Statistical shape representations for temporal registration of plant components in 3D

Karoline Heiwolt,Cengiz Öztireli,Grzegorz Cielniak,Karoline Heiwolt,Cengiz Öztireli,Grzegorz Cielniak

Plants are dynamic organisms and understanding temporal variations in vegetation is an essential problem for robots in the wild. However, associating repeated 3D scans of plants across time is challenging. A key step in this process is re-identifying and tracking the same individual plant components over time. Previously, this has been achieved by comparing their global spatial or topological loca...