Colloquium: “AI for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of plants” by Mike Pound – Computerphile/ University of Nottingham, May 8th 2025, Bonn
We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming colloquium on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Our speaker is Dr. Mike Pound, Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, UK, and well known from the YouTube channel Computerphile.
The talk will take place at 4:15 PM in Lecture Hall XVI, Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Nussallee 17, 53115 Bonn.
Title:
AI for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction of plants
Abstract:
Reconstruction of 3D plant models can offer advantages over traditional 2D approaches by more accurately capturing the complex structure and characteristics of different crops. While high-performing hardware-based approaches like LiDAR exist, competitive software algorithms have proven harder to develop. Recently, view synthesis models have begun to appear that can generate detailed 3D scenes, and even 3D models, from only RGB images and camera poses. In this talk, I will outline some of these new approaches to 3D reconstruction: Neural Radiance Fields and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). These are data hungry approaches, and I will talk about our recent work to produce multi-view datasets of wheat plants captured over time. Large image sets can offer a useful test bed on which to develop new approaches to reconstruction and 3D plant phenotyping. Building on this, we will look at the production of synthetic datasets, and whether we can combine new 3DGS techniques with generative AI models to produce new and varied 3D models that also look realistic. Finally, we will consider the future of 3D reconstruction, and where we might look to improve over the coming years.
Kontakt
Prof. Ribana Roscher
Analyzing and interpreting plant observation data on all scales with data science
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences (IBG)
- Plant Sciences (IBG-2)
Room 305