Evaluation of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Plant Reconstruction. McAfee, A., Pluck, T., Dahyot, R., & Lacey, G. In Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP 2025), pages 26-29, Ulster University, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 2025.
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Code doi abstract bibtex 3 downloads Accurate 3D reconstruction of plants is essential for applications in precision agriculture, phenotyping, and plant health monitoring. Traditional methods such as LiDAR or Structure-from-Motion often struggle with complex plant topologies or require complex sensing hardware. Recent advances in neural rendering, particularly 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have shown promise in efficiently capturing fine-grained plant details. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of 3DGS on a new dataset of seven plants, each comprising approximately 500 multi-view images. Results demonstrate that 3DGS effectively reconstructs complex plant structures and is a suitable visual aid for plant phenotyping experts.
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title = {Evaluation of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Plant Reconstruction},
author = {Aaron McAfee and Thomas Pluck and Rozenn Dahyot and Gerry Lacey},
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year = {2025},
pages={26-29},
abstract = {Accurate 3D reconstruction of plants is essential for applications in precision agriculture, phenotyping,
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with complex plant topologies or require complex sensing hardware. Recent advances in neural rendering,
particularly 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), have shown promise in efficiently capturing fine-grained plant
details. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of 3DGS on a new dataset of seven plants, each comprising
approximately 500 multi-view images. Results demonstrate that 3DGS effectively reconstructs complex
plant structures and is a suitable visual aid for plant phenotyping experts.},
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