Publications
Tracking Growth and Decay of Plant Roots in Minirhizotron Images
| Author | Gillert, Alexander; Peters, Bo; Lukas, Uwe Freiherr von; Kreyling, Jürgen; Blume-Werry, Gesche |
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| Date | 2023 |
| Type | Conference Paper |
| Abstract | Plant roots are difficult to monitor and study since they are hidden belowground. Minirhizotrons offer an in-situ monitoring solution but their widespread adoption is still limited by the capabilities of automatic analysis methods. These capabilities so far consist only of estimating a single number (total root length) per image. We propose a method for a more fine-grained analysis which estimates the root turnover, i.e. the amount of root growth and decay between two minirhizotron images. It consists of a neural network that computes which roots are visible in both images and is trained in an unsupervised manner without additional annotations. Our code is available as a part of an analysis tool with a user interface ready to be used by ecologists. https://github.com/alexander-g/Root-Tracking |
| Conference | Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2023 |
| Isbn | 978-1-6654-9346-8 |
| Publisher | IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS) |
| Project | DigIT! |
| Url | https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/440443 |
