Comparison of wood / leaves segmentation methods using machine learning

The action of the wind in the branches of cherry trees simulated and modeled with The grove and rendered in Blender

A part of my PhD works is now available in the last release of the open source platform Computree.

This wiki gives an overview of the computational steps implemented.

Departing from traditional tree models made of cylinders (in green), sharper models (in blue) can be computed. Expressed as a continuous surface, they describe the shape better and allow to assess precisely the tree properties.

The 3D samples and the surface model of a tropical tree can be visualize here

Sequence of processing steps: modeling of the terrain surface, detection of the tree stem, then estimation of the tree model.

3D model of a Mangrove tree (Avicennia germinans Copyright A. Olagoke and C. Proisy, 2014, IRD UMR AMAP)

Mesh model of an evergreen sub tropical tree (Erytrophleum fordii) based on SimpleTree.

3D Points clouds from Mahabalipuram (India) created with VisualSFM