Abstract:Accurate extraction of branch angles from three-dimensional point clouds is important for quantifying tea seedling canopy structure and analyzing pest- and disease-prone microenvironments.To address the problems of slender branches, severe leaf occlusion, and residual petioles interfering with branch node detection, an automatic branch angle extraction method integrating dual-view three-dimensional reconstruction, PointNet++ segmentation, point cloud purification and enhancement, and Tea-SCAG was proposed.Seventy one-year-old "Longjing 43" tea seedlings were used.Surrounding videos were collected from horizontal and 45° top-oblique views using a turntable platform, and multi-view image sequences were obtained by frame extraction.Tea seedlings were reconstructed using 2D Gaussian splatting.PointNet++ was jointly trained on the LJ-43 and PLANesT-3D datasets to separate stems from leaves.Residual petioles and peripheral noise were removed by statistical outlier filtering, while local spherical point supplementation was used to restore stem continuity and local thickness.Tea-SCAG was then developed by introducing main-stem proximity constraint, upper dual-branch validation, lower main-stem support judgment, adjacent node merging, and overlapping candidate merging.The overall accuracy and mean intersection over union of stem-leaf segmentation reached 89.3% and 83.7%, respectively.The recall, precision, and F-score of branch node detection were 82.3%, 84.8%, and 83.4%, respectively, and the correlation coefficient between predicted and manually measured branch angles was 0.910.The proposed method can provide reliable three-dimensional structural traits for tea seedling phenotyping, precision pruning, identification of pest- and disease-prone canopy structures, and early screening of potentially resistant seedlings.