Title
Visual Object Tracking For The Extraction Of Multiple Interacting Plant Root Systems
Abstract
We propose a visual object tracking framework for the extraction of multiple interacting plant root systems from three-dimensional X-ray micro computed tomography images of plants grown in soil. Our method is based on a level set framework guided by a greyscale intensity distribution model to identify object boundaries in image cross-sections. Root objects are followed through the data volume, while updating the tracker's appearance models to adapt to changing intensity values. In the presence of multiple root systems, multiple trackers can be used, but need to distinguish target objects from one another in order to correctly associate roots with their originating plants. Since root objects are expected to exhibit similar greyscale intensity distributions, shape information is used to constrain the evolving level set interfaces in order to lock trackers to their correct targets. The proposed method is tested on root systems of wheat plants grown in soil.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-16220-1_7
COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2014 WORKSHOPS, PT IV
Keywords
Field
DocType
Multiple object tracking, Root system recovery, Plant interaction, X-ray micro computed tomography
Computer vision,BitTorrent tracker,Distribution model,Root system,Lock (computer science),Computer science,Level set,Video tracking,Artificial intelligence,Computed tomography,Grayscale
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8928
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Mairhofer140.76
Craig J. Sturrock240.76
Malcolm J. Bennett320.38
Sacha J. Mooney440.76
Tony P. Pridmore514340.24