Image-based modeling of plants and trees
By: Sing Bing Kang, Long Quan
Contributors: Quan, Long
Series: Synthesis lectures on computer vision -- # 1
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA)
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9781608452453; 9781608452446
Subjects: Plants; Botany; Computer drawing; Computer programs; Trees; Botanical illustration; Computer simulation; Special effects; Digital techniques; Image processing
Other titles: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Description: Plants and trees are among the most complex natural objects. Much work has been done attempting to model them, with varying degrees of success. In this book, we review the various approaches in computer graphics, which we categorize as rule-based, image-based, and sketch-based methods. We describe our approaches for modeling plants and trees using images. Image-based approaches have the distinct advantage that the resulting model inherits the realistic shape and complexity of a real plant or tree. We use different techniques for modeling plants (with relatively large leaves) and trees (with relatively small leaves). With plants, we model each leaf from images, while for trees, the leaves are only approximated due to their small size and large number. Both techniques start with the same initial step of structure from motion on multiple images of the plant or tree that is to be modeled.
Notes: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.

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Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Review of plant and tree modeling techniques; title: Rule-based methods; title: Sketch-based methods; title: Image-based methods; title: Modeling leaves, flowers, and bark; title: Modeling environmental effects; title: Modeling other flora; title: Appendix: Brief description of L-system; title: 3. Image-based technique for modeling plants; title: Overview of plant modeling system; title: Preliminary processes; title: Graph-based leaf extraction; title: Graph partition; title: User interface; title: Graph update; title: Boundary segmentation; title: Model-based leaf reconstruction; title: Extraction of a generic leaf model; title: Leaf reconstruction; title: Branch extraction and reconstruction; title: Results; title: Discussion; title: Summary; title: 4. Image-based technique for modeling trees; title: Overview of the system; title: Image capture and 3D point recovery; title: Branch recovery; title: Reconstruction of visible branches; title: Reconstruction of occluded branches; title: Populating the tree with leaves; title: Image segmentation and clustering; title: Adding leaves to branches; title: Results; title: Discussion; title: Summary; title: 5. Single image tree modeling; title: Overview of system; title: Image plane sketching; title: Tree growing; title: Growth engine; title: Data-driven attractors; title: Completing the tree; title: Results; title: Summary; title: 6. Summary and concluding remarks; title: Acknowledgments; title: Bibliography; title: Authors' biographies.