Title
Flower modeling via X-ray computed tomography
Abstract
This paper presents a novel three dimensional (3D) flower modeling technique that utilizes an X-ray computed tomography (CT) system and real-world flowers. Although a CT system provides volume data that captures the internal structures of flowers, it is difficult to accurately segment them into regions of particular organs and model them as smooth surfaces because a flower consists of thin organs that contact one another. We thus introduce a semi-automatic modeling technique that is based on a new active contour model with energy functionals designed for flower CT. Our key idea is to approximate flower components by two important primitives, a shaft and a sheet. Based on our active contour model, we also provide novel user interfaces and a numerical scheme to fit these primitives so as to reconstruct realistic thin flower organs efficiently. To demonstrate the feasibility of our technique, we provide various flower models reconstructed from CT volumes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2601097.2601124
ACM Trans. Graph.
Keywords
Field
DocType
interaction techniques,active contours,edge and feature detection,x-ray ct,flower modeling,computational geometry and object modeling
Computer vision,X-ray,Artificial intelligence,Computed tomography,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
33
4
0730-0301
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.68
36
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Ijiri124218.34
Shin Yoshizawa231020.27
Hideo Yokota37816.87
Takeo Igarashi43113206.25