Journal
ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS
Volume 32, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/2508363.2508368
Keywords
growth analysis; 4D point cloud; event detection
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Funding
- NSFC [61202221, 61232011, 61161160567]
- National 863 Program [2013AA01A604]
- Guangdong Science and Technology Program [2011B050200007]
- Shenzhen Innovation Program [CXB201104220029A, ZD201111080115A, KC2012JSJS0019A, KQCX20120807104901791, JCYJ20120617114842361]
- Israeli science foundation
- Marie Curie CIG
- ERC
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Studying growth and development of plants is of central importance in botany. Current quantitative are either limited to tedious and sparse manual measurements, or coarse image-based 2D measurements. Availability of cheap and portable 3D acquisition devices has the potential to automate this process and easily provide scientists with volumes of accurate data, at a scale much beyond the realms of existing methods. However, during their development, plants grow new parts (e.g., vegetative buds) and bifurcate to different components - violating the central incompressibility assumption made by existing acquisition algorithms, which makes these algorithms unsuited for analyzing growth. We introduce a framework to study plant growth, particularly focusing on accurate localization and tracking topological events like budding and bifurcation. This is achieved by a novel forward-backward analysis, wherein we track robustly detected plant components back in time to ensure correct spatio-temporal event detection using a locally adapting threshold. We evaluate our approach on several groups of time lapse scans, often ranging from days to weeks, on a diverse set of plant species and use the results to animate static virtual plants or directly attach them to physical simulators.
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