用可组合的4D神经场建模植物生长,能处理器官异步发育和拓扑变化。
GrowFields: Compositional 4D Neural Fields for Topology-Changing Plant Growth

- 将植物分解为器官,各自对齐到标准坐标系,分离生长与整体运动。
- 在四个物种上测试,相比现有方法,几何精度提升18.3%,追踪更准确。
- 适合做植物生长动态分析的研究者,尤其关注器官级演化过程。
从稀疏的纵向3D观测中量化植物生长动态是农业与植物科学的基础。但植物具有独特挑战:经历复杂非刚性形变,新器官出现时拓扑结构改变,且由于新生组织导致连续数据采集间缺乏明确时间对应关系。通用场景方法难以应对植物特有的拓扑变化与异步器官生长。为此,我们提出GrowFields,一种基于点云序列的器官感知4D植物生长建模的组合式动态神经场表示。该方法将植物分解为组成部分器官,并将其分别对齐至各自的规范坐标系,以分离内在生长模式与整体运动。随后学习一个共享的连续神经变形场,用于建模所有器官间的时序动态,条件依赖于可学习的器官级隐变量编码,捕捉器官身份与生长特性。所得模块化而统一的表示自然适应器官异步发育,同时契合器官级植物追踪的实际设置。我们在四种植物物种的生长序列上评估了该方法,使用人工标注的叶尖轨迹评估几何拟合与器官追踪精度。结果表明,在空间精度、时间连贯性和形态保真度方面均显著优于多种现有表示方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Quantifying plant growth dynamics from sparse longitudinal 3D observations is fundamental for agriculture and plant sciences. Yet, plants pose unique challenges: they undergo intricate non-rigid deformations, exhibit changing topology as new organs emerge, and often lack explicit temporal correspondences between consecutive data acquisitions due to newly formed tissue. Methods designed for general scenes struggle to model topology changes and asynchronous organ growth characteristic of plants. To address these challenges, we introduce GrowFields, a compositional dynamic neural field representation for organ-aware 4D plant growth modelling from point cloud time series. Our approach decomposes a plant into its constituent organs and aligns each organ into its own canonical coordinate frame, isolating intrinsic growth patterns from global plant motion. We then learn a shared continuous neural deformation field that models temporal dynamics across all organs, conditioned on learnable per-organ latent codes capturing organ identity and growth characteristics. The resulting modular yet unified representation naturally accommodates the asynchronous development of plant organs while remaining grounded in the practical setting of organ-level plant tracking. We evaluate GrowFields on growth sequences from four plant species, assessing geometric fitting and organ tracking accuracy using manually annotated leaf-tip trajectories. Results demonstrate consistent improvements in spatial precision, temporal coherence, and morphological fidelity over a range of existing representations.
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