Visualization of plant growth

Author

Loomis, Jeremy J. ; Liu, Xiuwen ; Ding, Zhaohua ; FujiMura, Kikuo ; Evans, Michael L. ; Ishikawa, Hideo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

1997

Firstpage

475

Lastpage

478

Abstract

The measurement, analysis and visualization of plant growth is of primary interest to plant biologists. We are developing software tools to support such investigations. There are two parts in this investigation, namely growth visualization of (i) a plant root and (ii) a plant stem. For both domains, the input data is a stream of images taken by cameras. The tools being developed make it possible to measure various time-varying quantities, such as differential growth. For both domains, the plant is modeled by using flexible templates to represent non-rigid motions.

Keywords

biology computing; biomedical imaging; biomedical measurement; botany; data visualisation; image sequences; differential growth measurement; flexible templates; image sequence analysis; image stream; input data stream; modelling; nonrigid motions; plant biology; plant growth visualization; plant root; plant stem; shape representation; time-varying quantity measurement; Cameras; Computational biology; Data visualization; Gravity; Humans; Image reconstruction; Length measurement; Motion analysis; Plants (biology); Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visualization '97., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8262-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VISUAL.1997.663925

Filename

663925