Watching plants growA position paper on computer vision and Arabidopsis thaliana

TY - JOUR

T1 - Watching plants grow

T2 - A position paper on computer vision and Arabidopsis thaliana

AU - Bell, Jonathan

AU - Dee, Hannah

N1 - This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Institution of Engineering and Technology via http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/iet-cvi.2016.0127

PY - 2017/3/13

Y1 - 2017/3/13

N2 - The authors present a comprehensive overview of image processing and analysis work done to support research into the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Beside the plant's importance in biological research, using image analysis to obtain experimental measurements of it is an interesting vision problem in its own right, involving the segmentation and analysis of sequences of images of objects whose shape varies between individual specimens and also changes over time. While useful measurements can be obtained by segmenting a whole plant from the background, they suggest that the increased range and precision of measurements made available by leaf-level segmentation makes this a problem well worth solving. A variety of approaches have been tried by biologists as well as computer vision researchers. This is an interdisciplinary area and the computer vision community has an important contribution to make. They suggest that there is a need for publicly available datasets with ground truth annotations to enable the evaluation of new approaches and to support the building of training data for modern data-driven computer vision approaches, which are those most likely to result in the kind of fully automated systems that will be of use to biologists.

AB - The authors present a comprehensive overview of image processing and analysis work done to support research into the model flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Beside the plant's importance in biological research, using image analysis to obtain experimental measurements of it is an interesting vision problem in its own right, involving the segmentation and analysis of sequences of images of objects whose shape varies between individual specimens and also changes over time. While useful measurements can be obtained by segmenting a whole plant from the background, they suggest that the increased range and precision of measurements made available by leaf-level segmentation makes this a problem well worth solving. A variety of approaches have been tried by biologists as well as computer vision researchers. This is an interdisciplinary area and the computer vision community has an important contribution to make. They suggest that there is a need for publicly available datasets with ground truth annotations to enable the evaluation of new approaches and to support the building of training data for modern data-driven computer vision approaches, which are those most likely to result in the kind of fully automated systems that will be of use to biologists.

KW - image sequences

KW - botany

KW - biology computing

KW - computer vision

KW - image segmentation

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/2160/44002

U2 - 10.1049/iet-cvi.2016.0127

DO - 10.1049/iet-cvi.2016.0127

M3 - Article

VL - 11

SP - 113

EP - 121

JO - IET Computer Vision

JF - IET Computer Vision

SN - 1751-9632

IS - 2

ER -