Recovering and analyzing 3D models of branched structures using computer vision: a review

  • Authors:
  • Davide Floriello;Tom Botterill;Richard Green

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand;University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

With the recent developments of computer vision and automated systems in medical imaging or agriculture, there has been, in the last years, the necessity to adopt methods able to analyze and reconstruct three dimensional network structures, such as blood vessels, plant architecture or root structures, given one or more two dimensional images of the observed scene. This paper reviews recent work on this problem. Each of the examples cited designs a new method, each of which is different from previous methods already proposed. In this paper we review some of the developed methods and, due to the evident heterogenity of the methods, we classify them according to whether they apply a model to two dimensional details in images, or methods which recover a three dimensional representation (point cloud, or mesh), and then fit a network structure model to this representation.