Modeling the three-dimensional (3-D) shape of plant stems is important in the study of plant growth in precision agriculture. To construct a 3-D model of real plant stems from images quickly, a novel volumetric method based on line-based models is proposed. Line-based models are constructed on the coarse 3-D skeleton of the plant stems, then carved with respect to silhouette consistency. The surface points on the plant stems are calculated from line-based models. Finally, a mesh surface model can be extracted from the surface points. The proposed method can give precise results together with l...
