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Author Kang, Sing Bing.

Title Image-based modeling of plants and trees / Sing Bing Kang and Long Quan
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (x, 73 pages) : illustrations
Series Synthesis lectures on computer vision ; #1
Synthesis lectures on computer vision ; #1.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of plant and tree modeling techniques -- Rule-based methods -- Sketch-based methods -- Image-based methods -- Modeling leaves, flowers, and bark -- Modeling environmental effects -- Modeling other flora -- Appendix: Brief description of L-system -- 3. Image-based technique for modeling plants -- Overview of plant modeling system -- Preliminary processes -- Graph-based leaf extraction -- Graph partition -- User interface -- Graph update -- Boundary segmentation -- Model-based leaf reconstruction -- Extraction of a generic leaf model -- Leaf reconstruction -- Branch extraction and reconstruction -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- 4. Image-based technique for modeling trees -- Overview of the system -- Image capture and 3D point recovery -- Branch recovery -- Reconstruction of visible branches -- Reconstruction of occluded branches -- Populating the tree with leaves -- Image segmentation and clustering -- Adding leaves to branches -- Results -- Discussion -- Summary -- 5. Single image tree modeling -- Overview of system -- Image plane sketching -- Tree growing -- Growth engine -- Data-driven attractors -- Completing the tree -- Results -- Summary -- 6. Summary and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Authors' biographies
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-72)
Notes English
Subject Plants -- Computer simulation
Trees -- Computer simulation
Computer drawing.
Image processing -- Digital techniques.
digital imaging.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
Computer drawing
Image processing -- Digital techniques
Form Electronic book
Author Quan, Long.
ISBN 9781608452453
160845245X
9783031018084
3031018087