Full 3D Plant Reconstruction via Intrusive Acquisition

Digitally capturing vegetation using off‐the‐shelf scanners is a challenging problem. Plants typically exhibit large self‐occlusions and thin structures which cannot be properly scanned. Furthermore, plants are essentially dynamic, deforming over the time, which yield additional difficulties in the...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 272 - 284
Main Authors: Yin, Kangxue, Huang, Hui, Long, Pinxin, Gaissinski, Alexei, Gong, Minglun, Sharf, Andrei
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016
Subjects:
Acquisitions
Analysis
Foliage
geometric modelling
Image processing systems
Marketing
object scanning/acquisition
Plants (organisms)
Reconstruction
Scanners
Scanning
Studies
surface reconstruction ACM CCS: I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational Geometry and Object Modeling
Three dimensional
Vegetation mapping
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Digitally capturing vegetation using off‐the‐shelf scanners is a challenging problem. Plants typically exhibit large self‐occlusions and thin structures which cannot be properly scanned. Furthermore, plants are essentially dynamic, deforming over the time, which yield additional difficulties in the scanning process. In this paper, we present a novel technique for acquiring and modelling of plants and foliage. At the core of our method is an intrusive acquisition approach, which disassembles the plant into disjoint parts that can be accurately scanned and reconstructed offline. We use the reconstructed part meshes as 3D proxies for the reconstruction of the complete plant and devise a global‐to‐local non‐rigid registration technique that preserves specific plant characteristics. Our method is tested on plants of various styles, appearances and characteristics. Results show successful reconstructions with high accuracy with respect to the acquired data. Digitally capturing vegetation using off‐the‐shelf scanners is a challenging problem. Plants typically exhibit large self‐occlusions and thin structures which cannot be properly scanned. Furthermore, plants are essentially dynamic, deforming over the time, which yield additional difficulties in the scanning process. In this paper, we present a novel technique for acquiring and modelling of plants and foliage. At the core of our method is an intrusive acquisition approach, which disassembles the plant into disjoint parts that can be accurately scanned and reconstructed offline.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/cgf.12724