. Chong and L. Nunes and F. Magistri and X. Zhong and J. Behley and C. Stachniss},
title = {{Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation for Robots in Agriculture}},
booktitle = iros,
year = 2025,
codeurl = {https://github.com/PRBonn/WeedsAreWeird},
videurl = {https://youtu.be/1ORs07F0RsE}
}

2024

  • J. Weyler, F. Magistri, E. Marks, Y. L. Chong, M. Sodano, G. Roggiolani, N. Chebrolu, C. Stachniss, and J. Behley, “PhenoBench: A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Semantic Image Interpretation in the Agricultural Domain,” IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), vol. 46, iss. 12, p. 9583–9594, 2024. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3419548
    [BibTeX] [PDF] [Code] 
    @article{weyler2024tpami,
author = {J. Weyler and F. Magistri and E. Marks and Y.L. Chong and M. Sodano and G. Roggiolani and N. Chebrolu and C. Stachniss and J. Behley},
title = {{PhenoBench: A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Semantic Image Interpretation in the Agricultural Domain}},
journal = tpami,
year = {2024},
volume = {46},
number = {12},
pages = {9583--9594},
doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3419548},
codeurl = {https://github.com/PRBonn/phenobench}
}

2023

  • Y. L. Chong, J. Weyler, P. Lottes, J. Behley, and C. Stachniss, “Unsupervised Generation of Labeled Training Images for Crop-Weed Segmentation in New Fields and on Different Robotic Platforms,” IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), vol. 8, iss. 8, p. 5259–5266, 2023. doi:10.1109/LRA.2023.3293356
    [BibTeX] [PDF] [Code] [Video] 
    @article{chong2023ral,
author = {Y.L. Chong and J. Weyler and P. Lottes and J. Behley and C. Stachniss},
title = {{Unsupervised Generation of Labeled Training Images for Crop-Weed Segmentation in New Fields and on Different Robotic Platforms}},
journal = ral,
volume = {8},
number = {8},
pages = {5259--5266},
year = 2023,
issn = {2377-3766},
doi = {10.1109/LRA.2023.3293356},
videourl = {https://youtu.be/SpvrR9sgf2k},
codeurl = {https://github.com/PRBonn/StyleGenForLabels}
}

  • J. Weyler, F. Magistri, E. Marks, Y. L. Chong, M. Sodano, G. Roggiolani, N. Chebrolu, C. Stachniss, and J. Behley, “PhenoBench –- A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Semantic Image Interpretation in the Agricultural Domain,” arXiv preprint, vol. arXiv:2306.04557, 2023.
    [BibTeX] [PDF] [Code] 
    @article{weyler2023arxiv,
author = {Jan Weyler and Federico Magistri and Elias Marks and Yue Linn Chong and Matteo Sodano
and Gianmarco Roggiolani and Nived Chebrolu and Cyrill Stachniss and Jens Behley},
title = {{PhenoBench --- A Large Dataset and Benchmarks for Semantic Image Interpretation
in the Agricultural Domain}},
journal = {arXiv preprint},
volume = {arXiv:2306.04557},
year = {2023},
codeurl = {https://github.com/PRBonn/phenobench}
}