Modeling of Plant Growth and Scientific Visualization
Compact Course
Date: May 10-11, 14-15, 2012 (4 days)
Place: Seminar Room : EG-043, BioQuant, INF 267, 69120 Heidelberg
Time: 10:15 - 12:15 and 14:00 - 16.00
Lecturer
Somporn Chuai-Aree (Meng)
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Faculty of Science and Technology.
Prince of Songkla University, Pattani Campus.
181, Muang, Pattani, Thailand 94000
email : schuaiaree@gmail.com
website : http://www.somporn.net
Plant growth modeling is a challenging topic involving multidisciplinary aspects such as computer science, computer graphics, computer simulation and visualization, mathematical modeling, etc. It plays a big role in agriculture and industry. This course provides information from the basic level of structural and functional plant growth modeling to the advanced level for plant growth simulation.
The course consists of the following topics:
- Lindenmayer systems (L-systems)
- particle transportation system
- growth function
- plant growth simulation
- leaf vein generator
- root growth simulation
- leaf shape recognition using artificial neural networks
- plant growth measurement using image processing and region growth method
- visualization method in plant growth
- PlantVR software
L-systems are used to represent the plant structure. The classes of L-systems such as deterministic and stochastic L-system are described in the course. The particle transportation method (PTM) is used to simulate the leaf vein and plant structure. The course will show some examples in each topic and open research problems.
Registration
In order to give us more information for organizing the compact course, please send an email to "schuaiaree@gmail.com", with subject "Join Plant Course", and say your fullname, faculty/department, and what your interests or you can register here.
Recommendation (Bring laptop with you for afternoon session)
Since we provide the practical session in the second part of afternoon session, we would like to suggest you to take your laptop with you, and the softwares are only working on Windows Operating System. It would be nice if you can bring it, but in case you do NOT have your laptop with you, you are also welcome to participate the course.
Schedule of the Course
| Date and Time | Time : 10.15-12.15 Talk and Discussion | Time : 12:15-14:00 | Time : 14:00-16:00 Talk and Practice | Remark |
| 10.05.2012 (Thursday) | Motivation, problem in plant science, Structural and Functional Plant Modeling, L-systems and examples | Lunch | L-systems, growth function and plant growth, L-systems softwares and practical session | Bring your computer and try the example of L-systems (Test it on your laptop),
Download LSLab.zip Download Slide-Part1 |
| 11.05.2012 (Friday) | Plant growth and root growth simulation, nutrient diffusion, water flow in soil and nutrient/water uptake, inverse problem of L-systems, Particle Transportation Method (PTM) | Lunch | Leaf vein generator, LeafVein software, Branching Reconstruction Software and practical session | Bring your computer and Download software Download LeafVein.zip Download LeafVein Video Manual (80 Mb) Download BranchRecon.zip Download BranchRecon Video Manual (112 Mb) Download Slide-Part2 |
| 14.05.2012 (Monday) | Leaf shape recognition using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Image Processing | Lunch | Application softwares and practical session | Bring your computer and Download software Download LeafDS.zip Download LeafDS Video Manual (73 Mb) |
| 15.05.2012 (Tuesday) | Plant growth measurement and visualization method in plant growth | Lunch | PlantVR software and practical session | Bring your computer and Download software Download PlantVR.zip Download PlantVR-Lsystems Video Manual (122 Mb) Download PlantVR-PTM Video Manual (142 Mb) Download PlantVR-Nutrient Video Manual (61 Mb) Download Slide-Part4 |
Somporn Chuai-Aree Dissertation
More information
You can find more information from the website http://www.somporn.net.
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