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Site-Disjoint Study Finds No Consistent NIR Advantage for Agricultural Traversability
A new arXiv paper compares near-infrared and standard color imaging for daytime farm-machinery traversability using a site-disjoint evaluation that removes spatial data leakage. The authors find NIR does not consistently beat color once frames from the same locations are kept out of both training and test splits, and note that earlier benchmarks reporting an NIR edge used sequence-level splits. The work suggests sensor choices for agricultural perception should be revisited on properly separated data.